The newly expanded Southeastern Conference has put together its schedule for the 2012 season, but it could be a short-term solution.

The addition of Texas A&M and Missouri to the league for next year presented some logistical problems, although for now teams will continue to play eight conference games.

As expected, Texas A&M will be in the West Division and Missouri in the East.

This season teams will play each of their six division opponents and two from the other division.

In the past, teams have played three of the six teams from the other division.

That could change again shortly, however.

The release from the conference read the schedule “is not based on any previous or future scheduling formats.”

Later, SEC Associate Commissioner Charles Bloom confirmed via email that the league’s athletic directors will meet in the spring to look into a scheduling format for 2013 and beyond.

There has been speculation that the league might expand to a nine-game conference schedule to insure more frequent interconference games.

For LSU it means welcoming back a longtime former rival in Texas A&M. The Tigers will travel to College Station on Oct. 20 for the first meeting between the two schools since 1995.

The rest of the LSU games against West division teams are as they would have been anyway — the schools the Tigers played away will be home games next season and vice versa.

The change basically means that LSU will replace a road trip to Kentucky with the October visit to Texas A&M.

Had the league not expanded the Tigers would have been scheduled to play at Kentucky, but with the change the Wildcats have disappeared from the Tigers’ schedule.

South Carolina, which was due to rotate in on LSU’s schedule anyway, will visit Tiger Stadium on Oct. 13.

The other East game will be a trip to Florida, LSU’s traditional every-year opponent from the East.

All of the SEC teams for next season kept their every-year opponents, although it will likely be decided at the spring meeting whether that format continues.

The newcomers, Missouri and Texas A&M, will play each other on the final playing date, Nov. 24.

LSU also announced that it will play all four of its nonconference games at Tiger Stadium this season, giving the Tigers eight home games after having six this past season.

But, on paper, there’s not a lot of meat on the nonconference schedule other than a return visit from the Pac-12’s Washington Huskies.

The season opener will be Sept. 1 against North Texas, followed by Washington and another home game with Idaho before the Tigers open SEC play at Auburn on Sept. 22.

The early favorite for homecoming, however, is surely Towson University, a Football Championship Subdivision school from Maryland that will go to Tiger Stadium on Sept. 29 as the defending champions of the Colonial Athletic Conference.

For the third consecutive year, LSU will have an open date before playing Alabama, in Tiger Stadium for the third time in less than a calendar year on Nov. 3.

Still to be determined is the date for the season finale against the Arkansas, which is usually moved to Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

LSU 2012 Schedule

Sept. 1 — North Texas

Sept. 8 — Washington

Sept. 15 — Idaho

Sept. 22 — at Auburn

Sept. 29 — Towson University

Oct. 6 — at Florida

Oct. 13 — South Carolina

Oct. 20 — at Texas A&M

Nov. 3 — Alabama

Nov. 10 — Mississippi State

Nov. 17 — Ole Miss

Nov. 23 or 24 — at Arkansas

LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)