LSU To Play Southern University

[LSUDad]

First LSU-Southern football game is a reality — September 2022 is the target date

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GLENN GUILBEAU | LAFAYETTE DAILY ADVERTISER

Updated 3 hours ago

   

BATON ROUGE — The first LSU-Southern University football game is closer to happening than ever, and is even closer than the distance between the two colleges, which is only nine miles.

Try September 2022 to be exact.

"The magic will be happening with a formal announcement in maybe three or five days and no more than two weeks," Southern athletic director Roman Banks said Thursday. "It's safe to say that it's going to happen. We're looking at the first three weekends of September of 2022."

 

 

 

Banks has been in discussions recently with LSU deputy athletic director Verge Ausberry, who handles scheduling for the football program.

"Verge and I really have been more intense about it the last six months," Banks said.

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Ausberry had no other comment other than "still looking into" this week, but LSU new athletic director Scott Woodward was much more open.

"We are excited about getting the game on the schedule for the first time," Woodward said Thursday night. "It will be great for this community to come together to celebrate these two historic Baton Rouge universities."

LSU's only game on the schedule for 2022 at the moment is New Mexico on Saturday, Sept. 10. Sept. 3, 17, 24 and 31 are open, though a Southeastern Conference game could fall into one of those spots."Once we cross the T's and dot the I's, it will happen," Banks said.

Southern, which is in the lesser Football Championship Series division of colleges, is expected to receive in the neighborhood of $500,000 for the game from LSU, Banks said.

That would be similar to other figures received by Southern for playing other schools of the upper Football Bowl Subdivision like LSU recently. Texas Christian University paid Southern $500,000, Banks said, for a Sept. 1 game last year in Fort Worth, Texas, that the Jaguars lost, 55-7.

[Fishhead]

I mean I'm actually excited enough that I'm considering going just to see the band, but the more this continues, the more I agree with Nootch and Nick Saban. We need to quit playing this kind of team.

At least we keep it in state I guess.