LSU-Clemson home-and-home football series announced for 2025, 2026 seasons

The two prominent southern power conference Tigers will tangle in back-to-back years in their respective Death Valleys.

Clemson and LSU have announced a home-and-home football series in 2025 and 2026.

LSU will visit Clemson to open the 2025 season on Aug. 30, and Clemson will make the return trip to Baton Rouge on Sept. 5, 2026. The games will be the first regular season meetings between the programs.

A 7-0 win by the Bengal Tigers in New Orleans to cap LSU’s 1958 national championship marked the first meeting in the series while the most recent matchup between the pairs of Tigers was a bitter late loss for the Purple and Gold:

Clemson and LSU first met on the gridiron on Jan. 1, 1959, when Frank Howard’s ACC title-winning squad culminated its 1958 campaign against LSU in the Sugar Bowl. The two programs most recently met in an instant classic in the 2012 Chick-Fil-A Bowl, as Clemson drove 60 yards in 10 plays — including a key conversion on fourth-and-16 — to set up kicker Chandler Catanzaro’s 37-yard field goal as time expired in a 25-24 Clemson win.

LSU leads the series 2-1 thanks to a 10-7 win in the 1996 Peach Bowl.