Kind of glad we struggled with Arkansas, because I bet Georgia does the exact same thing that they did. Pinned those edges deep and force JD to beat 8 man coverage.
The question is if we can someone how adjust and beat it successfully. I do worry about our secondary versus Georgia.
UGA D-Line is better than Arkansas, I don't see UGA loading the box up with 8, UGA defense is just fast all around.
(my bad, you said 8 man coverage)
LSU is going to have to score more than 17 points. Even with UGA starting off slow, I still think their offense can put up 30 plus on LSU's defense. The question becomes, will LSU be able to score that many points and IMO, no. Bama's defense is young and somewhat not as good as UGA.
I can see Kirby confusing Daniels, with coverage blitzes. Again, will LSU offense be able to covert 3rd downs and put-up points?
LSU best bet (to me) is for UGA offense to start off slow, LSU defense has to make it an ugly game, somewhat like how they did with Arkansas. Arkansas doesn't have the players as UGA, that's a night and day situation.
I can see Vegas easily giving LSU 17 points, hell maybe even 20 knowing that LSU is not or should not put up 20 or more points on UGA and UGA can easily put up 40 plus on LSU.
I'm thinking a 24-6 halftime score, then a 41-13 or 41-17 win by UGA..
But again, anything can happen, LSU will have to win the Time of Poss game and not have Turnovers.