Brian Kelly should have left well enough alone.
His No. 8 LSU football team had just marched in Fayetteville and given Arkansas by far its worst loss of the season, a 34-10 drubbing that drowned out any fledgling idea for a major bowl game that any Razorback fans might have had in the aftermath of a big upset against Tennessee two weeks before.
The win, LSU’s sixth of the year, also guaranteed a cool $500,000 bonus for their carpetbaggin’ leader. That’s “by far the largest bonus payment available to a public-school coach for becoming eligible for a bowl game that does not involve a contract extension” according to USA Today.