Todd McShay reacts to NIL investment by LSU, potential to win SEC

LSU enters Year Four under head coach Brian Kelly with national championship-or-bust expectations, as the Tigers seek the program’s return to the College Football Playoff for the first time since winning it all in 2019. Suffice it to say, it’s been a long five years for fans in Baton Rouge.

That championship appetite led Kelly and company to dive head-first into the NCAA Transfer Portal this past offseason, supplementing an already-talented LSU roster with the nation’s second-ranked transfer class, according to the On3 | Rivals Team Transfer Portal Rankings. That included adding four-star SEC receivers Nic Anderson and Barion Brown, from Oklahoma and Kentucky, respectively, as well as four-star EDGEs Patrick Payton from Florida State and Jack Pyburn from Florida among the Tigers’ 18 transfer newcomers.