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LSU has scheduled its first-ever game with nearby Southern University even though the schools are separated by just nine miles. The schools haven’t pegged an exact date yet, but 2022 will be the year, a Southern official told the Lafayette Daily Advertiser.
“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.”
LSU athletic director Scott Woodward offered his perspective.
“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 Sept. 10.
Sept. 3, 17, 24 and 31 are open, though an SEC game could fall into one of those spots.
The Tigers have played every in-state school but Southern, Grambling and Nicholls State, which is on the schedule next season on Oct. 3, the Advertiser reported.
LSU played Louisiana Tech and Southeastern Louisiana in 2018, Louisiana-Monroe in 2003, 2010, and 2014, McNeese State in 2010, the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2009, and Northwestern State in 2011 and this season.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
