LSU moves to 3-0 with less than 'appealing' win over Florida - ESPN

BATON ROUGE, La. — No. 3 LSU's 20-10 win over Florida began with a pregame scuffle between players from both teams and ended with fireworks from LSU coach Brian Kelly, who defiantly defended the style of his team's victory.

The Tigers' dominant defense never allowed Florida quarterback DJ Lagway to get comfortable and intercepted him five times, holding their third straight opponent to 10 points or fewer. The LSU offense, meanwhile, scuffled its way to 316 total yards, including 96 rushing — 51 of which came on LSU's final offensive play before it went into victory formation, when Caden Durham broke free down the left sideline on 3rd-and-1 with 1:49 left to ice the win and keep the Tigers undefeated (3-0, 1-0 in SEC).

Florida fell to 1-2, 0-1 in conference.

Afterward, Kelly said the game was «one of the SEC classics» and foreshadowed his mindset by praising punter Grant Chadwick, who averaged 50.4 yards per kick and pinned the Gators inside the 20 four times.

«Sorry that that doesn't sound appealing to you folks, but I really don't care,» Kelly said. «We're trying to win football games.»

The first question he got was about his offense, and Kelly didn't wait for it to finish before going on the offensive. «Stop. Really?» Kelly said. «Is that the first question? We won the game 20-10. Try another question. What do you want me to tell you? I just laid it out for you. We played the game to win the game.»

He batted away a second question about his third-down offense and a third about the struggles of the running game. He went right back to Durham's run, when the Tigers lined up in an I-formation when everyone knew they were going to hand it off.

«We can run the ball. Did you see the last play of the game? That's all you need.