LSU historic underdog for defending champs 2020
It's tough for anything to be perfect in 2020. The Steelers are 11-0, but if you saw them struggle to put away what amounted to the Ravens' JV team on Wednesday, you can see that even they have flaws. The same is true for the other organizations at the head of the Super Bowl race. The defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs are 10-1 and the Saints are 9-2, but they both lost to a Raiders team that just got blown out by the 4-7 Falcons. On the right day and with the right matchup, just about any team in the NFL can beat anybody else. Let's try to identify the toughest matchup for each of the four top Super Bowl contenders in each conference and pick which team all eight might want to avoid in January. In doing so, I'm going to examine the weakness each of these near-playoff locks are going to carry with them into January. Teams can overcome those issues, as we saw with the Chiefs a year ago, but bad matchups helped lead to early playoff exits for teams such as the Ravens a