| The 2025 LSU football schedule looks kind of like someone held the 2024 schedule up to a mirror and just jotted everything down. The Southeastern Conference released its schedule for next season on Wednesday. The schedule remains at eight games and, despite the addition of Texas and Oklahoma, simply has schools flip-flopping each team's home and road games. The home opponents for LSU or any SEC team in 2024 will be their road opponents in '25, and whoever LSU played on the road will be their Tiger Stadium guests. The word "guests" leads us to "guess," to which the answer is yours is as good as mine as to when the SEC will finally come up with a permanent scheduling format and whether it will include eight or nine games. In my column I suggest the 2025 schedule kind of balances the rough spots with the favors done by the schedule makers (to wit, no Georgia for LSU in 2024 or '25) but doesn't address key issues from the 2024 "Band-Aid" schedule. The football focus Wednesday was supposed to be on LSU spring practice and player interviews. Well, we have that covered for you as well with, a look at what players say it will take to get the Tigers to 10 wins this season and beyond. Also, we tell you about a couple of freshman that were spotted running with the first-team offense. Of course, the NCAA women's basketball tournament cranks up at LSU on Friday with two games: Louisville-Middle Tennessee at 12:30 p.m. and LSU-Rice at 3 p.m. Thursday is news conference day at the PMAC, and we'll of course bring all the coverage to you on that as well. Our Reed Darcey gives you five things to look for in the NCAA Tournament, and we tell you where Angel Reese and Aneesah Morrow landed on The Associated Press All-America team. That's all for today, kids. Get your brackets busted, I mean, ready to win and we'll see you once the Madness trully takes off. Scott Rabalais | 
