LSU to face West Coast power in Las Vegas to open 2024 season
LSU will have a marquee matchup to open the 2024 season, the program announced on Wednesday.
The Tigers will play Southern Cal to open the 2024 season on Sept. 1 in a 6:30 p.m. CT game from Las Vegas on ABC.
LSU and USC will meet the Vegas Kickoff Classic at Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders.
It will be the first meeting between LSU and USC since 1984 when the Tigers beat the Trojans, 23-3, in the Coliseum in Los Angeles.
The teams have met just one other time that coming in 1979 when USC posted a 17-12 win over LSU in Tiger Stadium in what is still called one of the greatest games played in Death Valley.
LSU opens the 2023 season against Florida State in Orlando.
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LSU and USC will open the 2024 season on ESPN at 6:30 p.m. CT in Las Vegas. pic.twitter.com/mEtkNElJxs
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It’s about 20 years too late, but it should be fun anyway.
Likely to be a lot of purple along the strip at that time.
Fun.
LSU fans in Vegas en masse – the game may wind up being a secondary story. Bar managers, start your engines . . .
You know there are some bar managers in Vegas right now saying, “they won’t drink MY bar dry”. Little do they know.
1979 USC at LSU was the greatest game I ever attended, by far.
Arguably the greatest college football game ever played. We came up just a tad short.