4 reasons to love the UL vs WKU game
It’s not homecoming. It’s not even a home game. But there’s a lot at stake when the Ragin’ Cajuns play Western Kentucky today in Bowling Green, Ky. Here are four reasons you should tune into the game, which airs at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
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It’s not homecoming. It’s not even a home game. But there’s a lot at stake when the Ragin’ Cajuns play Western Kentucky today in Bowling Green, Ky. Here are four reasons you should tune into the game, which airs at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
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UL’s Sun Belt fate could ride on a two-game stretch that starts today, then continues with another Tuesday night road game, next week’s at two-time defending SBC-champ Arkansas State.
Win these two, and the Cajuns sit in the driver’s seat for claiming its first outright league title of any sort since winning the Gulf Coast Conference championship in 1970.
“It’s going to be a big game,” UL defensive lineman Justin Hamilton said, “because it’s a conference game, and we’re trying to win the Sun Belt Conference.”
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It’s not just any conference game, though. Rather, it’s against a foe the Cajuns see — along with Arkansas State — as perhaps their biggest hurdle to winning the Sun Belt.
Some might argue it’s also the toughest game UL has left on its regular-season schedule, though some in Jonesboro may beg to differ.
Western Kentucky, 4-2 overall, also has won three straight after beating Morgan State, Navy and the team picked as the preseason co-favorite along with UL to win the Sun Belt, UL Monroe.
3. IT'S A TV GAME
Tuesday’s game will be nationally televised on ESPN2, further magnifying its importance.
It is the first of two straight ESPN2 games for the Cajuns, along with the one at Arkansas State, and the first of three this season on an ESPN TV network, along with a Thursday night ESPNU home game against Troy on Nov. 7.
4. THE STARS ARE IN
Western Kentucky is loaded with star seniors, like linebackers Andrew Jackson and Xavius Boyd and running back Antonio Andrews. And big-time players tend to make big games even bigger.
Jackson is a likely NFL Draft choice in 2014. Andrews is, too.
“You will see him playing on Sundays,” UL defensive coordinator James Willis said of Andrews, currently the nation’s No. 2 rusher.
UL has some standout offensive skill players of its own, but beyond senior receiver-return man Darryl Surgent, the biggest are all juniors: quarterback Terrance Broadway, receiver Jamal Robinson and running back Alonzo Harris. The Cajuns also have a solid linebacker in senior Justin Anderson, who has a team-high 51 tackles.
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