LSU insider Derek Ponamsky breaks down Tigers, SEC West race

Key quotes from Derek Ponamsky interview

"I think LSU will be a better team than they were last year. They were 8-5 last year and laid an egg in the bowl game.They scored 28 points, got 500 yards of offense which in any other game during the season would be enough to win. I do think there were distractions. I do the assistant coach interviews for the pregame show and I was scheduled to interview John Chavis, so I showed up to the hotel in Nashville and I knew something was up then. This was Sunday night. So you get a little bit further down into it on game day (Monday) and the entire pregame show was about how this was going to happen.