BATON ROUGE – LSU football welcomes its second instate opponent of the 2025 school soccer season to Tiger Stadium this weekend.
FCS foe Southeastern Louisiana comes calling Saturday evening (6:45 p.m. CT, SEC Community) because the No. 4 ranked Tigers (3-0) look to stay undefeated on the season.
For the primary time beneath head coach Brian Kelly, LSU is unbeaten by way of three video games, and the crew has gained its first two video games at dwelling this season, 23-7 over Louisiana Tech and 20-10 final week towards rival Florida.
With LSU taking part in an FCS opponent, what which means: paycheck time for the smaller program.
Per information obtained by the The Every day Advertiser, LSU is ready to pay Southeastern Louisiana $750,000 to return play at Tiger Stadium Saturday evening. The payout should be accomplished by Jan. 31, 2026, in line with the sport contract.
LSU and Southeastern Louisiana agreed to the standalone sport final October. The payout to SLU is a shade cheaper for LSU that what it has paid to different instate FCS groups the couple of seasons. For the 2023 sport towards Grambling State and final season’s matchup with Nicholls State, LSU doled out $760,000 for every of the contests.
This season in cash video games, LSU has paid out $2.35 million mixed to Lousiana Tech and now Southeastern Louisana. LSU is ready to make $500,000 for its journey to Clemson to open the 2025 season.
Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Every day Advertiser as a part of the USA TODAY Community. Comply with his Tigers protection on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Obtained questions concerning LSU athletics? Ship them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.
