Before the 2018 college football season started, most sports reporters and commentators picked LSU to win six or seven regular season games.

Even Las Vegas had them a seven-win team in 2018.

With a schedule littered with the likes of Miami (Fla.), Auburn and Florida on the road, Georgia, Mississippi State and the defending national champions Alabama in Baton Rouge and finishing the regular season on the road versus Texas A&M, you could fully understand their thinking.