I could spend another 500 words waxing poetic about Alabama after the Tide crushed the spirit of LSU last Saturday. That would be an easy task. But there will be many more opportunities to pat ’Bama on the back this season.

Instead, it may be more interesting to come up with a way for LSU to truly get back to being an elite program. While the Tigers were the No. 3 team in the 2018 initial Playoff rankings, we all knew that was shaky at best.