Well we're officially a fortnight away from the 2024 season beginning. Let's talk shop. What's your best case and worst case scenario for this 2024 LSU team?MaxBest case, 10-2 and 8-10 seed in the CFP. I think they have the talent on offense to do it if things break right. Defensively, the unit has yawning roster holes, but a blitz happy, boom-bust defense may lead to https://www.lsusportsapparel.com the kind of negative playturnover variance that can steal you a game that last year's team would not have had a chance to win. PoseurBest case? LSU doesn't play Georgia, the only superteam still standing, so... well, undefeated. The last few years has sort of broken our brains on what it takes to compete, but really, no team looks unbeatable anymore. Michigan won a national title with a roster roughly as talented as LSU's this year, and as long as you don't have to beat Georgia in the regular season, 12-0 is on the table for one of, say, ten most talented rosters in the country. which LSU certainly is. BenI can see there being a path to LSU going 12-0 thanks to the toughest games being home games, but I think best case is 10-2 or 11-1 with a weird tiebreaker keeping LSU out of the SEC Championship and a spot hosting a CFP first-round game. This happens if the offense and defense show up to where they need to be. If the defense becomes good, not necessarily great, and the offense stays the course, LSU can turn either the Alabama or Ole Miss game into a more likely win. The worst case scenario is if neither thing happens. I don't need to rehash what the 2023 defense looked like because it stings far too much. If LSU's offense, which lost a lot more than just Jayden Daniels, doesn't do what it needs to and regresses with Nussmeier under center, things get scary. My worst case scenario is 6-6 with losses to both USCs, Ole Miss, Texas AM, Alabama and Oklahoma. I don't think it's likely, but it's where things would stand.SaulBest case is an 11 or 10 win season and Nussmeier is something close to Daniels Burrow. Brian Kelly made needed wholesale changes to the defense and paired with a great offense, a potentially special tight end and emerging receivers, a 10 win season seems most likely. Contrastingly, a no teeth defense and Nuss failing to crack into the upper tier of SEC QB's and we could be looking at 8-4 plodding of a season, that brings in questions of Kelly's future hopes in Baton Rouge.DeeYears ago, when I first started reading ATVS, my favorite articles were about Delusional Optimism. I'm here to pick up that banner and run with it. Best case for LSU is always winning it all. Even with our worst teams, I've seen us do amazing things and hang in there against teams that were, theoretically, way out of our league. We've seen early, unprecedented success in Women's Basketball and Baseball- why not Coach Kelly and Football? The ingredients are there, the passion is there, and Delusional Optimism should always be there.Worst case scenario... 8-4. We know the defense had a lot of work to do, and while the early reports out of spring practice sound promising, the bar was in hell thanks to Matt House. We also lost a lot of talent on offense, and a lot will depend on whether this class is ready now, or needs a year two in order to develop.KyleThe best and worst-case scenarios for LSU going into 2024 are drastically different. On one hand, you have a lot of promising playmakers and a revamped defense that can lead you to 10-2. On the other hand so many question marks the team could lose 5 games and there wouldn't be much surprise. ZachI'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else. Best case I think LSU make it to Atlanta thanks to a somewhat favorable schedule, gets into the College Football Playoff as a 7 or an 8 and from then it's anybody's guess. The best offensive line in the country is able to impose its will on everyone LSU plays, Garrett Nussmeier's first year as a starter is better than Joe Burrow's 2018 or Jayden Daniels' 2022, Kaleb Jackson emerges as the best back LSU's had since Leonard Fournette, and the whole of LSU's defense ends up being better than the sum of its parts.To me LSU's worst case scenario looks like a near shot-for-shot remake of the 2023 season except a slightly worse offense and only a marginally improved defense. LSU still goes 9-3 but instead of losing to Ole Miss 55-49 they lose 31-27. Nussmeier, understandably, takes a little while to get acclimated to being a starting QB, CJ Daniels struggles to make the leap from the G5 to the SEC, Chris Hilton once again gets hampered by injuries, and Kyren Lacy can't handle being a true No. 1 receiver. As for the other side of the ball I could see LSU's glaring holes at defensive tackle and https://www.lsusportsapparel.com corner catch up to them, while the 2022 special teams gaffes make an unwelcome return and cost LSU a game.EvanIn this new 12-team playoff era, the ceiling for LSU will always be a playoff appearance. I think it might be a stretch this year with so many new faces on offense and a completely revamped defense, but it is a transitional year for the sport. It would be a perfect time for chaos.