Garrett Nussmeier played a risky gamble last season by staying in Brian Kelly’s LSU, even when he had options to move out. Against Ole Miss, he hit his career low, 21-for-34 for 197 yards. Nussmeier’s interception problem (five interceptions), too, is keeping the Tigers’ squad awake at night. “I felt like I was letting everyone down,” Nussmeier admitted, as he made a disheartening confession about personal struggles.

On October 14, USA Today Network analyst Cory Diaz dropped a clip of Nussmeier’s latest interview. “What changed and what kind of led to, I guess, your performance from last week?” came the question.

“Yeah, I think just for one, just everything that I was kind of going through in the first couple weeks was obviously very frustrating and, you know, I think I let it

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