Brian Kelly was informed late Sunday afternoon that he has been let go as Head Coach of LSU. The Tigers have had a very underwhelming season after being very high in pre-season odds to win the national championship LSU sits unranked with 3 losses before November. The third Tigers loss and the one that ended Kelly’s tenure was a 49-25 blowout loss at home to number 3 Texas A&M. Prior to Saturday’s loss LSU had lost to 17 Vanderbilt and to 13 Ole Miss, those three losses brought Brian Kelly’s record at LSU vs ranked teams to 4-11, and when you factor in who those teams he beat, it’s not very impressive outside of a win in 2022 at Alabama. Since that win, Kelly had gone 2-9 against ranked opponents; those two wins were a 21-ranked Missouri team in 2023 and a Clemson team in Week 1, who has been even more underwhelming than Penn State this season. Kelly left LSU with an overall record of 34-14. LSU also fired offensive coordinator Joe Sloan on Monday morning. Kelly marks the third major Power four school to fire a coach in the last three weeks joining James Franklin and Billy Napier of Penn State and Florida. Kelly’s buyout of 53 Million surpasses James Franklins buyout from just two weeks ago as the second largest in college football history.
LSU had a top 5 offense in college football last season, and while they added to that while keeping QB Garrett Nussmeier, who was a Heisman favorite, the defense was the biggest question mark heading into the season, and through 8 games in 2025, it has been one of the best defenses in the SEC with the offense seemingly forgetting how to play football. The season could continue to get worse for LSU as they travel to a red hot Alabama team after the bye than they go to Oklahoma in Week 14 to cap off the season.
Week 9 was absolute chaos.
Vandy got their first win as a top ten team in 55 years as they took down 15 Missouri 17-10. Vandy still has a few ranked games on the schedule to end the year, they travel to 20 Texas next week and then to 15 Tennessee to end the season.
Texas had a wild comeback win in Starkville over Mississippi State winning 45-38 in OT, Texas would score the final 31 points of the game, including 24 in the 4th quarter.
Houston stunned Arizona State to make the Big 12 even more chaotic. The Big 12 now has 5 teams that could realistically win the conference, being BYU, Texas Tech, Cincinnati, Houston, and Utah, with a handful of these teams playing each other in the last month of the year, things are going to get crazy. College Gameday is finally showing love to the Big 12 as they are traveling to Utah where the Utes host Cincinnati and their red-hot offense. Cincinnati is coming off a blowout win over Baylor.
Virginia survived an OT scare at Bill Belicheck’s UNC keeping their ACC title hopes alive. Miami has to sit and watch as they hope either Georgia Tech or Virginia slips up which would give the Canes a road to the Championship game.
Ole Miss finally put a game away as they picked up a huge win on the road at Oklahoma. Down 24-10 in the fourth quarter the Sooners would storm back and take the lead 26-24, Ole Miss would then score 10 straight points and win it 34-26. A huge win for Lane Kiffin.
Memphis upsets USF shaking things up in the American which is all over the place. Currently Navy leads the conference but there are 7 teams with 1 or less loss in conference play, Navy, North Texas, East Carolina, Memphis, Tulane, USF, and Temple. The American will sort it’s self out with Navy and North Texas playing this week as well as ECU and Temple.
It was a quiet week in the Big ten outside of Washington smoking 24 Illinois 42-24. Michigan retained the Paul Bunyan trophy with a dominant 31-20 win in East Lansing against Michigan State.
Week 10 Slate
Penn State at 1 Ohio State
9 Vanderbilt at 20 Texas
Navy at North Texas
18 Oklahoma at 14 Tennessee
17 Cincinnati at 24 Utah
My Top 25
- Ohio State
- Indiana
- Texas A&M
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Oregon
- Ole Miss
- Vanderbilt
- Georgia Tech
- BYU
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Texas Tech
- Cincinnati
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Louisville
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Houston
- Memphis
- USC
- Navy
- Utah
