BATON ROUGE (AP) — New LSU coach Brian Kelly enters the first season of his 10-year contract facing the type of rebuilding project the unranked Tigers haven’t seen in decades.
The last time LSU entered a season outside the AP Top 25 was the late summer of 2000 — when the Tigers had a new coach named Nick Saban.
LSU wound up going 8-4 that season, a sharp improvement from 3-8 in 1999. By the end of t…
