Kelly furious after loss to USC: 'It's unacceptable'

LSU head coach Brian Kelly slammed his fist in anger during a postgame presser as he rued the Tigers' season-opening 27-20 loss to USC on Sunday.

"We're sitting here again talking about the same things, about not finishing when you have an opponent in a position to put them away," Kelly told reporters. "But what we're doing on the sideline is feeling like the game's over."

LSU held a 17-13 lead until USC quarterback Miller Moss' 28-yard touchdown pass put the Trojans ahead. While the Tigers would knot the game at 20, USC won on a game-winning touchdown with just eight seconds remaining. Kelly called the defeat "unacceptable."

"And I'm so angry about it that I gotta do something about it," Kelly added. "I'm not doing a good enough job as a coach, and I gotta coach them better because it's unacceptable for us not to have found a way to win this football game. It's ridiculous."

LSU will try to regroup Saturday when it takes on Nicholls at 7:30 p.m. ET.