LSU Ranked Preseason #3 by Blue Ribbon Magazine

It's pretty obvious that most people around college football think LSU is going to be pretty darned good this season.

Blue Ribbon Yearbook, perhaps the most comprehensive pre-season football magazine to be found, has put the Tigers at #3 in their preseason ranking.

That's the good news.

The bad news is, they're behind Alabama.

Oklahoma was rated first, followed by the Tide.  LSU was third, then Stanford.  LSU's opening opponent, Oregon, checked in at #5.

Four other SEC teams, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi State, also made the preseason top 25.