.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS LAS VEGA-- Brian Kelly pounded his left hand adverse the press conference table so hard his water bottle nearly knocked down over.After No. thirteen LSU kept a four-point top along with merely under six minutes left behind in its own season opener and also shed 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday night, Kelly failed to keep back when discussing his disappointments." Our team had some guys play their buttocks off tonight as well as our experts're resting right here again, our company are actually sitting right here again speaking about the exact same traits!" Kelly mentioned as he banged the dining table. "Regarding certainly not polishing when you possess a rival in a position to put them away. But what our experts are actually carrying out on the subsidiary is believing that the activity ends." Kelly claimed this is actually the first time throughout his LSU tenure that he has been actually "furious" at his team as well as included that it did not have a "awesome intuition."" I am actually therefore mad regarding it that I've got to find a solution for it. I'm not doing an adequate task as an instructor," Kelly said. "I have actually reached instructor all of them much better considering that it's improper for our company certainly not to have actually found a method to succeed this football video game. It's foolish. It is actually outrageous." Regardless of totaling 421 yards of outburst and also managing the time of possession by six mins, Kelly's crew stopped working to exploit. Their initial travel of the video game journeyed 74 gardens on thirteen plays in over 7 mins, but it led to zero points. Though they trailed for most of the first fifty percent, LSU had the capacity to order the top two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Associated" Unfortunately, it is actually very clear that, when our company get up in an activity, our team perform not recognize exactly how to handle our own selves," Kelly said. "You have actually got to place staffs away. Our company possessed an opportunity to place this team away. Our team acquire unconcerned, our experts create more blunders when our company're in advance as opposed to having a, you understand, far better concentration and a steely eyed great inclination. That's disappointing." To Kelly's point, the Tigers possessed 10 penalties for 99 gardens to the Trojans' six, as well as a couple of took place in turning points. On USC's game-winning drive, a targeting penalty on LSU put the Trojans inside the red zone, where they without delay racked up with 8 seconds left.It wasn't merely fines that place LSU in a placement to find up short. The Tigers' ground game additionally struggled. Earlier in the full week, LSU repulsive lineman Will definitely Campbell had actually pointed out the Tigers would certainly jog the round against the Trojans." That is actually certainly not one thing we're making an effort to keep peaceful," Campbell mentioned Tuesday. "I'm telling everyone immediately. Our experts're going to manage the football." By the edge of the night, nonetheless, LSU had only 117 gardens on the ground and also must depend on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to fuel the outburst. Nussmeier nearly did, throwing for over 300 lawns and also two touchdowns, but after recording the consent TD in the 3rd quarter, LSU's outburst delayed and also permitted USC's new-look self defense under coordinator D'Anton Lynn to always keep the Trojans in the game along with several key third-down ceases." They had every right to be positive," USC coach Lincoln Riley pointed out of LSU's offending line. "However so did our experts. Our company merely didn't talk about it in the media." Of the thirteen 3rd downs the Tigers encountered, they converted a to begin with down simply 5 opportunities. After they slashed a permission touchdown in the 3rd one-fourth, the following four LSU pushes led to pair of puntings, a field goal and also an interception through Nussmeier that closed the end result." For us to be the type of football crew I yearn for, our experts must remove the crazy errors," Kelly pointed out. "Lastly, our team must have the ability to participate in off of each other much better.".