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So joining me now, we got a new voice here on the podcast.

Koki Riley covers the Tigers for the daily advertiser and for USA Today Sports, the South region.

Koki, you know, a year ago, sort of the same situation for LSU.

They were one in one coming into this game.

At the time, we didn't know that Florida State was a really good team.

At the time, we didn't know that LSU was going to go on to win the West.

We know Florida State's a good team this year.

So at one-and-one, what's the mood in Baton-Ruge after two games?

That's a really good question.

I'd say there's, um, man, um, I, I, I honestly think that the mood is probably a little less pessimistic than it was a year ago.

I think part of that's just because, again, like you mentioned, last year, we didn't really know how everything was going to work out with the Florida State loss.

We didn't have a full year of Ryan Kelly to observe when it comes to his time at LSU.

And I think there are definitely concerns with this team.

I think people are concerned about the first few drives at the Grand League State game this past week.

I think people are concerned about some of the run defense that they've shown this season.

Harold Perkins is positioning. The secondary, a lot of these are defensive issues, as you notice.

Jaden Daniels, like there are all these question marks. But with the Alabama loss, with the Texas A&M loss,

with some of these other things that happened in week two, it's hard not to look at the schedule

and look at this team and still say that, hey, you know, if they can improve in a couple spots

and just play a little bit better than obviously than they did against

Florida State. This team could certainly still win the West. So I'm kind of of of that mind at the

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