{"id":723756,"date":"2026-06-24T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723756\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:22:11","slug":"former-lsu-football-coach-brian-kelly-gets-new-job-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723756\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LSU football coach Brian Kelly gets new job | LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/lsu\/former-lsu-football-coach-brian-kelly-return-desire\/article_c7aab69c-4964-4d10-8bce-9390161062f7.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Kelly<\/a>, the former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/lsu\/lsu-football-lane-kiffin-must-win-games\/article_37e8e106-f29a-46bf-a56f-914b5229c73a.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LSU football<\/a> coach fired in November, has landed a new job: CBS college football color commentator. Kelly is expected to be a part of a three-man booth, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/brian-kelly-cbs-college-football-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Front Office Sports<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s expected to call Mountain West games on the network this fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCBS Sports has one Big Ten football game a week,\u201d FOS\u2019s Ryan Glasspiegel wrote. \u201cThis season, Charles Davis is replacing Gary Danielson alongside Brad Nessler on Big Ten games at the network. Kelly is expected to be part of a three-man booth on Mountain West games \u2026 one source said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OKelly did in-studio work with CBS for the NFL Draft this past spring.<\/p>\n<p>LSU announced it \u201cseparated\u201d from Kelly in October after the Tigers started 5-3 in 2025. The separation, however, was found to be without cause, so the two sides agreed to a $54-million buyout, and Kelly was officially fired in November, the same month the program hired his successor, Lane Kiffin.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, 64, previously said he wanted to work in a role around the game of football to keep his opportunity to coach again open someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Kelly, the former LSU football coach fired in November, has landed a new job: CBS college football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-723756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}