When LSU hired Brian Kelly away from Notre Dame, there were a lot of questions about whether he would fit in with everyone else in the SEC. It didn’t ease anyone’s opinions when he used his ‘southern accent’ in one of his earliest interviews with LSU.

Since then, all Kelly has done is sign a top-10 recruiting class and lead LSU to an 8-2 record and a spot in the SEC Championship for the first time since 2019. Scott Woodward has been the athletic director at LSU since 2019 and before that, he was the AD at Texas A&M. He was the athletic director that hired Jimbo Fisher from Florida State.
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