LSU Football: 3 bolds predictions for Tigers vs. Texas in Week 2

2. Joe Burrow’s hot streak continues

For most of the 2018 season, Joe Burrow was ordinary. He didn’t seem to be the long sought after answer for the Tigers at quarterback that they have sorely been searching for over the last decade.

After struggling in a 29-0 loss to Alabama, Burrow caught fire over the last four games of the season. He completed 67 percent of his passes, averaged 291 yards per game passing (a mark he had only reached one time in the season’s first nine games), and tossed 10 touchdowns to only a single interception. All of that culminated in an excellent performance in LSU’s Fiesta Bowl victory over UCF where Burrow shook off an early pick-six — and a nasty hit from a Knights defender — to lead LSU to a New Year’s Six win.

Burrow picked up right were he left off on Saturday against Georgia Southern, throwing for 278 yards and five touchdowns in the 55-3 blowout win. Burrow finished with more touchdowns than incomplete passes, producing the most efficient night of his collegiate career. Will he be able to continue his efficient turn against a loaded Texas secondary?

Texas’ safeties figure to provide all sorts of problems, but if LSU can find some one-on-one matchups with their talented crop of receivers against the Longhorns corners, then Burrow should find some advantageous windows to throw the ball in.

It’s difficult to bet against Burrow at this point, and with the likelihood that LSU struggles to the run the ball for the second week in a row, the senior signal-caller is going to have to come up huge for the Bayou Bengals to walk out of Austin victorious.