LSU football bowl projections: Is LSU projected to make College Football Playoff?

BATON ROUGE — Don’t look now, but LSU football is perched near the top of the Southeastern Conference standings.

A team picked to finish fifth in the SEC in the preseason, the No. 7 Tigers (6-1, 3-0 SEC) are undefeated in conference play and sit second in the standings behind No. 14 Texas A&M (6-1, 4-0), another team that the media did not see as a factor in the preseason and also who LSU will battle for the top spot in College Station on Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC).

As the rest of the SEC has torn each other apart, with Georgia beating then top-ranked Texas last weekend, Alabama with two losses in conference play before November, but also has a win over Georgia to start. And Tennessee losing at Arkansas a couple of weeks ago, Brian Kelly and the Tigers have remained steady.

LSU opened the season a fringe College Football Playoff contender. After eight weeks and a 6-1 start, have the Tigers pushed their way into the CFP picture? Let’s see what analysts think with bowl games projections.

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LSU football bowl game projections

Is LSU projected to make College Football Playoff?

The Tigers have won six straight games and are vying for a spot in the SEC Championship Game. But the vast majority of bowl projections do not have LSU making the 12-team CFP field.

Athlon Sports, USA Today and the Action Network’s Brett McMurphy see LSU locking up one of the at-large spots in the playoff but those are the only three outlets that have the Tigers in. Athlon Sports has LSU as the 10-seed going to No. 7 Penn State in the opening round. McMurphy predicts LSU as a No. 9 seed playing at No. 8 Clemson.

Only USA Today projects LSU to the…

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Publish date : 2024-10-23 09:02:57

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