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LSU's TV kickoff windows announced for 2025 season

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Head Coach Brian Kelly takes the field as the LSU Tigers take on the Nicholls Colonels at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA. Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

LSU fans get a little more clarity on the Tigers’ 2025 schedule and time slots as the SEC announced the TV kickoff windows for the season on Wednesday afternoon.

the first four weeks have been locked in for the Tigers already, with all four coming at night, including the season-opener on the road at Clemson. After that, the Tigers have Louisiana Tech, Florida, and Southeastern all at home at night.

It appears the road game at Vanderbilt and the home game vs Arkansas will be “early” while road games at Alabama and a home game vs. Western Kentucky are both “night” games. The other four SEC games are all “flex” only meaning that they are not early games. Here’s LSU’s full schedule.

SEC Release:

“Following the May 29th announcement of all start times for the first three weeks, ESPN has released the approximate start times for the complete 2025 SEC football season. The schedule was unveiled during SEC Now: Inside the 2025 Schedule on SEC Network, as host Dari Nowkhah and analysts Roman Harper and Chris Doering took a deep dive into the 2025 college football campaign.

Week 5 Saturday already has a pair of high stakes showdowns set for Saturday, Sept 27. At noon, Notre Dame faces off in Fayetteville against Arkansas on ABC for the first time. In primetime, all eyes turn to Athens as Alabama takes on Georgia between the hedges on ABC Saturday Night Football Presented by Capital One. This is the 75th meeting between the two teams.

All SEC-controlled games starting with Week 4 (Sept. 20) will have set television windows, with select games tagged as Flex games between the Afternoon and Night windows. Designating windows for all games after Week 3 prior to the start of the season is a benefit of the rights agreement between the Southeastern Conference and ESPN which kicked off last fall.

Television start time windows for Weeks 4-14 are defined as follows:

  • Early: Noon to 1 p.m. ET start
  • Afternoon: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET start
  • Night: 6 to 8 p.m. ET start
  • Flex: Games flexed between the Afternoon (3:30-4:30 p.m.) and Night (6-8 p.m.) windows

For all listed windows (Early, Afternoon, Night, Flex), the exact start time within such window(s) will be confirmed no later than six days prior unless otherwise noted below.”

LSU enters this season looking to capitalize on a significant investment in the transfer portal and retention and now is getting more clarity on its path to the playoffs over the summer. Things start quickly against Clemson in week one and remain challenging throughout the season.

Stay tuned to the Bengal Tiger On3 for the latest intel on the Tigers as they prepare for the 2025 season.

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