LSU's final AP, Coaches Poll rankings for 2022 season
The LSU football team capped off head coach Brian Kelly’s first season in Baton Rouge with a 63-7 win over Purdue in the Citrus Bowl.
The victory moved the Tigers to 10-4 in a season highlighted by winning the SEC West and facing the eventual National Champions in Georgia at the SEC Championship in December.
On Tuesday, LSU landed at No. 15 in the final Coaches Poll and No. 16 in the final Associated Press Top 25.
The Tigers finished as the fourth-highest ranked Southeastern Conference team in both polls. The AP Top 25 ranked Georgia No. 1, Alabama No. 5 and Tennessee No. 6.
LSU’s marquee win came over a top five Alabama team in an overtime game in November, while three of the four losses came to program’s ranked inside the Coaches Poll Top 10 nationally at season’s end (No. 1 Georgia, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 10 Florida State).
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The 10-win season was the 18th time in program history that a season resulted in double-digit wins. It was the seventh time in program history that LSU made the SEC Championship.
The No. 15 and No. 16 rankings were LSU’s first appearance in the final Top 25 since the National Championship season in 2019. The Tigers finished 5-5 in 2020 and 6-7 in 2021, which was the program’s first losing season since 1999.
What stood out most for Kelly in his debut season at LSU?
“Probably the relationships with the players and developing new relationships with 115 players and getting to know them,” Kelly said after the Citrus Bowl win. “That, to me, in year one, the first time here, you don’t know any of the players and they don’t know you.
“I think our first press conference — I keep saying press conference — our first meeting, said, hey, we are going to build trust, but it is going to take time for both sides. I think that that is what happened. I will remember that in year one — that process of building trust.”
