It's T-Minus 66 days until LSU's 2017 season opener lifts off in Houston's NRG Stadium against first-time opponent BYU. Each day until then, here's an LSU sports fact (mostly football but with a sprinkling of other sports) that has a connection to the state of Texas or season openers:

LSU's first road trip playing at an Texas-based team's homefield was a set of back-to-back games in a three-day span, losing Nov. 30, 1899 at Austin-based University of Texas 29-0, then two days later being blanked 52-0 at College Station-based Texas A&M.

Three LSU basketball players arrested after shooting paintballs at a pedestrian