Mathieu's coverage issues were never more apparent than v. Alabama in the BCS National Championship Photo: US Presswire

When you have two great and deep teams like LSU and Alabama play in the BCS National Title game it almost has to be one of the first games you take another look at in order to stat scouting for 2013. What we found in our very early opinion is that while Alabama may actually be better in 2012, so could LSU.

The only reason we say could is because while Alabama has proven players at just about every position where they lost somebody, LSU has a massive question mark at QB where they pray rising junior QB Zach Mettenberger can fit the bill. While Mettenberger didn’t play in this game plenty of his 2012 teammates did.
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