How difficult is LSU football’s 2024 schedule? Here are 5 takeaways

BATON ROUGE — LSU football’s 2024 schedule is here.

The SEC on Wednesday announced the dates for every game in the conference in 2024. The conference had previously announced each SEC team’s opponents for next season but without any dates.

Here are five takeaways from LSU’s 2024 schedule.

LSU football schedule 2024

The first four weeks will be enlightening

LSU has a challenging opening four weeks into the schedule, as it faces a trio of Power-5 conference foes.

The Tigers travel to Las Vegas and face Southern Cal to open the year on Sept. 1 before playing Nicholls in Week 2 for the home opener. LSU then hits the road again in a matchup against South Carolina in Columbia before heading back home in Week 4 to face UCLA.

A strong start could make LSU a lead contender to win the national title out of the gates, but a slow one could sink its season almost immediately.

LSU has two well-placed off weeks

LSU’s two off weeks in 2024 will be Week 6 and Week 10.

The first off week comes after LSU’s matchup against South Alabama and before it hosts Ole Miss. The second off week occurs the week after its trip to Texas A&M and before its annual showdown against Alabama.

Having three consecutive SEC matchups, including two on the road, after the first off week makes the break good timing for the Tigers, especially after the craziness of the beginning of their schedule.

The second off week coming just before their matchup against Alabama maintains a tradition that has served the Tigers well at times in the past.

Consecutive road trips to Arkansas and Texas A&M could be tricky

LSU has a lot of new faces on its 2024 schedule, including Southern Cal, UCLA, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt and South Carolina.

But for as flashy as those new matchups are on paper, the back-to-back road trips the Tigers have to make in Week 8 and 9 against familiar foes Arkansas…

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Publish date : 2023-12-14 02:14:47

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