LSU now knows which conference opponents they’ll play for the next four seasons. The SEC has announced next season LSU will host Alabama, Mississippi State, Texas A&M and Texas. Tiger Rag Editor Glen Guilbeau is looking forward to the matchup with the Longhorns as it will likely mark the return of New Orleans native Arch Manning to Louisiana.
“If Arch Manning indeed does become a great quarterback, you would hate for yet another great SEC player to never play LSU, which was the case with Peyton Manning. Also, the case with Herschel Walker and Bo Jackson,” Guilbeau said.
Texas has not played in Tiger Stadium since 1953.
LSU’s road opponents next season will be Arkansas, Auburn, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Tennessee.
Under the SEC’s new nine-game conference schedule format, each school will play every school at least twice over a four-year period. Guilbeau believes the format is good for the players and the fans.
“So that makes a lot of sense because in the old format, you could go 10, 12 years without playing a team or never go to another place for like a dozen years,” Guilbeau explained.
Looking ahead to the 2027 schedule, LSU will not play Alabama in the regular season for the first time since 1963. Guilbeau says the LSU-Alabama game is one of the most highly anticipated games every college football season, so it will be strange to see a schedule where the Tigers and Tide are not scheduled to play that season.
“It was kind of strange, I thought, of the SEC because that was its bell cow for TV rating,” Guibeau noted.
