The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and NC State Wolfpack have adjusted the season and location of their future football game, according to a report from LA Tech Sports Central.
Louisiana Tech and NC State agreed to a three-game football series back in 2017, with the first two games scheduled to be played in Raleigh, N.C., on Oct. 2, 2021 and then again three seasons later on Sept. 14, 2024. The Wolfpack won both contests, 34-27 and 30-20, respectively.
The third and final game of the series was originally slated for Sept. 6, 2025 at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, La. However, the game was later rescheduled for the 2034 season via an amendment to the contract.
According to the LA Tech Sports Central report, the game in 2034 has now been moved up seven seasons and the location has changed as well. Louisiana Tech will now travel to face NC State a third time in Raleigh on Oct. 2, 2027.
As part of the agreement to change the location of the game from Ruston to Raleigh, NC State will pay Louisiana Tech a $1 million guarantee, per the report.
In their only other gridiron meeting, NC State defeated Louisiana Tech 40-14 on Aug. 31, 2013 in Raleigh.
With the change, both schools have now tentatively completed their non-conference schedules for the 2027 season. Louisiana Tech is scheduled to open its 2027 non-conference slate on Sept. 11 at home against the Nicholls Colonels. The Bulldogs will then visit the Kansas Jayhawks on Sept. 18 and host the South Alabama Jaguars on Sept. 25.
NC State’s 2027 non-conference schedule also features home contests against the North Carolina A&T Aggies on Sept. 11 and the Kansas State Wildcats on Sept. 25, with a home tilt against the Texas Tech Red Raiders sandwiched in between.
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Back in 2021, Tech and NC State had agreed to push the Ruston leg of a 3 game contract out to 2034.
Now, the game will be played on 10/2/2027 in Raleigh instead of Ruston. NC State will pay Tech $1 million for the location change.
— LA Tech Sports Central (@latechsportsctl) February 12, 2025
I´m sick and tired of P4 teams not to play at a G5 school when they´ve already agreed to do so, I feel like this sort of thing has happened a lot and it needs to end.
I would have thought the “going rate” for turning this from a home game into an away game would have been more than $1 million.
Of course, maybe NC State had a buyout clause they could lever for a less than “going rate” move of the game site.
Any sub-P4 agreeing an away-away-home 2:1 contract ought to insist on quite a steep buyout of its home game after making the two away appearances.
G5 & FCS are very important to P4 teams now with extended travel for conference games.
No surprise here. Power schools don’t want to play G5 schools away from home.
I’m still surprised Missouri paid a visit to Massachusetts last fall.
If they don´t want to play G5 schools for an away game they shouldn´t have agreed to do so in the first place
@BYUfan Sadly contracts are made to be broken, and as many P4 schools have demonstrated, they knowingly enter these home and home dates to assure the immediate open date to be filled is satisfied while buying themselves time to renegotiate/search for opportunities to host the future date with another school on their turf. In Missouri/Umass’ case, Mizzou may not have been able to find anyone else to replace UMass in time to reschedule.
I know what you’re saying Reverend, it´s just really annoying when this sort of thing happens, schools themselves have WAY too much power when it comes to scheduling, it´s part of why I want the Big 10 and SEC to do this scheduling partnership they´ve been talking about because it would be the first step in taking the power away from the schools which, if it happens, helps stop them from walking out of agreements like this.
I agree with everything you’ve written in this chain, BYUfan.
Fortunately, the B1G-SEC duopoly means its schools won’t ever cancel on each other.
Oh, wait a minute, didn’t Nebraska just cancel on Tennessee?
@BYUfan I’m with you, if we’re going to have the G6 participating in the FBS we should atleast see those same schools host games against the P4, otherwise, as you rightly called out, just end the OOC games against them.
Jesper, Nebraska-Tennessee is different from the proposed Big 10-SEC scheduling partnership because it would be between the conferences and not the schools but the former was between the schools themselves so they could cancel it.
I wonder, how many P4 teams will visit G5s in the next few years?
I have a feeling Kansas at LA Tech will go the same way.