The LSU Tigers and the Baylor Bears play in the Texas Bowl on December 31, 2024, with kickoff at 3:30 p.m. ET, airing on ESPN.The Tigers head into this matchup following a 37-17 win over the

The last time LSU played in the Texas Bowl, head coach Brian Kelly watched his new team from a suite. LSU played with 38 available scholarship players amid a coaching change, its roster so worn down by injuries and attrition that a wide receiver filled in at quarterback.

Baylor is heading south for bowl season but staying in-state to try and ring in the new year with a win over LSU when the two teams face off in the Kinder’s Texas Bowl, the bowl committee announced on Sunday.

Baylor and LSU will meet in the Dec. 31 Kinder’s Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium, organizers announced Sunday. After starting the season 2-4, prompting calls for coach Dave Aranda’s job, the Bears put together a remarkable turnaround and enter the bowl season as one of the hottest teams in the nation with a six-game winning streak.

Texas Bowl tickets are available for purchase. Prices on StubHub are listed from $95 to more than $300 for a single ticket. On Ticketmaster, one ticket is going from $75 to $200-plus. Lowest priced tickets on Vivid Seats are going for $85 while on Seat Geek, tickets are as low as $88.

Longtime Baylor play-by-play announcer John Morris is being honored tonight in Las Vegas as the 2024 Chris Schenkel Award winner. Morris has been "The Voice of the Baylor Bears" for over 30 years and is receiving the honor from the National Football Foundation.

In this year’s Texas Bowl, the Baylor Bears are underdogs, but by less than a touchdown (+3), against the LSU Tigers. The action begins at 3:30 p.m. ET on December 31, 2024, airing on ESPN

Baylor won’t have to leave the state for its bowl matchup as the Bears are set to face LSU in the Kinder’s Texas Bowl at Houston’s NRG Stadium. The Texas Bowl annually pits a Big 12 team against an SEC team. Baylor last played in the Texas Bowl in 2018, when the Bears beat Vanderbilt 45-38.

It will be the first meeting between LSU and Baylor on the gridiron since the 1985 Liberty Bowl. LSU leads the overall series with the Bears, 8-3. The Tigers, winners of their last two games, stand at 8-4 overall after closing the regular-season with victories over Vanderbilt and Oklahoma.