September 6, 2026

LSU defeated Clemson 51-10 in Baton Rouge on September 5, 2026, giving new head coach Lane Kiffin a decisive win in his LSU debut. Quarterback Sam Leavitt threw for 230 yards and a touchdown while adding 113 rushing yards and two rushing scores, and an LSU defender returned an interception for a touchdown. A rain delay pushed kickoff back nearly two hours, but LSU dominated from the start, leading 31-3 at halftime while outgaining Clemson 336 yards to 54 and holding a lopsided edge in first downs. LSU finished with 644 total yards of offense in the win.

The margin handed Clemson its worst loss in roughly three decades and gave Kiffin, hired away from Ole Miss in the offseason, an emphatic start to his tenure with a program that had struggled to reach expectations under previous leadership. The matchup was one of the most anticipated non-conference games of the opening weekend, drawing extra attention because of the coaching change at LSU and Clemson's standing as a traditional power.

The Predict Six community strongly favored LSU beforehand, with 94 percent picking a Tigers win, and the lopsided final score matched that expectation.

OPEC+ left its crude output quotas unchanged for October, declining to approve another increase when the group met on September 6, 2026. The decision followed a phased rollback of the 1.65-million-barrel-per-day voluntary supply cuts the coalition first agreed to in 2023, a rollback that culminated in a production hike approved for September. Having already restored that volume to the market, the eight-country group (including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman) opted to hold steady rather than add further barrels for October, with reporting indicating the group is shifting its attention toward a larger policy debate for 2027 rather than continuing monthly adjustments. The pause came even as U.S. gasoline prices had stayed above $4 a gallon throughout August, a record streak, though OPEC+'s move reflected the group's own supply-management calendar rather than a direct response to pump prices. The group's next meeting is set for October 4.

The Predict Six community was evenly split on this question, with 50 percent expecting OPEC+ to approve another increase. The eventual no-hike outcome was consistent with OPEC+'s stated posture of pausing after completing its 2023 cuts rollback rather than immediately layering on additional supply.