An electronic billboard along I-10 near College Drive this week featured an enormous picture of Garrett Nussmeier’s head next to the words: “Trust the Team.”

The job of advertising is selling, but someone has to be buying.

Right now, very few folks in these parts are trusting the team at LSU.

Twin rivers of gloom and doom came together over Baton Rouge like an invisible confluence this week, belying the blue skies that dominated the week which belied the freight train of rain expected here Saturday night.

It never rains in Tiger Stadium? Pure myth. Right now, it’s more like when it rains it pours.

Two losses in LSU’s past three games have pushed the Tigers’ season of audacious roster spending and sky-high expectations to a premature brink. Lose Saturday to No. 3 Texas A&M (6:30 p.m.,

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