#LSU NATIONAL CHAMPIONS @LSUfball 1958 • 2003 • 2007 @LSUCoachMiles SEC CHAMPIONS /LSUfootball LSU 1935 • 1936 • 1958 • 1961 • 1970 @LSUfootball 1986 • 1988 • 2001 • 2003 • 2007 • 2011 GAME Mississippi State BREAKDOWN September 12, 2015 8:15 p.m. CT • ESPN LSU Mississippi State 2 Starkville, Miss. Record 0-0, 0-0 SEC Record 1-0, 0-0 SEC Davis Wade Stadium (61,337) Ranking 14 AP / 13 Amway Coaches Ranking NR AP / NR Amway Coaches Last Game Sept. 5 vs. McNeese State Last Game Sept. 5 at Southern Miss 2015 SCHEDULES No Contest (Canceled/Weather) won, 34-16 Head Coach Les Miles Head Coach Dan Mullen #14/13 LSU (0-0, 0-0 SEC) Career Record 131-50/15th year Career Record 47-31/seventh year DATE LSU RANK OPPONENT TV RESULT/TIME LSU Record 103-29/11th year MSU Record Same SEPTEMBER (0-0) Miles vs. MSU 9-1 vs. LSU 1-5 5 #14/13 McNeese State SECN-Alt No contest vs. Mullen 5-1 vs. Miles 1-5 12 at Mississippi State * ESPN 8:15 p.m. LSU vs. MSU 71-34-3 19 Auburn * CBS 2:30 p.m. 26 at Syracuse TBA TBA OCTOBER NEXT UP 3 Eastern Michigan TBA TBA 10 at South Carolina * TBA TBA LSU Gets Second-Chance At Season-Opener, This Time at Mississippi State 17 Florida * TBA TBA LSU will get another shot at a season-opener on Saturday as the Tigers travel to Mississippi State to face the Bulldogs 24 Western Kentucky TBA TBA in Starkville. The game comes a week after LSU’s scheduled season opener against McNeese State was canceled just NOVEMBER five minutes into the first quarter due to consistent lightning in Baton Rouge. The LSU-McNeese game was finally called 7 at Alabama * TBA TBA sometime after 10 p.m. on Saturday and will not be re-scheduled. The Tigers now go to Starkville to open their season for 14 Arkansas * TBA TBA the second time under Les Miles as LSU and Mississippi State started the 2007 season on Thursday, Aug. 30 (LSU won 21 at Ole Miss * TBA TBA 45-0). The LSU-State game will be televised on ESPN and will carry an 8:15 p.m. CT kickoff. LSU brings a 12-game winning 28 Texas A&M * TBA TBA streak in season-openers into Saturday’s game (Note: Due to cancellation of McNeese game, LSU will now consider the DECEMBER Mississippi State game as its 2015 season-opener). Mississippi State enters the game with a 1-0 record after its 34-16 road 5 SEC Championship Game CBS 3 p.m. win over Southern Miss last week. Last year, Mississippi State snapped LSU’s 14-game winning streak in the series with a Atlanta, Ga. 34-29 victory in Tiger Stadium. That win was the first by the Bulldogs over LSU since a 17-16 victory in Starkville in 1999. LSU QB Brandon Harris will get a second chance at making his second career start on Saturday, both coming on the road against SEC teams. Harris’ first start came at Auburn last year. Miles brings a 103-29 mark with the Tigers into the game, Mississippi State (1-0, 0-0 SEC) making him the second-winningest coach in school history. Overall, Miles is 131-49 in 14 seasons as a head coach (10 at DATE OPPONENT TV RESULT/TIME LSU, 4 at Oklahoma State). LSU returns 14 starters on offense (8) and defense (6) as well as all of its specialists from a SEPTEMBER (1-0) year ago. Leading the way on offense for the Tigers is , who set an LSU freshman record with 1,034 5 at Southern Miss FS1 W, 34-16 Leonard Fournette 12 #14 LSU * ESPN 8:15 p.m. CT rushing yards a year ago. Defensively, the Tigers will be dominant up the middle as LSU returns its two starting defensive 19 Northwestern State SECN 3 p.m. tackles in Christian LaCouture (40 tackles, 2.5 sacks in 2014) and Davon Godchaux (42 tackles, 1.5 TFL in 2014), along 26 at Auburn * TBA TBA with mike linebacker Kendell Beckwith (77 tackles in 2014) and safety Jamal Adams (66 tackles, 5.0 TFL in 2014). OCTOBER 3 at Texas A&M * TBA TBA TALKING POINTS 10 Troy TBA TBA • LSU has won seven straight LSU hasn’t lost a season-opener • Including tight end Dillon 17 Louisiana Tech TBA TBA games against Mississippi State since a 26-8 setback to Virginia Gordon, LSU’s offensive line has 24 Kentucky * TBA TBA in Starkville. LSU’s last loss in Tech in 2002. Les Miles is combined to start 98 games for NOVEMBER Starkville came in 1999 by a 17-16 10-0 in season-openers at LSU, LSU. Senior RT Vadal Alexander 5 at Missouri * TBA TBA count. Overall, LSU has won 14 of which includes a 1-0 record vs. leads the way with 34 starts 14 Alabama * TBA TBA last 15 and 21 of last 23 against Mississippi State. (25 at LG, 9 at RT), followed by 21 at Arkansas * TBA