A&M puts up 36 points per game and LSU's defense, that ranks 26th in the country surrendering just 312 yards per game, will have to find a way to slow down Aggie quarterback Marcel Reed and comapny down without its best defensive player in Whit Weeks, who will miss the game with a bone bruise on his right ankle.

Interim LSU AD Verge Ausberry is making a bold College Football Playoff claim after Scott Woodward and head coach Brian Kelly are out.