LSU will have the chance to answer a rough Week 3 with a loud one in Baton Rouge.
After a gut-punch loss to Ole Miss on Saturday night in Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford, the No. 10 Tigers are back home for a primetime meeting with No.
23 Texas A&M, and the opening line gives LSU plenty of room to breathe. The Tigers are favored by 9 points in the Week 4 matchup, set for 7:30 p.m.
ET on ABC.
Texas A&M comes in carrying its own bruises. The Aggies dropped at home to unranked Kentucky in one of the weekend’s bigger stunners, then tumbled 14 spots in Sunday’s new AP Poll. LSU slipped three spots, but both teams still have a chance to steady themselves before the calendar flips out of September.
There’s more at stake than just a bounce-back win. LSU and Texas A&M both enter at 2-1 overall and are trying to avoid an 0-2 start in SEC play after losing their conference openers in Week 3. That makes Saturday night more than just a showcase game; it’s an early reset button for two teams with bigger ambitions down the line.
LSU also gets a crack at revenge. Texas A&M rolled past the Tigers 49-25 last season in a late-October primetime game in Death Valley, a result that ultimately helped push the program into a coaching change with Brian Kelly. This time, the same venue and the same opponent are back on the schedule, only now the meeting lands in late September instead of October.
Both teams have SEC title hopes in the bigger picture, and both will be trying to keep those hopes from taking another hit. The betting market has LSU installed as the clear favorite to do that at home.
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