BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On a wall inside LSU’s team meeting room are rectangular nameplates representing up to 15 games the third-ranked Tigers could play this season if they make it into the College Football Playoff.

Each nameplate is blank except for the one representing LSU’s next opponent, which is Louisiana Tech on Saturday night. Above that is a blank plate that read “Clemson” a week earlier.

LSU is 1-0 for the first time since winning a national title in 2019 and coach Brian Kelly wants the Tigers to demonstrate they can maintain the same focus and intensity this week — as five-touchdown, home favorites — that they exhibited on the road as slight underdogs against a top-10 opponent last weekend.

“Every Saturday, there’s a standard,” Kelly said. “They’re going to have to live up

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