David Pollack Names College Football Team That Should Be ‘Jacked Up’ After Week 1
August 31, 2025
3,633
The first Saturday of a full slate of college football games came and went with some big surprises.
One of them was No. 1 Texas and Arch Manning losing to No. 3 Ohio State, 14-7. Another was No. 4 Clemson falling to No. 9 LSU, 17-10, despite Dabo Swinney’s team having home-field advantage.
It was a battle of two Heisman Trophy candidates at quarterback, but Garrett Nussmeier and LSU got the better of Cade Klubnik’s Clemson team this time around.
On Saturday night, college football analyst David Pollack went live on X with some reactions from Week 1, and he said LSU should be “jacked up” after the huge win.
Florida v LSU BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA – NOVEMBER 11: Head coach Brian Kelly of the LSU Tigers reacts against the Florida Gators during a game at Tiger Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Baton Rouge,… Florida v LSU BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA – NOVEMBER 11: Head coach Brian Kelly of the LSU Tigers reacts against the Florida Gators during a game at Tiger Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
“LSU was dominant, man. God, I was blown away with LSU. I mean, the Tigers should be jacked up,” Pollack said. “The LSU Tigers should be jacked up for what they saw Week 1 out of their squad.”
Clemson had a 10-3 lead going into halftime, but LSU scored the tying touchdown in the third quarter via a Caden Durham 2-yard run.
Then, Nussmeier threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Trey’Dez Green that ended up being the game-winner.
Klubnik, Clemson’s star QB, went just 19-of-38 for 230 yards with no touchdowns and an interception in a disappointing Week 1 effort.
More news: North Carolina’s Bill Belichick Lands Wild Deion Sanders Comparison
After the game, Kelly spoke about being able to limit Klubnik, via the Associated Press.
“I think getting him out of the pocket and primarily got him out of rhythm,” Kelly said. “I thought we did that very, very well and we took his running game away. Any quarterback that doesn’t have a running game, it becomes predictable and we had some predictable down the distances because they couldn’t run the football.”
LSU had more passing, rushing and total yards than Clemson, and Kelly’s team came out of the gates with a statement win and a huge one to add to its resume going forward.
LSU plays against Louisiana Tech in Week 2 before a showdown against Florida on September 13 in Baton Rouge.
For more on college football, head to Newsweek Sports.
Um die besten Erfahrungen zu bieten, verwenden wir Technologien wie Cookies, um Geräteinformationen zu speichern und/oder darauf zuzugreifen. Wenn Sie diesen Technologien zustimmen, können wir Daten wie das Surfverhalten oder eindeutige IDs auf dieser Website verarbeiten. Die Nichteinwilligung oder der Widerruf der Einwilligung kann bestimmte Merkmale und Funktionen beeinträchtigen.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
