LSU football is becoming the top program on the national recruiting scene

No one reaches recruits quite like LSU football.

If someone asked you the top national brand in recruiting, would your answer be LSU football?

It probably should be, because I don’t think there’s a hotter program in the nation right now than the one that resides in Baton Rouge.

After a 15-0 season that included a blowout national championship victory against Clemson, it was inevitable that LSU would be a hot team on the recruiting trail.

But when you combine the Tigers’ incredible 2019 season with the fact that LSU had 14 players selected in the 2020 NFL Draft, then you have a recipe for a recruiting giant unlike anything the sport has ever seen before.

LSU wins on the field, they send players to the NFL, and they might have the best family atmosphere in college football.

What more could a recruit want?

That’s why we’re seeing LSU reach kids that are from towns nowhere close to Louisiana.

Is LSU football developing a pipeline to Washington?

You can’t get farther away from Baton Rouge in the continental United States than the state of Washington.

So it’s a bit odd to see a litany of elite recruits from the Evergreen state showing serious interest in LSU.

But that’s exactly what’s happening.

2022 four-star offensive linemen Malik Agbo and Josh Conerly are both from the same area near Seattle and both are interested in LSU.

“We (Agbo and Conerly) were talking about all the schools and when LSU came up we were like, ‘That’s a pretty good school to go to. They’ll take you to the next level,” said Agbo this week to Rivals.

2021 offensive guard Owen Prentice, also from the Seattle area, is another four-star recruit that’s showing strong interest in LSU.

Prentice told 247Sports this week that LSU, along with Stanford and Washington, is in his top three schools.

At this point, it seems as though LSU has their pick when it comes to recruiting. This can be a blessing and a curse. It’ll put the Tigers’ recruiting evaluation skills to test because it means Ed Orgeron and his staff will have to turn away some really good players.

But that’s a problem a lot of schools would probably love to have.