LSU 51-10 Clemson (Sep 5, 2026) Final Score

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No. 11 LSU1-051Final

Sat, Sep 5 · Tiger Stadium (LA), Baton Rouge, La. · Crowd 102,321

No. 11 LSU routed No. 23 Clemson 51-10.

We had Clemson favored. LSU won.

Next: Clemson beat Georgia Southern 22-7, Sat Sep 12

Next: LSU beat Louisiana Tech 45-14, Sat Sep 12

Top comment in the game thread

It's okay you guys, Leavitt just didn't want to complete 5 passes this early in the game out of respect for Jayden Daniels.

Q1 14:30 · r/CFB game thread · Sat, Sep 5

How it swung

Before kickoff, our ratings gave LSU a 41% chance, and the closing betting line (LSU was a 10-point favorite) put it at 79%.

Pick-six

LSU · Q1 2:07

FinalLSU 51-10 ClemsonLSU wonMove across the chart, or tap a numbered swing, to see any play.

No single play moved the chance by 20 points.

What fans said, play by play

The line in bold above each quote is written by our model from the thread’s comments and the play-by-play.

Q1 14:30Leavitt throws early interception, sparking chaos and hatewatching in the threadQuoted at the top of the page.
Q1 2:07Ross intercepts Vizzina for a touchdown as LSU fans celebrate the pick-sixOoooh this may get uglyr/CFB game thread

LSU’s chance to win after every play.

How to read this chart

Starts from the pregame line (LSU -10), at 83% for LSU (the play-by-play feed's kickoff number, moved to match the line; our model's and the betting line's own numbers are in “The betting line, and the fans”). Dots are the biggest swings; ticks under the chart are scores. Outlined diamonds mark rare plays. Under the scores, r/CFB comments per minute from fans with a LSU or Clemson flair (1,784 and 1,193); both sides share one scale, regulation only. A gold diamond marks a play fans were reacting to.

Kickoff came 2 hours 10 minutes late. Thunder was reported at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (8.9 miles away) from 5:40 p.m. to 6:03 p.m., around the delay.

Watch the plays

The bar and the arrow show LSU’s chance to win after each play; the logo is the team the play helped.

Every drive

LSU scored on 7 of its 12 drives; Clemson on 2 of its 13.

LSU’s drives are teal, Clemson’s amber. A line runs from where a drive started to where it ended; a filled dot means it scored.

“On the second play of the game!”

A Clemson fan

When fans got loud

Busy

The jump was busy; the crowd was loud.

Two crowds, one game

The words each side’s fans used far more than the other side, from the game thread.

LSU fans

lane“Bro lane with the “imagine if we had pro players” half time interview *insane*”

Clemson fans

dabo“Thank god, it's over. Please let the Dabo era be over after tonight, this was brutal to watch.”

least“Put Tate in! Vizzina is not playing well but his O line is playing like a wet blanket, we need a QB who can at least somewhat scramble out.”

look“Look, we may not be able to run the ball, throw the ball, stop the run, or stop the pass but”

former“Dabo started hiring all of his former players as coaches instead of the likes of Tony Elliott, Brent Venables and Jeff Scott. They can’t coach.”

Both sets of fans kept coming back to: getting, coach, start, put.

What it cost

Clemson’s chance to make the playoff fell from 13% to 9%.

Make the playoff

Clemson · lost13% → ▼9%

LSU · won19% → ▲23%

Win the conference

Clemson · lost8% → ▼7%

LSU · won2% → 2%

Before the game (September 4, 2026) → after this result, in our model.

Box score

LSU 51, Clemson 10

LSU covered −10 by 31. The total, 61, went over 48.5.

