The 2017 LSU Tigers football team represented
Louisiana State University in the
2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season
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. The Tigers played their home games at
Tiger Stadium in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana and competed in the Western Division of the
Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by first-year head coach
Ed Orgeron after he led the Tigers as interim head coach for the final eight games of 2016. They finished the season 9–4, 6–2 in SEC play to finish in third place in the Western Division. They were invited to the
Citrus Bowl
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The gam ...
where they lost to
Notre Dame.
The Tigers equaled an
FBS record by committing only eight turnovers during the season, becoming the sixth FBS team to do so. The record would fall
the next season to
Georgia Southern
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, which had only five turnovers.
Recruiting
Position key
Recruits
The Tigers signed a total of 23 recruits.
Roster
Schedule
LSU announced its 2017 football schedule on September 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home, 5 away and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Tigers hosted SEC foes
Arkansas,
Auburn
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* Auburn, New South Wales
* City of Auburn, the local government area
*Electoral district of Auburn
*Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region
*Auburn, South Australia
*Auburn, Tasmania
*Aub ...
, and
Texas A&M, and traveled to
Alabama,
Florida,
Mississippi State,
Ole Miss, and
Tennessee.
The Tigers hosted three of the four non-conference opponents,
Chattanooga
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from the
FCS Southern Conference,
Syracuse
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*Syracuse, Sicily, or spelled as ''Siracusa''
*Province of Syracuse
United States
*Syracuse, New York
**East Syracuse, New York
**North Syracuse, New York
*Syracuse, Indiana
* Syracuse, Kansas
*Syracuse, Miss ...
from the
Atlantic Coast Conference
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and
Troy from the
Sun Belt Conference
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and traveled to
New Orleans to for a neutral site matchup against
independent BYU.
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The game between LSU and BYU was originally scheduled to take place at
NRG Stadium in
Houston, Texas
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. However, due to massive flooding caused by
Hurricane Harvey
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in the Houston area, school and game officials decided to relocate the game to New Orleans.
Rankings
References
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