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BATON ROUGE -- As if rehearsing the pep talk he would later give the team, LSU Coach Les Miles said Monday the Tigers must realize they are in an enviable position.
"I can tell you right now I'd like to talk about what we are, not what we just lost," he told the media gathered at his weekly address. "And I think what we are is one helluva football team."
Footnotes weren't required for Miles comments, which came before a planned team meeting Monday afternoon. What was lost last Friday in a crushing 50-48 triple overtime defeat at home to Arkansas was the steering wheel on a drive toward a national championship. No one would have passed then-No. 1 LSU had the Tigers beaten the Razorbacks and then won the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday in Atlanta.
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