CLEMSON — When it comes to bulletin board material, LSU head coach Brian Kelly is the gift that keeps on giving.

In the final days leading up to Saturday’s massive top 10 showdown between No. 4 Clemson and No. 9 LSU, Kelly continued to take shots at Clemson and specifically the nickname of Memorial Stadium, “Death Valley.”

However, this time, Kelly might have took it a little too far. At the end of his radio show Thursday night, Kelly not only took a shot Clemson’s Death Valley, but he also guaranteed his LSU Tigers a victory.

“Let’s get ready for a great environment — not Death Valley — but it is going to be a great road win. Get there early and cheer on the Tigers,” he said. “Thank you for your support tonight–being a little late–we will come early next week and talk about this win.”

Earlier this summer at SEC Media Days, Kelly told the media that LSU allows Clemson to barrow the moniker “Death Valley” and then later, in that same week, he called Clemson, “Death Valley Junior.”

Of course, Clemson’s Memorial Stadium was first called “Death Valley” by former Presbyterian head coach Lonnie McMillan in 1945. The nickname stuck and by the mid-1950s, Clemson was officially calling Memorial Stadium Death Valley.

LSU has several urban legends on how Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., became known as “Death Valley,” but none have been proven and one has been shot down by a former LSU coach. Yet its fans, and now Kelly, insist it is college football’s “Death Valley,” though its earliest account of even being close to being called Death Valley came in 1959, following Billy Cannon’s game-winning 89-yard punt return for a touchdown against Ole Miss, which sealed him being awarded the 1959 Heisman Trophy.

Listen to the audio from the Brian Kelly Show in Chapel Fowler’s post on X.com.