‘The SEC is loaded again’: Brian Kelly trying to prepare LSU

The LSU Tigers do not have a lot time to lick their wounds from the season-opening loss to USC or rejoice the bounce-back win in opposition to Nicholls in Week 2.

Brian Kelly’s crew has a Week 3 matchup with South Carolina, which is 2-0 and has already picked up its first in-conference win of the season because of a 31-6 blowout of Kentucky on the highway final weekend.

The Gamecocks are harmful, and LSU does not have the posh of trying forward. Nonetheless, nothing goes to return simple within the SEC this season. If the Tigers can get previous South Carolina, video games in opposition to Ole Miss, Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and Missouri nonetheless loom massive on the schedule.

“Yeah, the SEC is loaded once more,” Kelly mentioned on “The Paul Finebaum Present” on Monday (h/t On3’s Nick Kosko). “Look, I believe we knew proper from the very starting that this 12 months, greater than possibly any that I can bear in mind, that there wasn’t only one crew. There are some nice groups on this league. There’s little doubt. I imply, you continue to acquired to undergo Georgia, however Texas has proven itself clearly now as a brand new member, Alabama goes to be formidable.

“However Ole Miss and what they’re doing early on, you understand, Tennessee’s had an excellent win. That is the depth of this league. It’s (what makes) this one of the best league within the nation, and so every week goes to be a slugfest and now look. I imply little previous LSU and little previous South Carolina are enjoying and other people don’t even care about it, however these are two fairly good groups too so we’ll see what occurs on the finish of the day.”

Though Kelly tried to downplay the matchup between the Tigers and Gamecocks, it’s value noting that ESPN’s “Faculty GameDay” might be dwell on campus in Columbia, South Carolina, for the sport.