Football fans in South Carolina can now start making travel plans to watch their teams this coming September. On Wednesday, ESPN, the SEC, and the ACC announced kickoff times for most of the early games for the Gamecocks, Tigers, and Chanticleers.
Clemson’s highly anticipated road test at LSU had already been set for a 7:30pm kickoff on September 5th. The Tigers will follow that with back-to-back home games against Georgia Southern (7:30pm) and North Carolina (12 noon).
USC begins its season with a 12:45pm home kickoff against Kent State on September 5th, before playing host to Towson at 7pm the following Saturday. The Gamecocks’ SEC opener against Mississippi State in Columbia will start at 4:15 on September 19th.
Coastal Carolina kicks off the “Ryan Beard Era” in Morgantown, West Virginia, against the Mountaineers at 12 noon on September 5th. The Chanticleers’ home opener is the following weekend against Fordham at 7:30pm. CCU also announced on Wednesday that the school has agreed to play a non-conference game versus Oregon on Sept. 11, 2027, at Oregon’s Autzen Stadium. It will be Coastal’s second game against a Big Ten opponent and second on the West Coast. CCU opened the 2008 season at Penn State before traveling to UCLA in 2023. The game against the Bruins took place while they were still members of the PAC-12 before joining the Big Ten Conference a year later.
