Maybe LSU football is better equipped to reload that we thought?

What if LSU football is actually good enough to win it all again in 2020?

The 2019 LSU football team was legendary, but what are the odds the 2020 team could be special, too?

What the LSU Tigers did on the football field was nothing short of remarkable. With Joe Burrow leading the way as their Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, the Bayou Bengals went 15-0, crushing seemingly every team they faced en route to their fourth national title in school history. Though they could repeat in 2020, most will argue they lost too much talent from last year’s team.

However, according to SportsBetting.ag, LSU has the second-best odds to win the SEC West at +300 and the fourth-best odds to win the SEC Championship game at +650. With only the Alabama Crimson Tide seemingly ahead of them in the division and the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs possibly looking better than them out of the SEC East, maybe LSU has reloaded after all?

Could LSU football win back-to-back national titles with a new group?

There’s no denying this year’s LSU team will not be anywhere as good as the team from last season. That was an all-time great team, right up there with the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes and the 2004 USC Trojans. However, LSU wouldn’t need a historically great team to win the SEC again and contend for a national title. A good team would suffice.

The most interesting thing about these latest odds is LSU has emerged ahead of the Auburn Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies as the presumptive second-best team in the SEC West after only Alabama. With the amount of talent returning to Tuscaloosa, it makes all the sense in the world the Crimson Tide would be the pre-season favorite to play Georgia in Atlanta in December.

While in the back of your mind you probably knew that LSU was better than Auburn or Texas A&M to start the season, to see them with considerably better odds of getting to Atlanta is a pleasant sign for the Bayou Bengals. We know they’re going to be good, but to be twice as likely to get to Atlanta than Auburn and three times as likely to get to Atlanta than Texas A&M is jaw-dropping.

Though Burrow and several other important pieces have left the program, Ed Orgeron remains in Baton Rouge and he looks to have reloaded marvelously this offseason. He replaced passing game coordinator Joe Brady with Scott Linehan to help out Steve Ensminger on offense. While Dave Aranda now leads the Baylor Bears, a familiar face in Bo Pelini is back running the LSU defense.

These are two fantastic (and quite frankly overqualified) coaches for these roles. Regardless, both will complement the great culture Coach O has built at LSU in the last half-decade. However, the big key if LSU has any shot at repeating is if Burrow’s successor Myles Brennan can be a top-three passer in the SEC. He has the talent, but he’s also facing some stiff competition around the league.

Florida has Kyle Trask, Georgia has Jamie Newman, Texas A&M has Kellen Mond, Mississippi State has K.J. Costello and Auburn has Bo Nix. Those are five starting quarterbacks each team should feel confident about trotting out there every fall Saturday. Brennan could be as good as any of them, possibly better, but that has to be proven on the field every single week.

The latest title odds indicate LSU may have reloaded more seamlessly than we even realized.

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