Country roads won’t lead home to West Virginia in September 2010, but rather to Death Valley.LSU and West Virginia agreed to a two-year contract for a home-and-home football series Thursday afternoon, the first ever meeting between the two teams.The deal schedules the Mountaineers to visit Baton Rouge on Sept. 25, 2010. The Tigers will make the trip to Morgantown, W. Va., on Sept. 24, 2011.”This is a series that is very attractive to fans of both LSU and West Virginia and at the same time, it’s a game that will have a great deal of national attention,” said LSU athletic director Joe Alleva in a news release. LSU senior associate athletic director Verge Ausberry said the Tigers get the first home game because of the program’s need for seven games on the home schedule.”We’ve been working on this for about a year and a half — pushing the dates and rearranging things,” he said. “We had to have the home game in 2010 because our future games are set and we had to have seven games.”Ausberry said the Mountaineers will replace Colorado’s former place on the schedule. The Buffalos were originally slated to play LSU in coming seasons, but was postponed because of conflicts.—-Contact David Helman at [email protected]
Football:Tigers to play WVU in home-and-home
By David Helman
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
February 26, 2009