The No. 12 LSU football team’s Nov. 6 tilt with Alabama will kick off at 2:30 p.m. on CBS, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday.
 
The game will be the Tigers’ third appearance on CBS this year, along with a last-gasp win against Tennessee and Saturday’s 24-17 loss to Auburn.
 
The loss dropped the Tigers as many as seven spots in some polls, while Auburn climbed to No. 3 in the polls and No. 1 in the Bowl Championship Series.
 
Alabama, meanwhile, has recovered from a loss to No. 20 South Carolina to reach No. 7 in the BCS — the highest-ranked one-loss team in the poll. The Crimson Tide are coming off a 41-10 drubbing of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn., this past weekend.
 
This will be the fourth-straight season the Tigers and Crimson Tide will meet on CBS. The game has been one of the most anticipated matchups in college football since Alabama hired former LSU coach Nick Saban in 2007.
 
LSU defeated the Crimson Tide, 41-34, in a 2:30 p.m. CBS telecast on the way to its national championship in 2007. But Alabama has taken the past two meetings — both of them 2:30 kickoffs — winning the 2008 meeting, 27-21, in overtime at Tiger Stadium and taking the 2009 edition, 24-15.
 
Both LSU and Alabama have bye weeks this weekend before squaring off.
 
LSU is 14-1 following losses under coach Les Miles. The Tigers are also 4-1 following scheduled bye weeks under Miles. LSU has defeated Tennessee, Alabama and Auburn following scheduled bye weeks, while the Tigers lost, 51-21, to Florida following their 2008 bye week.
 
LSU did not have a scheduled bye week in Miles’ first season because of complications caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
 
 
 
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