BATON ROUGE – Riding a six-game winning streak, LSU’s Fighting Tigers (6-1) travel to College Station for another primetime SEC road test against Texas A&M (6-1) on Saturday night at Kyle Field.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:44 PM CT on ABC and the LSU Sports Radio Network. Chris Fowler (pxp), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Holly Rowe (sideline) will be in attendance.

The Tigers are coming off an impressive 34-10 victory over Arkansas in Fayetteville. Sophomore linebacker Whit Weeks turned in his best performance in an LSU uniform with nine tackles, one sack, one interception and a pass breakup, leading the team to a big win in a hostile environment.

This Saturday will be no different as more than 102,000+ will cheer for the home Aggies at a sold out Kyle Field. It’s up to the Tigers, head coach Brian Kelly says, to go there and lay it all on the line as the bye week approaches.

“You have to go into that stadium and take something from them,” Kelly said Thursday. “They’re not going to give it to you. That requires incredible desire and will. You don’t want to spend the whole of next week, if you don’t have a game, with regrets.”

LSU, behind a 100-yard rusher in Caden Durham, a defensive standout in Weeks, and an unsung hero in kicker Damian Ramos, started fast and finished strong in one of the most complete performances of the season. It was four quarters of LSU Football.

“The first time we played on the street, I thought we were being reactive,” Kelly said. “We waited for something to happen. We didn’t wait for this game. That’s how we have to play this weekend against an excellent A&M team.”

Ramos, who converted 12 of his 14 field goal attempts and 25 of 25 extra points, has given the Tigers the confidence to get three points when they need to. It’s a position that is thankless and often doesn’t get the attention it deserves, but Ramos has been an unsung hero to this team’s success through seven games.

“His mechanics and his routine are so impeccable in terms of what he does,” Kelly said. “His ability to repeat his mechanics really sets him apart, so when it comes time to kick, it’s push play.”

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As November approaches, the stories will only continue to swirl. This Saturday will play a huge role in determining the SEC race and ultimately the College Football Playoff race. For Coach Kelly, the message was clear: control the controllables.

“This is a week-to-week thing,” Kelly said. “Whatever the stories are, whatever people say, we’ve already talked about it (as a staff). What really matters is what you can control. Control what is controllable.”

The Aggies are led by second-year quarterback Conner Weigman, who has 718 yards passing and three touchdowns. Junior running back Le’Veon Moss has tallied 674 yards on the ground for eight touchdowns, an average of 6.4 yards per touch. Noah Thomas leads the team in receiving with 21 receptions for 289 yards and three touchdowns.

Defensively, A&M is led in tackles by Taurean York, who has totaled 40 tackles and 1.5 sacks. Defensive backs Will Lee III and Dalton Brooks are both second with 28 apiece.

“Mike Elko is doing a great job with this football team in his first year,” Kelly said. “Very similar to what our team has done. We lost the opener, they lost the opener, and they’re playing better and better every week. They are very balanced in attack. Conner Weigman is a very good quarterback. He has very good weapons.”

To put this matchup in perspective, the home team has won the last seven meetings in the series, including a 42-30 LSU win last year at Tiger Stadium. The Aggies have won their last three games against LSU at Kyle Field, including a 38-23 win in the 2022 regular season finale. LSU’s last win at Kyle Field came in 2016 by a count of 54-39.