The 2025 college football season kicks off under a cloud of questions—hot seats, playoff dreams, and uncertain futures. Yet for now, college football programs are setting aside the scoreboard and focusing on something far bigger: touching hearts. In Texas, 20 programs united, placing green ribbons to honor the lives lost in the devastating July floods. Across the Gulf, Brian Kelly ’s LSU Tigers showed the same spirit, paying tribute to a courageous alum fighting cancer. Whether Kelly’s future on the sideline is secure or not, his team’s actions have already won the admiration, making the alum’s family their biggest fan.

The LSU head coach might be juggling too many things at the moment. After all, he now faces himself in the mirror, after giving the ultimatum, “Judge me after three yea

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