Team totals	Clemson	LSU
Total yards	145	644
Passing	14 of 22, 105 yds	22 of 36, 335 yds
Rushing	26 for 40 yds	58 for 309 yds
First downs	8	37
Third down	1 of 13	11 of 16
Fourth down	0 of 0	1 of 1
Turnovers	1	1
Penalties	5 for 41 yds	6 for 75 yds
Time of possession	23:51	36:09

Clemson leaders

Passing Christopher Vizzina 10 of 16, 83 yds, 1 INT
Rushing Jarvis Green 4 for 21 yds; Gideon Davidson 7 for 20 yds
Receiving T.J. Moore 4 for 31 yds; Bryant Wesco Jr. 2 for 29 yds

LSU leaders

Passing Sam Leavitt 16 of 28, 230 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT
Rushing Sam Leavitt 12 for 113 yds, 2 TD; Dilin Jones 23 for 113 yds, 2 TD
Receiving Winston Watkins 7 for 110 yds, 1 TD; Phillip Wright III 3 for 70 yds, 1 TD

Kickoff came 2 hours 10 minutes late

76° at kickoff · no rain during play; another 0.08 in fell before the late kickoff · wind 3 mph from the northeast, gusts to 8

Thunder was reported at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (8.9 miles away) from 5:40 p.m. to 6:03 p.m., around the delay.

September game-day temperatures at Tiger Stadium (LA)

Drag along the chart, or step through the game.

First quarter, 14:49 left8:42 p.m.

Clemson 0, LSU 0 · LSU 83% to win

no rain · wind 1 mph from the north-northwest · 76°

Leavitt 8-yd pass to Wilson

Where this weather comes from

Measured at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, 8.9 miles away. The paler thunder bar is thunder reported in the vicinity of an airport. Rain is NOAA's radar-and-gauge estimate at the stadium and wind is an airport reading; neither is measured on the field. Game times come from the play-by-play, good to a minute or two. Source: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet; rain radar from NOAA MRMS, through Iowa State University. Field direction from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Before kickoff

Recent games, the series and the betting line below are as they stood going in; the season profile is the season so far.

Recent games

Last three games · 2025 season

Clemson · 7-6

Rated 11th in our preseason ratings.

L 10-22 vs Penn StateTop 25 #9 of 667

lost by 12 as a 2.5-point favorite

W 28-14 @ South CarolinaTop 25 #31 of 667

won by 14 as a 2.5-point underdog

W 45-10 vs Furman #217 of 667

won by 35 as a 43.5-point favorite

W 20-19 @ LouisvilleTop 25 #34 of 667

won by 1 as a 2.5-point underdog

W 24-10 vs Florida StateTop 25 #29 of 667

won by 14 as a 1.5-point favorite

L 45-46 vs Duke #53 of 667

lost by 1 as a 4.5-point favorite

L 24-35 vs SMUTop 25 #21 of 667

lost by 11 as a 5.5-point favorite

W 41-10 @ Boston College #99 of 667

won by 31 as a 13.5-point favorite

W 38-10 @ North Carolina #86 of 667

won by 28 as a 15.5-point favorite

L 21-34 vs Syracuse #50 of 667

lost by 13 as a 17.5-point favorite

L 21-24 @ Georgia TechTop 25 #40 of 667

lost by 3 as a 2.5-point favorite

W 27-16 vs Troy #80 of 667

won by 11 as a 29.5-point favorite

L 10-17 vs LSUTop 25 #9 of 667

lost by 7 as a 5.5-point favorite

Last three games · 2025 season

LSU · 7-6

Rated 31st in our preseason ratings.

