Brian Kelly: 'The SEC is loaded again'

Brian Kelly didn’t hide his thoughts on the depth of the SEC this season. LSU (1-1) opens SEC play against South Carolina this weekend.

The big dogs, like Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss are regulars. Texas is a newcomer, but Kelly couldn’t help but mention them among the contenders.

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Once again, it’ll be another grind for the Tigers, starting this weekend.

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“Yeah, the SEC is loaded again,” Kelly said on The Paul Finebaum Show. “Look, I think we knew right from the very beginning that this year, more than maybe any that I can remember, that there wasn’t just one team. There are some great teams in this league. There’s no doubt. I mean, you still got to go through Georgia, but Texas has shown itself obviously now as a new member, Alabama is going to be formidable. 

“But Ole Miss and what they’re doing early on, you know, Tennessee’s had a great win. This is the depth of this league. It’s (what makes) this the best league in the country, and so each week is going to be a slugfest and now look. I mean little old LSU and little old South Carolina are playing and people don’t even care about it, but these are two pretty good teams too so we’ll see what happens at the end of the day.”

Brian Kelly knows how good the SEC is, again

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Kelly and LSU will have a lot of eyes Saturday at South Carolina. ESPN’s College GameDay is set to host its pregame show live on campus.

In fact, in preparation for Kelly and the Tigers, South Carolina’s Shane Beamer is keeping his team focused on the task at hand. He actually didn’t even know the pregame show was coming to town, if it weren’t for the DirecTV dispute.

“I was on the plane and my wife had talked to somebody that knew somebody that knew somebody,” Beamer said. “One of those type things. She said, ‘I think you’re getting GameDay.’ I’m like, ‘huh? You think that or you know that?’ She kind of told me what she had heard. I found out as we were getting ready for land. I pulled my phone out of my bag and we hadn’t even hit the ground yet. I was trying to find scores of some conference games because this freaking ABC or DirecTV and Disney dispute is killing me.

“We fly Delta and they’ve got DirecTV, so I couldn’t watch any of the games on the TV on the back of the seat. I really didn’t want to log into WiFi and all that stuff. So I was watching the NBC we could pick up. We need to get this DirecTV dispute figured out, please. As I picked up my phone, I was scrolling through social media and it came up before we hit the ground, So right before we landed is when I found out.”