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LSU Tigers Return To Top 25

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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When the LSU Tigers lost on the road against Auburn, they completed a drastic fall out of the rankings after starting the year as a consensus top five team. Earlier today, the newest edition of the college football AP Poll was released, and the Tigers are back in it. LSU makes its return to the top 25 at the 25th and final spot.

The team struggled mightily for the first four games of the season, and that led to the firing of long time head coach Les Miles. Ed Orgeron was named the team’s interim head coach, and he urged the voters to scrap the past and view the team’s final stretch as a new season.

It appears that is exactly what the voters at the Associated Press have done.

In the “new season” for the LSU Tigers, Orgeron’s team has beaten a conference opponent in Missouri by a whopping final score of 42-7. They also picked up a win at home this past Saturday night with a 45-10 throttling of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles.

LSU is one of the most talented teams in all of college football, and that showed early on when they were ranked very highly to open the year. The new coaching staff has done a great job of taking advantage of that talent and putting their players in positions to succeed, and the voters clearly notice how much the team has improved.

The Tigers would have a tough time getting back into contention for the College Football Playoffs, but the team is still very much alive in the conference. LSU still has Ole Miss, Alabama, Texas A&M, Arkansas, and Florida on their schedule, so a conference title appearance is not totally out of the question. That five game slate will also give LSU a chance to move up from its 25th spot in the rankings.