No. 1-ranked LSU football team will storm the field before lunch time Saturday for its 11:20 a.m. match up with the Kentucky Wildcats.
The Southeastern Conference announced the early kickoff time last Monday because of a scheduling conflict with CBS’s Saturday time slots.
CBS chose not to televise the LSU-Kentucky game, turning it over to the SEC Network, which is operated by ESPN, though the game will be broadcast on the local CBS affiliate. The early start time is so that the game will not compete with CBS’s other televised games.
While LSU players are mostly unfamiliar with playing so early, they said that the game will be business as usual.
Sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu said he played around 10 or 11 a.m. routinely as a kid.
“Everybody’s excited because it’s like pee-wee football again,” Mathieu said. “We all used to wake up early and go straight to the park, and this is a lot like