{"id":80261,"date":"2025-12-08T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80261\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:47:24","slug":"lsu-to-play-houston-in-texas-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80261\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU to Play Houston in Texas Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the second year in a row, and third time in five years, LSU\u2019s football season will conclude in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LSU will once again head to Houston to take on\u2026well, Houston in the 2025 Kinder\u2019s Texas Bowl. Last year LSU beat Baylor in this same exact venue and this time around they\u2019ll try their hands with the Cougs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This year\u2019s Texas Bowl is scheduled to take place on Saturday December 27 with kickoff scheduled for 8:15 P.M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Houston\u2019s got themselves a pretty good squad this year. At 9-3, Houston was ranked #21 in the latest CFP Poll, and while they aren\u2019t ranked in this week\u2019s AP Poll, they received the most votes in the \u201cothers receiving votes\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Tigers and Cougars have only played three times\u2014all three games coming in Baton Rouge\u2014and the most recent meeting came way back in 2000. LSU won that game in Tiger Stadium 28-13 and have won two of the three games played in this series. LSU also beat Houston in 1996 35-34 but lost 20-7 in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This won\u2019t be the last time LSU and Houston cross paths. The two are scheduled to open the 2027 season in NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second year in a row, and third time in five years, LSU\u2019s football season will conclude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39153,300,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-80261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2025-lsu-football","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}