BATON ROUGE - LSU head coach Brian Kelly spent a good portion of his game week presser talking about the preparation that has been put in to get to this point where his Tigers will open their season against Clemson in South Carolina later this week.

Kelly and Tiger fans everywhere are hoping that it's more than preparation, that this year it will translate into execution because there are plenty expectations on this team as the Tigers are looking to get back into the college football playoffs.

"We’ve been working on this since January, after our Baylor win in the bowl game, we went to work on our roster, our process in developing this football team," Kelly said of the laborious effort to get to this point.

"When we get to these moments it's (about) having a team that is confident, that

See Full Page