BATON ROUGE — The LSU Tigers will welcome the UCLA Bruins on Saturday for a daytime contest in Tiger Stadium.The WBRZ Storm Station says the contest will be played in some of the hottest conditions in stadium history. A 2005 contest against Tennessee was played in a heat index of 103. Saturday’s game should be almost as hot, with an air temperature of about 92 and humidity making it feel like 100.LSU enters the game with a 2-1 record; it lost to UCLA’s crosstown rival Southern California in Week 1, then beat Nicholls and South Carolina.UCLA is 1-1. It opened the season with a win at Hawaii and lost last weekend to Indiana.The Tigers are a 22.5-point favorite. LSU has a 98-45-5 record in day games played at Tiger Stadium, a winning percentage of 68 percent. The nighttime winning percentage is 75 percent.The game is one of 11 among Louisiana college football games this weekend. Others are:Alcorn State at McNeese StateJackson State at GramblingLangston at Louisiana ChristianLouisiana-Monroe at Texas Mississippi Valley at NichollsSouth Dakota State at SoutheasternSouthern at Prairie ViewTulane at Louisiana-LafayetteTulsa at Louisiana TechWeber State at Northwestern StatePermalink| Comments
BATON ROUGE — The LSU Tigers will welcome the UCLA Bruins on Saturday for a daytime contest in Tiger Stadium.
The WBRZ Storm Station says the contest will be played in some of the hottest conditions in stadium history. A 2005 contest against Tennessee was played in a heat index of 103. Saturday’s game should be almost as hot, with an air temperature of about 92 and humidity making it feel like 100.
LSU enters the game with a 2-1 record; it lost to UCLA’s crosstown rival Southern California in Week 1, then beat Nicholls and South Carolina.
UCLA is 1-1. It opened the season with a win at Hawaii and lost last weekend to Indiana.
The Tigers are a 22.5-point favorite.
LSU has a 98-45-5 record in day games played at Tiger Stadium, a winning percentage of 68 percent. The nighttime winning percentage is 75 percent.
The game is one of 11 among Louisiana college football games this weekend. Others are:
Alcorn State at McNeese State
Jackson State at Grambling
Langston at Louisiana Christian
Louisiana-Monroe at Texas
Mississippi Valley at Nicholls
South Dakota State at Southeastern
Southern at Prairie View
Tulane at Louisiana-Lafayette
Tulsa at Louisiana Tech
Weber State at Northwestern State