Tag: 2024 College Football Season

Florida State-Georgia Tech to kickoff 2024 season in Ireland

Another matchup set to kick off in Ireland.

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Florida State Seminoles will begin their 2024 season in Ireland, both programs announced on Wednesday morning. 

It will be the ninth-ever game to be played in Ireland and the fifth at Aviva Stadium. Last season, the stadium hosted the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, a game that saw Northwestern defeat Nebraska 31-28 on August 27.

The first-ever game in Ireland was played in 1988 between Boston College and Army, a 38-24 win over the Eagles. Games were also played in 1989 between No.24 Pittsburgh and Rutgers as well as in 1997 between No. 19 Notre Dame and Navy before not coming back until 2012 when Notre Dame and Navy had a rematch at the first game at Aviva Stadium, a 50-10 win for the Fighting Irish.

Penn State and UCF would play as part of the Croke Park Classic in 2014, a 26-24 win for the Nittany Lions while in 2016 Georgia Tech defeated Boston College 17-14 in the first Aer Lingus College Football Classic.

This upcoming fall, Aviva Stadium will host Notre Dame and Navy for their third matchup in Ireland on August 26 as part of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. While there have only been eight games over thirty years in Ireland, it often has been highly successful, drawing 38,000+ fans in seven of eight games including in each of the five games. While a large portion of those in attendance has been fans of the teams participating, many are also Irish nationals.

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Report: LSU’s 2024 matchup with UCLA gets moved in light of USC game being added

A report from Sports Illustrated indicates the 2024 UCLA-LSU game will be moved to late September.

The LSU Tigers were originally set to open the 2024 campaign in the same way that they will open in 2021. However, in 2024 it was going to be UCLA visiting Death Valley on Aug. 31. In light of the USC-LSU game set for the opener of that season, plans have changed.

According to Sports Illustrated’s UCLA site, the Bruins-Tigers showdown has been moved to Sept. 21.

The game between the Tigers and Trojans was pegged for Aug. 31, 2024 – the same exact date UCLA was supposed to travel to Baton Rouge and play LSU to kick off their season. The Bruins’ matchup with the Tigers was announced all the way back on March 31, 2014, as part of a home-and-home and there had been no announcements suggesting it had moved or been pulled by either team.

All Bruins has confirmed with a UCLA Athletics spokesperson that the game has officially been moved to Sept. 21, 2024. The spokesperson did not disclose the timeline of the decision.

This is how the 2024 nonconference schedule shakes out after moving UCLA to later into September.

  • Aug. 31 vs USC in Las Vegas
  • Sept. 7 vs Rice in Baton Rouge
  • Sept. 21 vs UCLA in Baton Rouge
  • Sept. 28 vs South Alabama in Baton Rouge

This would leave the Sept. 14 date open for the first SEC game of the season or a very early bye week. The interesting dynamic would be if the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns would be in the conference by 2024. This could likely mean the nonconference schedule gets decreased to just three games.

This could mean that either Rice or South Alabama might come off the schedule or they look to move a game to a future date.