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USA Today
13-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Start time, TV channel announced for Clemson vs. LSU Week 1 college football season opener
Start time, TV channel announced for Clemson vs. LSU Week 1 college football season opener Week 1 of the 2025 college football season will feature four prominent games between the ACC and SEC, including the Clemson Tigers' much-hyped showdown vs. the LSU Tigers in Memorial Stadium. Veteran college football insider Brett McMurphy reported Tuesday that Clemson and LSU will kick off in prime time at 7:30 p.m. ET from Memorial Stadium. The game will be televised on ABC. Earlier that day, Syracuse will face the Tennessee Volunteers at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at noon ET. The game will be televised on ABC. At 3:30 p.m. ET, the Florida State Seminoles will host the Alabama Crimson Tide at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. That game will also be televised on ABC, McMurphy reported. Virginia Tech and South Carolina are scheduled to meet Sunday at 3 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on ESPN. For Clemson and LSU, it will be their first head-to-head meeting since the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 13, 2020. LSU and Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow capped a 15-0 season by beating Dabo Swinney's Tigers, 42-25, at the Superdome in New Orleans. This year's meeting between Clemson and LSU will be the fifth all-time between the two schools. LSU leads the series, 3-1, with Clemson's only victory coming in the 2012 Peach Bowl, a 25-24 upset on New Year's Eve in Atlanta. LSU will be making its first trip to Memorial Stadium this season, with Clemson set to make its first visit to Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge to open the 2026 college football season. Clemson went 10-4 a season ago, beating the SMU Mustangs 34-31 on a 56-yard Nolan Hauser game-winning field goal as time expired in the ACC Championship Game. The Tigers lost to the Texas Longhorns, 38-24, in the first round of the 2025 College Football Playoffs in Austin. LSU is coming off a 9-4 season in Brian Kelly's third year in Baton Rouge. LSU ended its season with a 44-31 win over Baylor in the Texas Bowl on New Year's Eve. Contact us @Clemson_Wire on X, and like our page on Facebook for ongoing coverage of Clemson Tigers news and notes, plus opinions.
USA Today
13-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Start time, TV channel announced for Alabama vs Florida State in college football Week 1
Start time, TV channel announced for Alabama vs Florida State in college football Week 1 The showdown between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida State Seminoles in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season now has a reported start time and TV channel. Veteran college football scribe Brett McMurphy reported Tuesday that the SEC, ACC and its television partner ESPN had agreed to kickoff times for four games featuring the two conferences in head-to-head action. Alabama and Florida State will kick off at 2:30 p.m. CT from Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. The game will be televised on ABC, McMurphy reported. That same day, LSU will visit the Clemson Tigers in prime time at 6:30 p.m. CT, and Tennessee will open the season vs. Syracuse at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at 11 a.m., in other SEC vs. ACC play. On Sunday, Virginia Tech and South Carolina are scheduled to meet at Mercedes-Benz Stadium at 2 p.m. CT. For Alabama and Florida State, it will be their first meeting since the 2017 season opener at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Crimson Tide defense smothered the Seminoles in a 24-7 win. The only other time Alabama has placed FSU in the state of Florida was on Sept. 29, 2007, a 21-14 loss to Bobby Bowden's Seminoles in Jacksonville during Nick Saban's first season as Crimson Tide coach. This year's meeting will be the sixth all-time between Alabama and Florida State. The Tide lead the series, 3-1-1. Alabama went 9-4 a season ago under first-year coach Kalen DeBoer, beating rivals Auburn, LSU and Georgia and falling to Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma before losing to Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl (formerly the Outback Bowl). Florida State went 2-10 last season under coach Mike Norvell. Contact/Follow us @RollTideWire on X, and like our page on Facebook for ongoing coverage of Alabama news and notes, plus opinions.
