Chip Kelly: It’s Hard To Tell If We’re Good. LSU Lost To Mississippi State Last Year.

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There’s a new kind of wizard in Westwood. This one wears a visor, is at times brutally honest and maybe finally has himself a good football team.

But don’t tell him that. No, no, don’t do that.

“It don’t mean s--- on Monday,” he says.

This is one game, one week. Remember last season, when Mike Leach and Mississippi State opened the year by beating this same LSU team in Baton Rouge? Remember that, he asks?

“I watched the game and I was like ‘Holy smokes!’ Look at Mississippi State, they just knocked off the national champs,” he says. “I looked it up. They lost their next four games.”

It was the Pac-12 team that wore down the one from the SEC. The Pac-12 team created wide running lanes for its tailbacks and hounded the opposing quarterback. The Pac-12 team burned the clock and milked away the game. It popped explosive plays against busted coverages (at least four completions of at least 35 yards). It had two running backs shatter the 90-yard mark and it, the Pac-12 team, pushed around the SEC team up front.

“We never talked about it,” Kelly says. “It wasn’t the Pac-12 against the SEC, because they didn’t bring Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama. Thankfully, my God.”

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