LSU has a busy SEC schedule in the first year of the league’s 16-team expansion, but the tough contests will begin before conference play begins.
The Tigers open the season against USC in Las Vegas on Labor Day Sunday in what could be a fascinating matchup between teams that had tough defenses in 2023 and were missing a lot of pieces from prolific offenses.
Joel Klatt recently looked at 10 games that could define the college football season, and he thinks the Week 1 contest could have significant downstream effects.
“I think USC and LSU are positioned pretty similarly in their conferences,” Klatt said. “Which is a bit unknown. We believe in their coaches, they have a great track record and track record. We believe in their locations… And yet, we still don’t know in this new iteration of these conferences, where they will be?”
Klatt said with a win over the Trojans, LSU would likely be 5-0 when Ole Miss comes to town for a crucial conference matchup. He thinks an opening win could propel the Tigers to compete for an at-large bid for the College Football Playoffs.
Both teams have significant doubts, but we’ll have much less to say about which one will emerge victorious from the desert in Week 1.
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