L 35-38 @ HoustonTop 25 #61 of 667

lost by 3 as a 1.5-point underdog

L 13-17 @ OklahomaTop 25 #13 of 667

lost by 4 as an 11.5-point underdog

W 13-10 vs Western Kentucky #82 of 667

won by 3 as a 25.5-point favorite

W 23-22 vs Arkansas #32 of 667

won by 1 as a 4.5-point favorite

L 9-20 @ AlabamaTop 25 #7 of 667

lost by 11 as a 10.5-point underdog

L 25-49 vs Texas A&MTop 25 #9 of 667

lost by 24 as a 1.5-point underdog

L 24-31 @ VanderbiltTop 25 #27 of 667

lost by 7 as a 1.5-point underdog

W 20-10 vs South CarolinaTop 25 #24 of 667

won by 10 as an 8.5-point favorite

L 19-24 @ Ole MissTop 25 #4 of 667

lost by 5 as a 3.5-point underdog

W 56-10 vs SE Louisiana #150 of 667

won by 46 as a 48.5-point favorite

W 20-10 vs FloridaTop 25 #14 of 667

won by 10 as a 5.5-point favorite

W 23-7 vs Louisiana Tech #147 of 667

won by 16 as a 36.5-point favorite

W 17-10 @ ClemsonTop 25 #16 of 667

won by 7 as a 5.5-point underdog

Matchups

Biggest mismatch: Clemson’s passing EPA against LSU, 94 points

Each row ranks the two sides among all teams. The longer the line, the bigger the mismatch.

Clemson’s EPA/play against LSU’s defense
Clemson offense, 8th percentile · LSU defense, 99th
Clemson’s passing EPA against LSU’s defense
Clemson offense, 5th percentile · LSU defense, 99th
Clemson’s explosive plays against LSU’s defense
Clemson offense, 17th percentile · LSU defense, 83rd

Season profile, all the rows

Season profile

ClemsonLSU

EPA/play, offense

EPA/play, defense

Success rate, offense

Success rate, defense

Explosive-play rate, offense

Explosive-play rate, defense

Rush EPA, offense

Rush EPA, defense

Pass EPA, offense

Pass EPA, defense

The series

LSU leads the series 4-1

5 meetings since 1958 · LSU has won the last 2

2025LSU 17-10
2019 · neutral siteLSU 42-25The 2019 game and what was said
2012 · neutral siteClemson 25-24
1996 · neutral siteLSU 10-7
1958 · neutral siteLSU 7-0

Each line is LSU’s chance to win through that meeting. Older meetings have no play by play, so no line.

Line, fans and home field

The betting line, and the fans

Clemson fans are feeling it less than most fanbases this week (33rd among FBS fanbases), and the other side is no happier.

LSU favored by 10 · Total 48.5

How games like this usually go

LSU by 10, and it went to form

Half of games8 in 10 gamesThis game

The band is where a favorite’s chance ran in the 385 games since 2025 with a favorite of 7.5 to 14.5 points.

The market

The spread moved 1.5 points toward Clemson.

The books’ cut: 4.2%, the margin built into the odds

Weather at kickoff

Warm and dry. Feels like 81° at kickoff.

Clemson at LSU · Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026 · Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge

81°feels like at kickoff
Dryno rain at kickoff
84weather score, Mixed
2ndbest of the day's 7 kickoff times

At kickoff, Sept. 5, 2026.

Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better, for the first 3 hours and 20 minutes of the game. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.

Later kickoff times scored higher that Saturday

Games in this time zone used 7 kickoff times that day, local time (kickoffs within 30 minutes of each other count as one). This game, ringed, was the second best of the day's seven kickoff times. At Tiger Stadium that day, a 7 pm kickoff would have scored 96, against 84 at 6 pm.

11 am: 50, Rough
noon: 47, Harsh
2:30 pm: 46, Harsh
3:15 pm: 50, Rough
4 pm: 54, Rough
6 pm: 84, Mixed (this game)
7 pm: 96, Comfortable

Weather score at each kickoff time.

Tap a dot to read that kickoff time.

At kickoff, Sept. 5, 2026. Wind is not drawn here; gusts are in each score.

Home field

LSU is worth +7.1 points (±3.7) more at home than on the road since 2018 — top tenth of FBS, 92nd percentile.

82% at home, 50% on the road against FBS opponents (42-9 home, 19-19 away).

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads +2.6 at home vs. away over 97 games — inside the ±5.6 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.

Night kickoff — historically worth about half a point more to the home side against the number, and not much more than that. The visitors travel about 568 miles to get here.

The story going in

Clemson names Vizzina starting QBSep 1, 2026

Last meeting in our History pages

LSU 17, Clemson 10Aug 30, 2025

Our History pages cover 2 of their meetings since 2020.

No. 11 LSU routs No. 23 Clemson 51-10