TBA the Bulldogs. LT Jerald Hawkins with 26 (25 28 Ole Miss * TBA TBA • LSU is 5-6-2 all-time in season- at RT, 1 at LT). Others include • Saturday’s date of Sept. 12 will opening games against SEC Gordon with 25 (all at TE), and mark the latest LSU has opened opponents. Ethan Pocic with 13 (8 at RG, 5 a season since 1998 when the • Because of cancellation of at C). Tigers beat Arkansas State 42-6, ON THE AIR McNeese State game, LSU will • LSU has never shied away from on Sept. 12. now open season with two playing true freshmen. Under LSU Sports Radio Network • LSU will be playing its fourth straight SEC games (Mississippi Les Miles, 100 true freshmen Jim Hawthorne, play-by-play straight game away from Tiger State and Auburn). It’s the first have seen the field for the Tigers, Doug Moreau, analyst Stadium on Saturday. It’s the time in school history (dating including 17 in 2014 and 14 in Gordy Rush, sideline longest stretch of games for back to SEC era in 1933) that 2013. Of the players on LSU’s LSU without a home game since LSU will play its first two games depth chart for the McNeese ESPN against SEC opponents. game, 36 of them played as a Dave Pasch, play-by-play 1994-95 when the Tigers played true freshman. In five minutes Brian Griese, analyst their last 2 games on the road in • LSU opened the 2015 season of action against McNeese State, Tom Luginbill, sideline reporter 1994 followed by two road games ranked in the Top 25 for the 15th five true freshmen saw the field to open 1995. straight year, a streak that dates SEC Network (Replay) back to 2001. LSU has played (RB Derrius Guice, RB Nick Sept. 13 at 9 a.m. CT • LSU’s won a school-record 12 127 of its 132 games under Les Brossette, WR Jazz Ferguson, WR/DB , CB Sept. 15 at 8:30 p.m. straight season-openers heading Miles ranked in the Top 25. LSU Donte Jackson Kevin Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. into the Mississippi State contest. is 99-28 in those games. Toliver II). Mississippi State Week 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Labor Day Miles Press Luncheon SEC Teleconference Practice Walk Through GameDay Off Day 11:30 a.m. - Athletic 10 a.m. Miles on call 4 p.m. - McClendon TBA (Closed) LSU at Mississippi State No media availability No Media Availability Building, 5th Floor Practice Facility (Closed) Starkville, Miss. Practice Depart for Mississippi 8:15 p.m. CT • ESPN 1:15 p.m. - Player 4 p.m. - McClendon State Interviews (Indoor Facility) Practice Facility (Closed) TBA Post Game Coach Miles is available Practice 6 p.m. -Miles post practice Road Headquarters: following the game in the 4 p.m. - McClendon interview (Team Room) Ramada press conference room. Practicy Facility (Closed) 1200 Hwy. 45 North Miles Radio Show Players will immediately Columbus, MS 39705 6:30 p.m. - Player 7 p.m. - TJ Ribs (Acadian) follow in press conf. room Interviews (Indoor Facility) WHO TO CONTACT LSU Media Services Communications Office • (225) 578-8226 Michael Bonnette • Sr. Assoc. AD/Communications Director E-mail: [email protected] • Twitter: @LSUBonnette Les Miles Interviews LSU Player Interviews Jake Terry • Associate Communications Director Monday Press Luncheon: “Lunch with Les” LSU players are available to the media on three days E-mail: [email protected] • Twitter: @LSUJake LSU coach Miles meets with the media each Monday of during a typical game week - Mondays, Tuesdays and game week in the press conference room, which is located following the game on Saturday. Interview requests for on the fifth floor of the LSU Athletic Administration the Monday and Tuesday media opportunities should be Building. Lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. (CT) followed by made at least 24 hours in advance and emailed to Michael Bonnette ([email protected]) and Jake Terry (jterry9@lsu. LSU Director of Digital Media comments from the Coach Miles at 12:30 p.m. (CT). Media Todd Politz - [email protected] members can park in Lot 104 (formerly Lot F) on campus, edu). Members of the media are not permitted to contact which is located off Nicholson Drive in front of the track players on their cell phones under any circumstance. Network Operations/SEC Network stadium. A transcript of coach Miles’ opening statement as Kevin Wagner - [email protected] well as the question and answer session can be found on Following the Press Luncheon John Schiebe - [email protected] the Internet at www.LSUsports.net.