Brian Kelly didn’t pound the table after Saturday night’s game against Louisiana Tech like he did after last season’s opening loss to USC in Las Vegas.

LSU did win, after all, to go to 2-0. But if you put the 101,000 people here in Tiger Stadium under oath, the vast majority of them would have been forced to admit they didn’t think that would be the case.

But the LSU coach sure looked like he wanted to take a bit out of some particle board furniture after his Tigers’ underwhelming 23-7 victory over the feisty but overmatched Bulldogs.

This was a strange game. LSU never truly was in danger of being upset by the five-plus touchdown underdogs from Ruston. But the final score won’t impress a college football nation suddenly agog over LSU after its 17-10 upset victory at Clemson to open the

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