LSU fans, living up to their hard-earned "insane and resourceful" reputation, have apparently spent the week circulating Knowshon Moreno's cell number via e-mail before the Tigers' host Georgia Saturday. If it was original, maybe, that would be funny, or something, on top of annoying and disrespectful to Knowshon. But LSU has tried that trick before, on Tim Tebow before Florida came to Baton Rouge last year, and all it got them was a taunting mime from Tebow after the Gators' first touchdown. If it's even true, two years in a row seems a little desperate.

That might be fitting for this game, actually. For one-loss teams with all of their tangible goals still in front of them, both LSU and Georgia seem like teams fighting for their lives. In both cases, the one loss is much more defining than any of the wins: neither Les Miles nor Mark Richt had ever been beaten like they were beaten by Florida and Georgia, respectively, and as the value of their once-marquee wins over Auburn and Arizona State withers by the week, there's surprisingly little on the field two months into the season to back up the elite ambition here.

That's probably a little bit more true for LSU, which has done almost literally nothing as well as it did last year: based on national ranks, the Tigers have improved so far in punt returns (thank you, North Texas) and protecting the quarterback, and nothing else. The biggest gap, not surprisingly, is quarterback, which at Jarrett Lee's current pace (five interceptions in four SEC games) might not be completely settled by the end of the year. If Georgia's third-ranked run defense holds up as well as Florida's did against LSU's massive line and forces Lee (or Andrew Hatch, whose Hallmark moment to date is stumbling around after being concussed by Auburn) to do most of the damage, it certainly won't be settled by early evening.

On paper, the Bulldogs should be better -- or at least on par with LSU -- at every position on the field, with the key exception of the offensive line, where Georgia remains impossibly young and ailing. That was true going into UGA's debacle against Alabama, too. Whatever national ambitions the Tigers still have left after the Florida nightmare probably depends on that matchup: its depth and athleticism on the defensive front has to make Moreno a non-factor, and make Matt Stafford feel its presence in near Boeckman-like fashion. Otherwise, the flickering hope of catching 'Bama in the West is pretty much snuffed.