1-0.

That’s all you heard during this offseason concerning LSU football. That’s all you saw around the football complex.

There was a 1-0 sign on the big video board at the indoor practice facility. There were 1-0 signs in the weight room. And there were the purple 1-0 T-shirts LSU players wore during pregame warmups at Clemson on Saturday, all designed to hammer home one critical point:

Find a way to start the season with a victory for the first time since 2019.

Mission spectacularly accomplished. No. 9 LSU got the 17-10 win at No. 4 Clemson in the first true top-10 road opener in LSU football history. It’s only LSU’s second season-opening top-five win, joining a 2011 win by No. 4 LSU over No. 3 Oregon 40-27 in Arlington, Texas.

Everyone, including this writer, questioned Brian Kelly’

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