‘I had a hard time watching it’: Brian Kelly reacts to LSU’s dominant victory after being fired
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Brian Kelly was let go as the head coach of the LSU Tigers football program in the middle of last season after he failed to find the sort of success either he or the university envisioned when he came to Baton Rouge after a long stint as the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
In the first game of the Lane Kiffin era, the Tigers dominated the Clemson Tigers from start to finish, winning 51-10. After being asked about his thoughts on the game in a video call with College Sports on SiriusXM, Kelly was brutally honest about his feelings.
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“I’ll be honest, I had a hard time watching it, “Kelly admitted, “but I don’t think it was just LSU. It was just the first weekend truly of college football, and it was hard. Like, you know, you’ve been doing it for, you know, 35 years, and not to be part of that process— uh, my wife, she wanted to kill me. She’s like, ” What’s wrong with you?’ And what was wrong was that I wasn’t on the sideline, and it was, you know, I had to deal with it and, and, and get through it.
What did Brian Kelly think of LSU’s dominant Week 1 victory over Clemson?
“I’ll be honest, I had a hard time watching it.” pic.twitter.com/teMxR7yBch
— College Sports on SiriusXM (@SXMCollege) September 10, 2026
“But, you know, there’s no mistake. LSU looked great. And, you know, obviously it’s a little bit of both, right? Was Clemson maybe not as good as we thought? And certainly LSU was, was on fire, and that showed in the game. So props, props to LSU. They played great.”
As tough a time as he might’ve had watching the Tigers from afar, Kelly did admit that he thought they had a championship-caliber defense.
“I think what I walk away from in watching the game is, is some of the things that I struggled with in the last year is that we did not run the ball efficiently,” Kelly said on The Early Read with Danny Kanell and Roy Philpott on Sirius XM. “I thought they (LSU) ran the ball extremely well. And I know Blake, I hired Blake Baker, the defensive coordinator. I thought their defense looked every bit as a national championship defense, in the pieces that he has. So I guess we all know this, right? We’ve been around it. If you have a great defense and you can run the football, everybody’s working on the other pieces, right?
“Nobody’s a complete football team. And I think those are the two things that I take away. I love what the defense looks like and the running game being really effective is really gonna bode well for this football team to be in it when we get down to the last few teams.”
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