2025 Football Schedule

[sportdawg]

Date	Opponent	Time	Media
08/30	Southeastern Louisiana	6:30pm	ESPN+
09/06	@ Louisiana State	6:30pm	SECN+/ESPN+
09/13	New Mexico St *	6:30pm	ESPN+
09/20	Southern Miss	6:30pm	ESPN+
09/27	@ Texas-El Paso *	8pm	ESPN+
Thurs, 10/09	@ Kennesaw St *	6pm	ESPNU
Tues, 10/21	Western Kentucky *	6:30pm	CBSSN
Fri, 10/31	Sam Houston St * Homecoming	7pm	CBSSN
11/08	@ Delaware *	2pm	ESPN Platform ^
11/15	@ Washington State	9pm	CW
11/22	Liberty *	2pm	ESPN Platform ^
11/29	@ Missouri St *	1pm	ESPN Platform ^
12/30	Coastal Carolina Independence Bowl	1pm	ESPN
	* Conference Game
			^ ESPN Platform to be decided 12 days out. Most likely ESPN+.

FUTURE LOUISIANA TECH NON-CONFERENCE OPPONENTS

2026 09/12 vs. Northwestern State ($400,000) TBD TBD TBD Projected Conference Schedule (Based on historic TX State schedules) Home: Troy, ULM, S Alabama Away: Arkansas St, UL-L, USM TBD: App St, TBD West

2027 09/11 vs Nicholls State ($350,000) 09/18 at Kansas 09/25 vs. Tulsa 10/02 at NC State

2028 09/02 at Texas 09/09 at North Texas 09/16 09/23

2029 09/22 at Tulsa

2030 vs FCS

2031 09/20 at Tulsa

2032

2033 09/24 vs San Diego State

2034 09/23 at San Diego State

2035 9/22 vs. Bowling Green

[sportdawg]

We don't play FIU this year 2025 Football Schedule - FIU Athletics

[sportdawg]

August 30th - vs Southeastern (LA)
September 6th - @ LSU
September 13th - vs New Mexico State
September 20th - vs Southern Miss
September 27th - @ UTEP
October 9th - @ Kennesaw State
October 21st - vs Western Kentucky
​October 28th - vs Sam Houston State
November 8th - @ Delaware
November 15th - @ Washington State
​November 22nd - vs Liberty
November 29th - @ Missouri State

[PawDawg]

A Thursday and 2 Tuesday home games.

DEI Judy still at work to keep the worst TV deal in college football.

[dawg80]

3-9

[inudesu]

No Middle, JSU, or FIU. That part is fine.

I'm not sure there is a team in our conference that is going to be of more interest than any other. Possibly SHSU because they're closest. Liberty or WKU because they're likely to be good (maybe JSU will join them in this, but we'll see post-RichRod). I guess the western teams have the most history with us, but I don't know that either side considers those rivalry games in any way (and UTEP is leaving anyway).

The who of it all is just what it is for this conference. Other than the pairs of rivals these 12 teams don't care about each other so it doesn't really matter who plays who, we just all need a conference and a schedule and this is what's available.


The mid-week continues to be bad. Based on the logic above it shouldn't matter who we get mid-week vs who we get on a Saturday (not to any real degree) but I guess if you wanted something extra to be mad about on top of the pure existence and scope of mid-week, you'd probably want your worst draws then since you're going to be pretty limited - so (grading on a curve) maybe you'd rather have SHSU on a Saturday and NMSU on a weeknight or something? But that's probably not a huge deal. It's giving up 2 home Saturday games at all that's the issue. At least we avoid the Thur-to-next-Tue turnaround this year with byes built into October and just 3 instead of 4 mid-week games overall. That's an improvement.

Somehow Missouri State got 2 road games and just 1 home mid-week game. I'd think schools would be fighting for that set-up, so it's curious that a newbie got it. But I wonder if schools if bother lobbying for that kind of thing or if they just get what they get?

There has been uncertainty about whether our media deal was "everyone plays 4 mid-week games in October" or "CUSA provides X number of mid-week games in October and it just makes more sense for the whole conference to pivot to avoid going back and forth from Sat to Thur" and this year's schedule makes me think it's the later. Several teams just have 3 mid-week games and byes in October. That's better (and a small argument for the over-expansion we've done).

[PawDawg]

Our leadership has failed.

They got excited about having 3000 at a MBB game the other night.

[inudesu]

Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?

[PawDawg]

Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?

Our leadership continues to fail.

Liberty is DEI Judy's new UAB

[Blue Dawg]

Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?

Robert Conquest's Third Law: the behavior of every large bureaucracy can be explained by assuming it is run by a cabal of its enemies

[PawDawg]

Robert Conquest's Third Law: the behavior of every large bureaucracy can be explained by assuming it is run by a cabal of its enemies

Profound!

[sportdawg]

Oregon State and Washington State nearing TV deal with The CW

[sportdawg]

As part of the festivities for Homecoming Weekend, our contest against Sam Houston has been moved from Tuesday, October 28th to Friday, October 31st.*

The game will serve as our Homecoming game.

[Blue Dawg]

As part of the festivities for Homecoming Weekend, our contest against Sam Houston has been moved from Tuesday, October 28th to Friday, October 31st.*

The game will serve as our Homecoming game.

Hm, if only there were a way to make attendance even lower than a Tuesday night game...

[qng001]

I rather we have the Homecoming game on Saturday afternoon/evening with no internet tv broadcast.

Homecoming on Friday night (on Halloween) is stupid.