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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] LSU Defeats Clemson 51-10

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Clemson 3 0 0 7 10
LSU 17 14 13 7 51
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u/TechnoToyz Texas Tech Red Raiders • Team Chaos 2d ago

Damn, LSU looks really really good. Alternatively, Clemson looks like shit. Could be both.

WMU defeated Michigan in football by a score of 12-7 on September 5, 2026.

u/milehigh73a LSU Tigers • Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 2d ago

It’s likely both. LSU hasn’t scored 52 against a p4 since 2023. We dominated every aspect of the game. But Clemson looked dead at the same time.

u/AchillesShort Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2d ago

The biggest concern, and this goes for most portal heavy teams not just LSU, was seeing if the team gelled well together. After this game it seems to be the case.

But yeah, people in the thread talking about how the Dabo era being over haven't been paying attention for a while. Not downplaying the win but I think most Top 15 teams would look like LSU did tonight vs this Clemson team. So I think it's still a wait and see when LSU faces a real team, but as someone that's super skeptical about transfer heavy, I'm less skeptical now. That was a very solid performance.

u/milehigh73a LSU Tigers • Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 2d ago

I was worried about coming together too. And our o line. Clemson is a real opponent though. They aren’t as good as most of our conference schedule but I doubt they lose another game by 41. And yes most any top 15 team would have easily won.

But lsu really did dominate and I haven’t seen that since 2019.

Ole Miss will be the real indicator but I had most of my worry of a 7 win season evaporate.

u/Doctor_King_Schultz Clemson Tigers 2d ago

“I doubt they lose another game by 41”. Might not be quite that many but Miami is going to push our shit in thoroughly.

u/dalaylana LSU Tigers 2d ago

Clemson was ranked what, 26 or 27 preseason? Obviously these rankings aren't worth that much, but this was pretty similar to beating a barely top-25 ranked team by 40.

u/Guest1__ Alabama Crimson Tide 2d ago

The Top 25 after about 15 is pretty much just a random assimilation of 10 teams from a pool of about 25 potential teams and is always a big drop off from 1-15. Still a great win but typical of a top 10 team at home vs an unranked opponent.

u/dalaylana LSU Tigers 1d ago

Oh I don't disagree with you, but its not the same as beating up on a team that's ranked in the bottom half of the power ratings like some people are out here claiming.

u/Guest1__ Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago

Yea I mean they’re power 4 which is better than who 90% of teams yesterday played. Clemson probably beats most of the teams everybody else played by 30.