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No. 14 LSU braces for high-octane South Alabama and coach who knows Tiger Stadium
The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — No. 14 LSU’s game with surging South Alabama features one coach who played Louisiana high school football and grew up going to Tiger Stadium against a coach from Boston who didn’t move down South until he was 60 years old. Baton Rouge native Major Applewhite will be the visitor in his old home town, and the Jaguars first-year coach knows exactly what to expect when he faces Brian Kelly’s Tigers in Death Valley on Saturday night.
Ahmad Breaux fed on fast food in the summer, now he’s leading a youth movement on LSU’s defense
Ahmad Breaux enrolled at LSU early in January and spent the spring working at DE. But because the Tigers were short on defensive tackles, Breaux was asked to beef up so they could move him to DT.
Matt McMahon tips off LSU's 2024-25 season
On paper, this is the most talent Matt McMahon has accumulated in his time in Baton Rouge. The Tigers welcome seven new players to the program for the 2024-25 season to combine with the six returning pieces from a year ago. After an NIT appearance a year ago, LSU wants to take that next step as a program and that's the NCAA tournament. Over the next 42 days before the season opener, there are many steps this team must take to get off to a fast start but McMahon believes in the pieces put together this offseason.
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