LSU added 44 players this past offseason through the NCAA transfer portal.
The Tigers proved Saturday night that they weren’t exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel.
A new-look roster under first-year coach Lane Kiffin turned the college football world on its side by pulverizing Dabo Swinney’s proud Clemson program 51-10. The resounding win by Kiffin’s Tigers transpired just two days after the Southeastern Conference filed a lawsuit in Alabama against Kiffin, LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry and LSU president Wade Rousse for waging “a deliberate and coordinated campaign to recruit professional athletes to play football for LSU during the 2026-27 season.”
LSU wound up not putting any players with pro experience on its roster for Saturday’s opener and then went out and showed they have more than enough talent already in Baton Rouge.
“That was a really good job by our players with all the questions about how they will be with what most people think are distractions,” Kiffin said early Sunday morning during his press conference after the weather-delayed game. “They did a great job. They played a quality ACC team, screwed up the first series, gave them the ball and three points, and then went on a 51-0 run after that.