LSU 2025 Football Schedule: Best & Worst Scenarios, Season Prediction

Who does LSU miss from the SEC schedule?

Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas

It’s a mixed bag of teams LSU misses. In general, you’re sort of ticked if you’re missing Mississippi State, Kentucky, and Auburn - at least until those three rise up and rock again - but the Tigers are getting one massive break with who they don’t play.

Not dealing with Missouri is great, and they don’t have to deal with the three SEC College Football Playoff teams from last year - Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas.

LSU football schedule, the good and the bad

The Good: Again, LSU doesn’t have to play the three SEC CFP teams. That’s a huge break - and LSU needs it.

There aren’t two road games in a row, and between the bookend away dates, the Tigers get seven home games in ten dates with a week off before going to Alabama. Louisiana Tech, SE Louisiana, and Western Kentucky - there are three wins coming from the non-conference games, but …

The Bad: At Clemson. Yes, LSU misses the SEC teams that went to the playoff, but it starts the season at the other Death Valley.

(Seriously, can’t this program just schedule Central Directional State A&M to start the season already?)

For a program that has the expectations at Win A National Title Already, Brian Kelly, that’s going to be tough with road dates at Alabama, Oklahoma, and that opener against Clemson.

LSU Football Schedule: Best and worst case scenarios

Best Case Scenario: The Tigers beat the other Tigers to open up the season, and they get by Florida for a 4-0 start before dealing with Ole Miss on the road.

They slip through that, beat South Carolina after getting a week off, get past Vanderbilt, and get by Texas A&M to stay unbeaten before going to Alabama. They go 11-1 on the way to the SEC Championship.

Worst Case Scenario: They drop the date at Clemson to start the season, and slip up against an improved Florida in the SEC opener. Combine that with a misfire at Ole Miss on the road, and it’s a 2-3 start with the season effectively over before October.

They drop one of the remaining home games - like, against Texas A&M - and doesn’t do anything at Alabama or Oklahoma in a lost season on the way to a new head coaching search.

Season Prediction: (Jan. 30) LSU drops the season opener for a fifth straight season, and it’s a struggle the rest of the way to be perfect.

It gets by Florida, and handles the road games against Ole Miss and Vanderbilt, but there’s one other misfire to go along with a loss to Alabama.

The regular season finale at Oklahoma will make-or-break the Tiger SEC Championship and CFP hopes - it’s January right now; lean loss on that, but that call might change over the next several months.

The Season Prediction will be updated several times this offseason