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Brian Kelly is never one to hide his feelings, and on Saturday night after his surging LSU team took apart Arkansas 34-10 in Fayetteville, he told everyone what he thought about the Razorbacks scheduling the 8th-ranked Tigers as their homecoming game.
“I know this was homecoming. I’m sure [Texas A&M] will schedule homecoming next week there against us, too,” Kelly said in the postgame press conference. “It just seems like we get everybody’s homecoming. So, maybe next year they’ll think about maybe not making us homecoming anymore.”
Brian Kelly: "I know this was homecoming. I'm sure [Texas A&M] will schedule homecoming next week there against us, too. It just seems like we get everybody's homecoming. So, maybe next year they'll think about maybe not making us homecoming anymore."
— Ethan Westerman (@EthWestNWA) October 20, 2024
Whatever the reason Arkansas scheduled its old rival as its homecoming game, LSU was a very rude guest. The Tigers took a 10-0 lead after the 1st quarter, saw the Razorbacks creep within 16-10 early in the 3rd quarter, then got busy in burying Arkansas by scoring the game’s final 18 points to cruise to the victory, their 6th in a row after a season-opening loss to USC.
Meanwhile, Arkansas fell to 4-3 after its not-so-fun homecoming loss.
Kelly’s Texas A&M reference was to LSU’s Week 9 showdown against the 14th-ranked Aggies in College Station. Whether that’s Texas A&M’s homecoming or not, we do know it’ll be a huge SEC game between 2 teams that lost their opener and have since won 6 in a row to get to 6-1.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
