BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Southeastern Conference home opener against Auburn on Sept. 19 will be televised by CBS and will kickoff at 2:30 p.m., the league office announced on Thursday.
This year’s Auburn game will serve as the annual Gold Game for LSU.
The LSU-Auburn game announcement was part of CBS’s early-season television release which includes Louisville vs. Auburn on Sept. 5 in Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff and Georgia at Vanderbilt on Sept. 12.
CBS will televise SEC games during the first two weeks of the season for the first time since the network no longer carries the U.