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Ole Miss will be the first non-top five opponent for LSU on Dec. 19 through four games

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LSU nose tackle Tyler Shelvin tackles Ole Miss wide receiver Elijah Moore in the Tigers' 58-37 win at Ole Miss last season. The Southeastern Conference office announced Friday that LSU will host Ole Miss on Dec. 19 in a game originally scheduled for Dec. 5.

BATON ROUGE - LSU is now scheduled to get all 10 of its regular season games played this season.

The Tigers will host Ole Miss on Dec. 19, the Southeastern Conference office said Friday, to make up a game that was scheduled for Saturday.

The likelihood of this scheduling swap was reported first here on Nov. 13.

The Dec. 5 LSU-Ole Miss game was postponed so LSU and Alabama could make up a game on that date which was originally scheduled for Nov. 14 at Tiger Stadium, but it was postponed because of COVID-19.

LSU (3-4) plays No. 1 Alabama (8-0) at 7 p.m. Saturday on CBS.

Ole Miss (4-4) is open after a 31-24 home win over Mississippi State last week.

The Rebels play at No. 6 Texas A&M (6-1) on Dec. 12 in a game that was postponed from Nov. 21 because of COVID-19. LSU plays at No. 5 Florida (7-1) on Dec. 12 in a game that was postponed from Oct. 17 because of COVID-19. The Gators play at Tennessee (2-5) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on CBS.

For LSU, the rescheduling means it gets to play a non-ranked team after three consecutive games against top five teams - No. 5 Texas A&M last week (20-7 loss), No. 1 Alabama (28.5-point favorite) Saturday and No. 5 Florida on Dec. 12.

The Tigers lead the series with Ole Miss, 63-41-4, and 41-24-1 in Baton Rouge.

The game also means LSU coach Ed Orgeron gets another shot at the school that fired him in 2007. Orgeron was 10-25 as the Rebels' head coach from 2005-07. He is 4-0 against Ole Miss as LSU's head coach, and none of the games have been close. Orgeron's Tigers won, 38-21, in 2016 in Baton Rouge,40-24 in Oxford in 2017, 45-16 in Baton Rouge in 2018 and 58-37 win in Oxford last season.

In the original 2020 schedule before COVID-19, LSU was to host Ole Miss in the SEC opener for both teams on Sept. 26.

There will be four other SEC makeup games on Dec. 19 in addition to the SEC Championship Game at 7 p.m. Those will be Texas A&M at Tennessee that was postponed from Nov. 14, Missouri at Mississippi State from Dec. 5 and Vanderbilt at Georgia from Dec. 5.