... College Football Countdown continues Friday. We'll be counting down the preseason Top 25 teams in 2010. Today's No. 16 is LSU.

Though the SEC West appears to belong to Alabama again this year, LSU, Auburn, and Arkansas will slug it out for second place.

There are two things that give LSU the slightest of edges in this race: Jordan Jefferson and a defense full of hungry new starters ready to continue the LSU tradition on that side of the ball.

Jefferson in this preseason is hardly being hyped as a game-changing quarterback, but one thing to remember is that his 2009 stats (2,166 passing yards, 17 TDs, 7 INTs) were just fine.

It was his mental game that tripped him up. Tentative, indecisive, throwing the ball away ...

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