This is an IHeart podcast.

And just like that, we're back.

It's another edition of the Latekick Extra podcast.

I'm Josh Pate.

It's Tuesday morning, as I record at least, July 13th, the Year of Our Lord, 2021. I'm just going to try it a different format this morning. Here's what I'm going to do. I want to get into the first question within 30 seconds. It's wall-to-wall, college football mailbag, by the way. And then I got just a whole bunch of news to mix in with a really, really deep mailbag. So let's dive in and we're just going to

mix up the chit-chat throughout. Clayton starts us off. I remember, towards the end of last year,

you mentioned how LSU's roster was in disarrayed due to transfers, graduates, allegations.

You mentioned how it seemed beyond repair. Now they have, according to you, a championship caliber roster and are,

according to you, one of the most dangerous teams in the country. Well, what changed? What did LSU do to go

from disarray to championship potential between December 2020 and now? Well, Clayton, on one sense,

all that changed is you took the etch-a- of sketch and you moved the little cursor from left to

right. And for those of you unfamiliar, that just erases everything that you can see. Let me emphasize

that last little phrase there that you can see. So what we saw last year in December, since you brought

up December, was five and five. That was the record, Clayton. So now we fast forward. And what have

we done? Well, we've moved the cursor and we've erased it. So it goes from 5 and 5 to 0 and

zero. Now, let's go through your question. You said, all of a sudden I called them a championship

caliber roster. Well, I do agree with that. Well, obviously, I agree with what I said. But what I'm

telling you is the maximum capability of that roster is

that of winning a championship. If their quarterback situation gets figured out, if they get plus

to really, really good quarterback play, elsewhere, there aren't a ton of deficiencies. Offensive

line maybe, but even that's relative. And so when you look at the defensive back talent,

when you look at the wide receiver talent, when you look at the defensive front, that's a team that's capable of contending for a national championship, which is why I say they have a championship caliber roster. And the way I phrased it is, I don't see a ceiling on LSU. The ceiling is literally they could win a title. But I've also said in the same breath, there's not a floor on them. Now let's go to the ugly potential

...