Since capturing a College Football Playoff national title in 2019, LSU hasn’t had much to write home about during the postseason.
The Tigers went 5-5 in 2020 but self-imposed a bowl ban as a result of the ongoing NCAA investigation into the program, and a shorthanded squad finished the 2021 season with a blowout loss against Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.
New coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] isn’t necessarily expected to bring the team back to title contention in Year 1, but he is expected to improve LSU’s national standing quite a bit. The latest bowl projections from Sporting News don’t exactly reflect that, however, as the Tigers are predicted to land in the mid-tier Music City Bowl in Nashville on Dec. 31.
These projections have LSU drawing Penn State in that game.
The two teams have met twice before — both in bowl games — with the Nittany Lions holding a 2-0 record in the all-time series. They won the 1974 Orange Bowl by a score of 16-9, and they survived a 19-17 affair in the Capital One Bowl in 2010.
This wouldn’t be the most exciting bowl matchup, and Tigers fans certainly hope the team can put together a good enough campaign to end up in a more high-profile game. But it would at least bring together two historic powers who rarely play against each other in a fun backdrop.
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