College football 2018: Biggest Achilles’ heel for every Top 25 team

18. LSU

Achilles’ heel: As always, offensive questions

Remember that time that Matt Canada was supposed to be the savior of the LSU Tigers offense? Man, that was a fun less-than-two years, wasn’t it? Now Canada is gone and the Tigers are once again left with questions about what this offense is going to look like. Is it just going to be more of the same of head coach Ed Orgeron having too much of a say in the play-calling and schemes, or is he to be believed about instituting more of the spread?

What’s worse for the Tigers is that these questions about the offense are simply about the guys who are making the calls from the sidelines, not the guys who are putting things into motion between them. And unfortunately for the Tigers, there are questions there as well. As always, those questions start at the quarterback position, where they have struggled mightily to find any semblance of stability in recent years.

The hope is that Ohio State transfer Joe Burrow can come in and win the job and then turn things around at that position. But then again, do we really know enough about Burrow at this point to even remotely bank on that happening? My guess would be that we don’t.

When you then factor in the loss of Derrius Guice, the issue for LSU coming into 2018 is an old sad song. They could have an elite defense that can hold anyone to under 10 points — but they could have an offense incapable of scoring 10 either.