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LSU announces game times for first four games of 2022 season

ns_headshot_2024-clearby:Nick Schultz•05/26/22•

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The Brian Kelly Era at LSU gets started Sept. 4. Thursday, the Tigers announced some more kickoff times for the first month of the 2022 season.

The Tigers will take on Florida State in the Week 1 game Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. In Week 2, LSU will take on Southern at Tiger Stadium at 7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network before a huge SEC showdown with Mississippi State in Week 3. That game kicks off at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN. LSU will then close out September against New Mexico Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET on either SEC Network+ or ESPN+.

It’ll mark Kelly’s first season with LSU after he left Notre Dame this offseason. With the Fighting Irish, he became the winningest coach in program history with a 113-40 record.

Las Vegas releases LSU win total odds, set at 7.5 for 2022 season

Following two disappointing seasons after reaching the summit of college football as undefeated national champions, LSU football is under new management with Brian Kelly taking over, and Las Vegas is predicting that the Tigers over/under win total for the 2022 season is set at 7.5.

Kelly knew that stepping into Baton Rouge, despite his immense success at Notre Dame, would be an uphill battle. In the two seasons since their national title, LSU has gone 11-12 overall — less than the 15 wins that star quarterback Joe Burrow and company compiled in 2019.

“I think like anything else, the first thing you do is you take a look at where are the things that need to be supported immediately,” Kelly said. “You know, clearly the past two years were not to the standards of LSU. They were a .500 football team coming off a national championship. Now, there’s always mitigating factors and everything, but clearly my charge was to come in here evaluate what needed to be looked at, and in a lot of instances, it’s just raising standards.

“It’s just expectations needed to be re-communicated. Organizational health in terms of expectations, roles, responsibilities, needed to be redefined, and just get back to the basics really. Attention to detail, thinking the right way about how we prepare, getting in there and developing, you know, that kind of standard, that kind of culture on a day-to-day basis.”