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UL's second open week of the football season appears to be coming at the perfect time.
The biggest benefit could come in the return of quarterback Mike Desormeaux for a Nov. 1 homecoming game against Florida International, which is also idle this week, at Cajun Field. The senior missed last week's 28-23 comeback win over Arkansas State after being listed as questionable with a sprained right knee suffered one week earlier against North Texas.
"We're going to do some rehab stuff this week and see how he responds to it," UL coach Rickey Bustle said. "Right now, we feel like he'll be ready in two weeks."
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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • October 21, 2008
The Cajuns still lead the nation in rushing yards (2,182) and rushing yards per game (311.71), are eighth in total offensive yards per game (498.29) and 20th in points scored per game (35.71).
In rushing yards per game, running back Tyrell Fenroy and quarterback Mike Desormeaux are fifth (138.57) and 10th (118) in the nation. Wide receiver Jason Chery is fifth in all-purpose yards per game (178.29).
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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • October 21, 2008
Tyrell needs 718 rushing yards to pass up George Rogers to be listed 9 on the All-time leading rusher and needs if I am not mistaking 300Plus yards to break the singal season record. Lets Go UL and keep it up Fenroy
he can do it. He can do it all
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Going into the season finale that year, ULM led the league with one loss, while ASU and UL had two losses.
We all thought that a Cajun win would, at worst, forge a three way tie and the NO bowl would pick the representative.
But, because of a loss to Northwestern State earlier in the season, a UL win over ULM would put ULM at 5-6, therefore ruling them ineligible for a bowl.
That meant that we needed to beat ULM, AND have ASU lose to North Texas in order to get the bid, as we would lose a head to head tiebreaker with ASU.
ASU scored very late to win the game. We won a share of the championship but lost out on the bowl.
In 2005 the Sun Belt regular season created a 3-way tie for the Sun Belt Title. Each team had the same Sun Belt record and the 3 teams involved had overlapping victories. UL beat ULM, ULM beat ASU, and ASU beat UL.
Fact is you do not have to be bowl eligible to be Sun Belt Champion. "You do not have to be bowl eligible to be Sun Belt Champion." Still, that didn't stop them from skipping over all possible 3-way tie breakers. They looked at the ending before considering the beginning.
Chronologically you determine a Conference Champion and normally they waltz into a particular bowl game. Instead they backwards engineered the bowl representative by 1st looking at the ultimate goal (a bowl game)
Because ULM was not bowl eligible the Sunbelt created a FAKE 2-way tie to determine the Sun Belt Champ the Sun Belt's mistake was in determining a Bowl representative BEFORE they determined a Sun Belt Champion.
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