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The season begins August 30 at Clemson
The SEC announced the dates for all 2025 football schedules Wednesday evening in a TV special that honestly could have just been a tweet, but hey you gotta move that inventory somehow.
Leading into tonight, we knew all 12 of LSU’s 2025 opponents and a few dates. For instance, we knew that LSU would open the season at Clemson and would open the home slate the following Saturday against Louisiana Tech. We also knew that the conference schedule would be the complete opposite of the 2024 slate. Now we have the complete picture for 2025.
The 2025 LSU Football Schedule pic.twitter.com/vfyyrx9rtR
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The month of September looks to be brutal. Not only will LSU have to open the season at Clemson, they’ll close the month on the road in Oxford. The Tigers will also open SEC play in Week 3 as LSU will host Florida. This is an LSU website and we like to look at things through purple and gold glasses, but I’m not sure LSU gets through the month of September unscathed. LSU has, of course, not won a season opening game since 2019, and I’m not sure it’s fair to expect better than a 1-1 split with the Florida and Ole Miss games.
The schedule eases up, relatively speaking of course, in October. LSU will have a bye week following Ole Miss and of the three games the Tigers will play that month, two will be at home. LSU, coming off their bye, will host South Carolina on October 11, go to Vanderbilt the following week, and host Texas A&M on October 25.
LSU will, once again, have its second bye the weekend of Halloween aka the weekend before the Alabama game. Arkansas is once again back in the “week after Bama” slot which is a little scary because I’ve seen far too many post-Bama hangovers against the Hogs for my liking. LSU will close Tiger Stadium out with Western Kentucky before going to Norman to take on Oklahoma.
Obviously there is a long ways to go before August 30 and rosters will change dramatically as players enter the transfer portal, but at first glance this seems like a 9-3 type of schedule. I’m worried LSU will be 3-2 exiting September, but confident they can protect home field against South Carolina and Texas A&M. I’ll chalk a loss up at Bama but keep my fingers crossed they can win the last three to finish 9-3.
What do y’all think? Better, worse, too early to tell?