Guaranteed Win for Fighting Tigers
By Jeff Thomas
New Orleans sports fans were asking, “Has it ever happened before?” With visons of bragging rights and first ever, local fans hoped the Saints would win the Superbowl in the same year LSU won the college football national championship. But alas those pesky Vikings ruined those dreams and now fans turn their attention to the LSU Clemson Championship game Monday night.
Both teams have explosive offenses and strong defenses. Clemson is the defending national champion and has won 29 straight games. The Clemson football program is the most dominant in college football for the last 5 years, having appeared in 4 of the last 5 championship games. Their coach, Dabo Swinney, is a master motivator and has assembled a great staff to help teach and guide their players. In fact, Dabo Swinney is the best coach in college football today. From recruiting to winning games, nobody has done it better than Swinney over the last decade.
But this is a super team that LSU is fielding. Led by Heisman Trophy winner, Joe Burrow, the Bayou Bengals are a true juggernaut. That huge overwhelming force, LSU football, includes the best skill players in college football. From the nation’s best wide receiver corps led by Jamarr Chase to the ever churning legs of running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, LSU’s powerful offensive line protects Burreaux who can tuck it and run when necessary. And the nation’s top paid assistant coach, Dave Aranda has an ascending defensive unit that has adjusted to the quick scoring offense and become mentally tough to keep dominating in games that LSU has raced out to an early big lead.
The Clemson Tigers and their stout defense are the biggest challenge the LSU Tigers have faced all season. Meanwhile Trevor Lawrence, Clemson’s QB, will be the first player drafted next year once he becomes NFL eligible. This game will be no blowout. Clemson will stop LSU and score. But LSU has seen the blueprint on how to stop Clemson. Ohio St. corralled Travis Etienne, the great Clemson running back and LSU has the DB’s to cover Clemson’s receivers one on one. But Clemson will only be able to contain this high powered LSU offense and LSU’s defense will have a few more stops than Clemson’s defense.
So, while Saints fans still wonder how Drew and ‘dem lost to an inferior opponent, LSU fans will rejoice as their Fighting Tigers celebrate in New Orleans and win going away 48-27 over the Fighting Tigers from Clemson.
Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
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Publisher — Black Source Media
Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
Selected Articles by Jeff Thomas
Black Neighborhoods Pay the Highest Insurance Rates in Louisiana. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
They Didn’t Yell the N-Word. They Went to Law School, Bided Their Time, and Rewrote the Constitution Instead.
Vappie vs. Morrell: Why Does Justice Look Different in New Orleans?
The State Has the Money. New Orleans East Just Needs Them to Use It.
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu