Kelly is "rooting for" his old program heading into the National Championship Game, excited for his former players.

Here are five teams that didn’t make the College Football Playoff this season that should be strong contenders for qualification next season.

LSU head football coach Brian Kelly has emerged in the spotlight during the postseason despite his Tigers playing in the Texas Bowl.A reasonable follow-up question would be, how?With Notre Dame making the CFP title game under his successor,

The Orange Bowl was a huge win for that program. The fact that they made it all this way — against Penn State, no less — speaks to the job Freeman has done. To go from losing to Northern Illinois at the beginning of the season to playing for a national championship is unheard of.

LSU head coach Brian Kelly remains in headlines after his former program, Notre Dame, punched its ticket to the National Championship on Thursday night. Kelly

LSU coach Brian Kelly says he's rooting for former school Notre Dame in the CFP final. But would a championship win for the Irish mean more pressure for him?

With just days to go before the National Championship Game, LSU's experienced head coach Brian Kelly has made his pick between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Brian Kelly wouldn't score well on a Q-score metric ... Within the SEC, the moment ripens for an LSU revolution. Alabama sits at an inflection point after a clunking debut season from Kalen ...

The program he left, Notre Dame, is preparing for the College Football Playoff national championship against Ohio State on Jan. 20 in Atlanta, under the guidance of Marcus Freeman. The program Kelly joined after leaving Notre Dame in November 2021, LSU, missed this year's College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season under his watch.