It’s official. The LSU Tigers will open next year’s football season in Cowboys Stadium in a primetime game against TCU, the schools announced today. The 2013 Cowboys Classic will take place on Saturday, Aug. 31, and will be televised by 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 says in a prepared statement. “The Dallas-Fort Worth area is also rich with LSU supporters, and we look forward to taking the Tigers to a great LSU following.” Cowboys Stadium was primarily filled with purple and gold when the Tigers downed the Oregon Ducks 40-27 in the 2011 Cowboys Classic to open last season. The 2013 LSU-TCU matchup will be the first of these two 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 Cowboys Stadium during the Labor Day holiday weekend each season.
2013 Cowboys Classic confirmed
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