re: Is there any information regarding LSU wanting to play a football game in Ireland?

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Haven't see anything else about this since it was initially reported they want to make it happen. Is there any movement on this whatsoever yet?

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Nothing more than trying to connect the dots. Somebody posted a couple wks ago about Verge teasing a Week zero game in the future. We aint lining up to play Hawaii so the only other qualifier for a week zero schedule is an international game like Ireland.

Play the 2027 opener against ND in Ireland. Sounds like a great game.

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Thoroughly enjoyed going to Lambeau

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two of the best most rabid encamps atmospheres in America.

neither game played on campus.

those two games should have been night games in Death Valley and Camp Randall.

Only reason I'd be interested is to see how many of our fans make the trip and how much damage they could do at the pubs. As for the football aspect off it, I'd rather play at actual college venues rather than all these neutral sites all the time.

There's been six college football games in Dublin this century. Navy played Notre Dame back in 2012, then in 2014 Penn State played UCF, and in 2016 Georgia Tech played Boston College.

Notre Dame were supposed to play Navy in 2020 but that was cancelled due to the Covid lockdowns, and rearranged for three years later.

Since 2022 they've had the 'Aer Lingus College Football Classic' each Week 0 to start the season. In 2022 it was Nebraska-Northwestern, in 2023 Notre Dame-Navy and in 2024 Florida State-Georgia Tech.

In 2025 it's scheduled to be Iowa State-Kansas State in Farmaggedon, and in 2027 it's Pittsburgh-Wisconsin. All of these games, with the exception of the 2014 one, have been at the Aviva Stadium, the home of the Ireland soccer and rugby national teams, which has a capacity for college football of around 47,000. (If and when an NFL game, likely a Pittsburgh Steelers game, is played here, it will almost certainly be at the 82,000 capacity Croke Park, Ireland's national (GAA) stadium).

The current series of games are sponsored by Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus, and supported by the Irish government. They basically pay the teams to come over here to help promote tourism to Ireland. Most of the tickets that go to US fans are sold via travel packages that usually involve at least a five day stay. And if you like golf, there's the option for an awful lot of that.

They've already had Notre Dame (several times), a Big Ten team, ACC teams and this coming summer Big 12 teams. I understand that they would love to bring over an SEC team, and given that Brian Kelly was here in 2012 (and involved in the planning for the 2020 game that never came to pass) it was an obvious avenue to explore with him.

Plus LSU is one of the SEC teams that is historically open to playing week 0 neutral site games (though I appreciate that recent results in them understandably impact fans' views on their suitability). If they do bring an SEC team over then I expect it would be against either a G5 or lower level P4 team.

Given the capacity of the Aviva Stadium, and the fact that the last two games have sold out, I can't see LSU-ND ever happening, as both fan bases are just too big when combined together. ND took a record 40,000 fans here in 2022 and LSU I would imagine could bring 20,000-30,000 at least, so the organisers would rather bring them both, if they could, but in different years.

I'd say you'd be more likely to see something like LSU-Memphis. LSU-Houston, or LSU-Purdue than an all SEC game with LSU, or LSU-ND, if it were to happen. The earliest it could happen is August 2026; if not then, then 2028 is the next open date.

We should play in Greenland send in the invasion force disguised as fans !

Bk mentioned this. Doubt he’s will be here in 3 years anyway

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Ireland doesn't have any cities that could reasonably get the EAUX treatment

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Arklow--> Arkleaux

Carlow --> Carleaux

Wicklow --> Wickleaux

Mallow --> Malleaux

Though the largest stadium in those cities only has 11,000 capacity.

There is a Nowlan (Neauxlan) Park in Kilkenny that has 27,000 capacity. That's about the best I can find.