SEC Football: 5 incredibly early bold predictions for the 2023 season
By John Buhler
3. Brian Kelly has an all-time meltdown after LSU narrowly misses out on College Football Playoff
I don’t know if it will be sadder than Nick Saban going through the five stages of grief in real time on Big Noon Saturday, but we are going to see Brian Kelly in rare form come Selection Sunday. Had they have beaten Georgia in Atlanta, the LSU Tigers would’ve made the four-team field, no matter what. But let’s just say that maybe they are on the outside looking in at being Dawg food in 2023.
They may have one loss, they may have two, but all I know is LSU is going to end up somewhere in the No. 5 to No. 7 range in the final playoff rankings once the four-team field is set. Sure, they will welcome the opportunity to play USC or someone else in the Cotton Bowl, potentially facing the traditional rival Greenies for that old rag of theirs. But anywho, Kelly will make his presence felt…
This will be at least 10 times worse than him grinding up on Walker Howard to get him to commit, maybe three times as bad as his fake Cajun accent. He is just getting started at LSU, but for the first time in his coaching career, the SEC bias will not be in his favor. I don’t know who LSU is losing to that they could not afford to do so, but they did, and there is not a lot that Kelly can do about it.
We are all going to look bad on that one bad loss LSU had this season and wonder why it occurred.