LSU Football: Do Tigers have enough talent to repeat in 2020?

After the dream season for LSU football in 2019, what can this year’s group do for an encore? Is there enough talent to repeat as national champs?

After one of the most dominant seasons in college football history, Ed Orgeron and the LSU Tigers have their sights on 2020 and becoming the first repeat champions since Alabama in 2012.To do that they’ll need to replace a lot of talent from arguably the best roster we’ve ever seen.

Looking at the 2019 Tigers’ resume it’s hard to argue that they weren’t one of the best teams ever, a 15-0 record, 7-0 against top 10 teams, outscored Georgia, Oklahoma and Clemson 142-63, they had Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award, O’Brien Award, Biletnikoff and Jim Thorpe Award winners and 11 All-SEC honorees.

A few months later, the 2019 Tigers tied the record for most players drafted with 14 guys making the jump to the NFL, including five in the first round. If that’s not an all-time team, I don’t know what is.

Replacing that much star power in a shortened offseason is going to be an extremely tough job. Losing just the first round guys would sink a lot of programs for at least one season, but then adding another nine more players to that list makes this a near impossible task.

There’s only a few programs in the country who could rebound and still compete after this kind of mass exodus, and LSU is one of them.