Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry expresses disappointment with LSU missing out on ‘Bowl Championship Series’
By David Wasson
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has experienced quite the newsworthy week, inserting himself first in 2026 LSU football ticket prices, then into the firing of coach Brian Kelly and then creating a ruckus with comments about both Kelly’s reported $54 million buyout and recently sacked athletic director Scott Woodward.
Landry wasn’t quite done, though, as he welcomed one and all into LSU’s 3-ring circus of dysfunction by somehow forgetting the past 12 years of playoff football while expressing dismay that the Tigers are no longer eligible for the “Bowl Championship Series” – a construct that disappeared in 2013.
“How is the program progressing? What are we winning? Are we winning SEC Championships? Are we winning national championships? Are we getting to the Bowl Championship Series? Those are things that say the team is winning. We would not be having this discussion at all had LSU not be having the season that it is,” Landry said on After Further Review with Matt Moscona. “The chance of getting to the Bowl Championship Series at this point is pretty null. It’d be great if they did, but think about it. If we would not have lost that game or lost one game right now in the SEC we wouldn’t be talking about that because Brian, Coach Kelly wouldn’t be having a problem.”
To review: LSU does not have a school president, an athletic director, a head football coach or an offensive coordinator (Joe Sloan was fired Monday, a day after Kelly was canned) but does have a sitting governor more than a decade behind the times on how LSU can win a national championship.
Surely Landry’s comment was simply a gaffe, but it perfectly sums up what has been a wild week in Baton Rouge.
[H/T Awful Announcing]
An APSE national award-winning writer and editor, David Wasson has almost four decades of experience in the print journalism business in Florida and Alabama. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several national magazines and websites. His Twitter handle: @JustDWasson.
