LSU vs. Syracuse
LSU and Syracuse have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1964; officially, LSU leads 2–1; as played, 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s LSU 3–1, and LSU has won the last 2. The NCAA vacated LSU’s win (2015); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
- Official series
- LSU leads 2–1
- LSU wins on file
- 3
- Syracuse wins on file
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1964
- Longest streak
- 2 LSU
- Current streak
- 2 LSU
- Last 10 meetings
- LSU 3–1
- Most recent
- 2017
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: LSU 0, Syracuse 1
- Average margin
- 8.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At LSU
- 1–0 LSU’s record at home
- At Syracuse
- 0–1 Syracuse’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–1 LSU first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Leonard Fournette LSU | 26 carries, 244 yards, 2 TD | 2015 Rushing |
Named most valuable
| Robert Drummond Syracuse | 1988 |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
Every game
| Sep 23, 2017 | 25LSU 35, Syracuse 26 | at LSU | ||
| Sep 26, 2015 | 8LSU 34, Syracuse 24vacated | at Syracuse | ||
| Jan 2, 1989 | 17Syracuse 23, 16LSU 10 | Neutral site | Hall of Fame Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1965 | 6LSU 13, Syracuse 10 | Neutral site | Sugar Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.