LSU football knows its location and opponent for postseason play.
Announced on Sunday, the Tigers will play Baylor in the Kinder’s Texas Bowl on New Year’s Eve. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 CT and the game will be broadcast on ESPN.
Both teams will head to NRG Stadium in Texas with 8-4 records. The Bears’ last loss came on October 5. Since then, they rattled off six-straight wins in the Big 12 and all but one victory was by a double-digit margin.
The game on Dec. 31 marks the twelfth all-time meeting between the two programs and the first since the 1985 Liberty Bowl, which Baylor won 21-7. LSU leads the all-time series 8-3. The Bears and Tigers met in the predecessor to the Texas Bowl, the Blue Bonnet Bowl, in 1963.
Baylor is led by head coach Dave Aranda, who formally occupied the defensive coordinator position in Baton Rouge. He helped lead the Tigers to the national championship in 2019 under former head coach [autotag]Ed Orgeron.[/autotag] Following Aranda’s departure, several former LSU staff members made the move to Waco and helped the head coach establish his culture.