Texas Football: 3 teams Longhorns should be above in Coaches Poll

1. LSU Tigers

The most interesting case here in the preseason Coaches Poll compared to Texas football was saved for last. LSU nabbed the No. 6 spot in the Coaches Poll, and it does seem a little too high. There are a lot of people in the college football landscape that are too high on the former Ohio State transfer quarterback Joe Burrow.

LSU is coming off a solid finish to the 2018 season that saw them upend a UCF Knights team that was without star quarterback McKenzie Milton. Yet, LSU lacked the big time wins down the stretch last season that most teams would need to have to be ranked this high coming into fall camp.

While LSU did beat Mississippi State and Georgia in the middle of the 2018 regular season, it fell short against Alabama and Texas A&M in two of the final four weeks. LSU also didn’t get the chance to prove itself ahead of the pivotal Week 2 showdown against the Longhorns by facing a quality Power Five opponent in a New Year’s Six Bowl last season.

The SEC bias ran rampant in the preseason Coaches Poll. There were six SEC teams ranked in the top 16. Behind Texas remained Texas A&M and the Auburn Tigers. Although the SEC bias did start to die down beyond No. 16, where the Big Ten and PAC-12 schools started to emerge, it was bad ahead of that spot.

I can’t deny the talent that LSU brings back on the defensive side of the ball led by junior safety Grant Delpit heading into 2019, but there are too many offensive question marks.