BATON ROUGE — For the second time in
three years, LSU will be one of the featured matchups on the opening
weekend of the college
football season as the Tigers will face TCU in the 2013 Cowboys
Classic in Arlington, Texas, the schools announced on Tuesday.
The 2013 Cowboys Classic featuring LSU and TCU will take place on Saturday, Aug. 31 and will be televised by either ABC, ESPN
or ESPN2.
“The Cowboys Classic has become one of
the premier events in college football and we are excited about making
another appearance
there to start the 2013 season on national television, “ LSU Vice
Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva said. “The
Dallas-Fort Worth area is also rich with LSU supporters and we
look forward to taking the Tigers to a great LSU following.”
Next year’s season-opener will mark the second time that the Tigers will appear in the Cowboys Classic as fourth-ranked LSU
beat third-ranked Oregon, 40-27, to open the 2011 season at the event in Arlington.
The LSU-TCU matchup will be the first
between the teams since 1968 when the Tigers beat the Horned Frogs,
10-7, in Tiger Stadium.
LSU leads the series with TCU, 5-2-1. LSU and TCU first met on
Jan. 1, 1936 in the Sugar Bowl with the Horned Frogs winning,
3-2.
The LSU-TCU contest will mark the fifth
year of the Cowboys Classic, a contest that is a partnership between
ESPN and the
Dallas Cowboys to bring the top college football game to the
Cowboys Stadium during the Labor Day holiday weekend each season.