2024 Football Schedule

[sportdawg]

Date	Opponent	Location	Time	TV/Stream ^ Projected
August 31	Nicholls State	Ruston	7:00pm	ESPN+
September 7	BYE
September 14	NC State	Raleigh, NC	11:00am	ACCN
September 21	Tulsa	Ruston	6:00pm	ESPN+
September 28	FIU	Miami, FL	5:00pm	ESPN+
October 4	BYE
October 10 (Thursday)	Middle Tennessee	Ruston, LA	7:00pm	CBSSN
October 15 (Tuesday)	New Mexico State	Las Cruces, NM	8:00pm	ESPNU
October 22 (Tuesday)	UTEP	Ruston, LA	7:00pm	CBSSN
October 29 (Tuesday)	Sam Houston State	Huntsville, TX	7:00pm	ESPNU
November 9	Jacksonville State (Homecoming)	Ruston, LA	3:30pm	CBSSN
November 16	Western Kentucky	Bowling Green, KY	11:00am	CBSSN
November 23	Arkansas	Fayetteville, AR	3:00pm	SECN+
November 30	Kennesaw Sate	Ruston, LA	3:00pm	ESPN+

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FUTURE LOUISIANA TECH NON-CONFERENCE OPPONENTS

“Our philosophy will be to schedule one Power Five, two Group of Fives and one FCS each year." - Former AD Dr. Eric Wood

2025 08/30 vs Southeastern Louisiana ($325,000) 09/06 at LSU ($1.6 million) 09/20 vs Southern Miss 11/15 at Washington State

2026 09/12 vs. Northwestern State ($400,000) 09/19 at Southern Miss 09/26 vs UL-Lafayette @ TBD $$$

2027 09/11 vs Nicholls State ($350,000) 09/18 at Kansas 09/25 vs South Alabama @ TBD $$$

2028 09/02 2 at Texas 09/09 - at North Texas 09/16 vs Kansas 09/23 - at San Diego State

2029 09/08 at UL-Lafayette 09/15 vs Bowling Green Southern Miss 09/22 vs San Diego State @ TBD $$$

2030 vs FCS 09/14 @ Troy @ TBD $$$ 09/21 ULM

2031 09/13 at ULM 09/20 at USM

2032 09/18 vs USM 09/25 vs. Troy

2033 09/17 at USM 09/24 vs San Diego State

2034 09/09 vs NC State 09/23 at San Diego State

TBD at Tulsa

• 09/23 at San Diego State

[dawg80]

We ever gonna see NC State in Ruston?

[sportdawg]

We ever gonna see NC State in Ruston?

2034

• 09/09 vs NC State

[PawDawg]

2034

• 09/09 vs NC State

Is this the one McClelland set up? It was a 2-1 that has obviously been changed up. We were supposed to play them in Ruston in 2025. We lose our arse on this screw up.

[inudesu]

Is this the one McClelland set up? It was a 2-1 that has obviously been changed up. We were supposed to play them in Ruston in 2025. We lose our arse on this screw up.

I think the LSU money game next year is why it got moved.

[PawDawg]

I think the LSU money game next year is why it got moved.

I think Wood saw what a bad deal the NC State series was for us and would have taken ANY real money game to replace it just to keep our meager budget somewhat in tact. The Baylor deal was just as bad and we squirmed out of that one.

[inudesu]

I don't mind the occasional 2-for-1. It is our best chance to ever host a P5 school. But they do mess up our rotation of $ game, FCS game, home G5, away G5. And they are discounted to the other school by definition.

It is hard to believe we will ever actually get the home game out of this one. That's waaaaay out there.

[PawDawg]

I don't mind the occasional 2-for-1. It is our best chance to ever host a P5 school. But they do mess up our rotation of $ game, FCS game, home G5, away G5. And they are discounted to the other school by definition.

It is hard to believe we will ever actually get the home game out of this one. That's waaaaay out there.

You can count the number of successful 2 for 1s we've had on one hand. Having the 3rd game in the series in Ruston or even Shreveport never works out.

McClelland screwed up our home game with Army by moving it to Dallas...this after the success we had when we played Navy in Ruston. He was such a turd.

[sportdawg]

You can count the number of successful 2 for 1s we've had on one hand. Having the 3rd game in the series in Ruston or even Shreveport never works out.

McClelland screwed up our home game with Army by moving it to Dallas...this after the success we had when we played Navy in Ruston. He was such a turd.

Football vs Navy on 9/18/2010 - Box Score - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com) We had 23,000 (tickets sold) for Navy.

31000 at Cotton Bowl Football vs Army on 9/28/2013 - Box Score - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)

Does anyone know how much we got paid? Seems like 23,000 in Ruston is better than 31K in Dallas.

[inudesu]

You can count the number of successful 2 for 1s we've had on one hand. Having the 3rd game in the series in Ruston or even Shreveport never works out.

McClelland screwed up our home game with Army by moving it to Dallas...this after the success we had when we played Navy in Ruston. He was such a turd.

I can't imagine we've done enough of them to count on much more than one hand either way. I agree that when/if we're going to do these, we need to push for the Ruston/Shreveport game to be game 1 or 2, not 3. And that they should be treated as priority games - I still wonder why the heck we moved the MSU game so that both Tech and MSU could go to UMass of all places? What was the point of that? Just trying to make our schedule easier maybe? But why would MSU agree? So weird. I am really scared we're about to be sharing a conference with the Minutemen, although I just can't see why CUSA would want to.

Football vs Navy on 9/18/2010 - Box Score - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com) We had 23,000 (tickets sold) for Navy.

31000 at Cotton Bowl Football vs Army on 9/28/2013 - Box Score - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)

Does anyone know how much we got paid? Seems like 23,000 in Ruston is better than 31K in Dallas.

It's so hard to ever get numbers about that kind of stuff. I do think they would have been better in Ruston - I wonder if Army pushed for that move? 23,000 in Aillet vs. 31,000 in a 90,000 person stadium? That's a big difference in game experience/feel (I guess part of the pitch would have been the overall experience of the Texas State fair and all).

[PawDawg]

Army was a TMac decision in attempt to appease Metroplex and surrounding Texas area fans. He figured Shreveport fans would show. Closer to 10k than 30k. It was raining almost the entire game…that was the excuse. It was our home game so we probably had some kind of TMac deal with the venue. It’s likely that we paid the venue (ticket sales)and had to eat our expenses

[Lotsudo]

Army was a TMac decision in attempt to appease Metroplex and surrounding Texas area fans. He figured Shreveport fans would show. Closer to 10k than 30k. It was raining almost the entire game…that was the excuse. It was our home game so we probably had some kind of TMac deal with the venue. It’s likely that we paid the venue (ticket sales)and had to eat our expenses

That game was a miserable experience! Constant weather delays and only sold Miller Light

[DJDAWG]

The game experience sucked cause Tech played to defend the pass against a 98% run-oriented team.

[sportdawg]

@FBSchedules

2024 Conference USA football schedule will be released on Thursday, Feb. 1 at noon ET. #CUSA

[inudesu]

@FBSchedules

2024 Conference USA football schedule will be released on Thursday, Feb. 1 at noon ET. #CUSA

Anyone got a strong preference on who we want to miss?

Given our record the last few years, I think I would rather miss a stronger team like Liberty or WKU.

Past that I do not care one way or the other about playing any other team in CUSA.