2014 Louisiana (20) vs La. Tech (48)

[CajunSaint08]

Louisiana 77
LTUR...... -0-

+1

OU beat them 48-16. I would love to see the score at least 48-0.

[cajun4ever]

Defensive lineman pictured just above an add for a grocery store. Appropriate.

Should be a slogan below.

Super 1 Foods.....He ate it.

Dudes a beast.

[basinbear]

We win.......and that is all that matters......

[duggie85]

ULT - 21
UL - 37

[Just1More]

The objective is to win the game. From unbiased sources, we're heavily favored. Tech cannot want to lose this game as bad as they want... and their fans can be as braggadocios, arrogant, delusional and defiant all they want. All things even... we win by 20. But, things aren't "even". We are at home. We are healthy (and that has been our prior problem). We are experienced (and that is very important early in the season). We don't like Tech's attitude toward us. We've said "let's play!". They've said, "you're beneath us!". They can print out as many "embrace the suck" posters as they want. It isn't going to change the situation.

Oklahoma did what UL did last week. They played to execute cleanly... against an inferior foe... and came out victorious. We are playing this week to bust a permanent hole in Tech. They've lived on the past, when we refused to be good, while they put their entire athletic identity into their football program.

Many have relayed the message to Coach Hudspeth that their fans and football team have zero respect for us. And he just grinned. I like our chances tomorrow.

[NewsCopy]

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team will look to post a 2-0 record for the second time in three seasons when it returns to action on Saturday against in-state opponent Louisiana Tech at Cajun Field.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:04 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN3 with Dave Raymond (play-by-play) and Jay Taylor (color) calling the action. The game will also be aired on the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns radio network with Jay Walker (play-by-play), Gerald Broussard (color) and Steve Peloquin (sideline) handling the call.

The series with Louisiana Tech (0-1) is the oldest in Ragin' Cajuns football history with the schools playing 85 times dating back to 1910. The Bulldogs have won the last six meetings in the series dating back to 1997 with the last Cajuns victory (37-31) coming in 1996 in Ruston. The last Cajuns victory over Tech in Lafayette was a 40-33 win on Nov. 4, 1995.

Louisiana (1-0) opened its season with a convincing 45-6 win over in-state opponent Southern last Saturday before the third-largest crowd (36,170) in Cajun Field history. Terrance Broadway threw for three touchdowns and ran for another for Louisiana, Elijah McGuire rushed for 129 yards and a touchdown while Jamal Robinson caught five passes for 112 yards and a pair of scores.

Trae Johnson recorded eight tackles to lead Louisiana with Kevin Fouquier and Boris Anyama posting five stops each. The Cajuns limited Southern to 279 yards total offense, including 77 on the ground.

Louisiana Tech opened its season under second-year coach Skip Holtz with a 48-16 loss at No. 3-ranked Oklahoma on Saturday. New quarterback Cody Sokol threw for 191 yards and two touchdowns in a 22-for-36 performance, throwing only one interception.

Kentrell Brice led the Bulldog defense with nine total tackles while Le'Vander Liggins added seven solo tackles.

GAME INFORMATION
RV/RV LOUISIANA RAGIN' CAJUNS (1-0)
Head Coach: Mark Hudspeth (Delta State, 1992)
Record at Louisiana: 28-12 (4th season), Career Record: 94-33 (11th year)

-/- LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS (0-1)
Head Coach: Skip Holtz (Notre Dame, 1986)
Record at LA Tech: 4-9 (2nd season), Career Record: 92-80 (14th season)

September 6, 2014 • 6:04 p.m. CDT • Lafayette, La. • Cajun Field (36,900)
Series History: Louisiana Tech leads, 46-33-6 ... first meeting since 2004 ... Louisiana Tech is Louisiana's most played opponent (85 games) in school history ... Louisiana is 15-2 in home games since 2011.

ESPN3: Dave Raymond, PxP • Jay Taylor, Color
Ragin' Cajuns Radio Network: Jay Walker, PxP • Gerald Broussard, Color • Steve Peloquin, Sideline
In Lafayette: KPEL 1420-AM (Flagship); KHXT 107.9-FM. Affiliates: KTUX 98.9-FM (Shreveport); WGSO 990-AM (New Orleans); KJEF 1290-AM (Jennings); KLCL 1470-AM (Lake Charles); KRJO 1680-AM (Monroe); KTIB 640-AM (Thibodaux)
Live Stats: RaginCajuns.com
Tickets: RaginCajuns.com ($30 reserved, $25 general admission)
Twitter Updates: @ULRaginCajuns; Facebook: RaginCajunsAthletics;
YouTube: IAm4RaginCajuns; Instagram: ULRaginCajuns

GAMEDAY STORYLINES
• The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns resumes a series against its most common opponent when it faces in-state rival Louisiana Tech in a non-conference game.
• Louisiana is 509-525-34 against all opponents dating back to 1901.
• Louisiana is coming off its third consecutive 9-4 season - the winningest stretch in school history.
• Louisiana's 28 wins in the past three-plus seasons (2011-13) is the best mark in school history, surpassing 22 victories (1970-72).
• The Ragin' Cajuns are ranked 40th (12 votes) in the Amway Coaches Poll and 48th (1 vote) in the Associated Press Poll.
• Under head coach Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana is 7-1 against in-state opponents.
• Louisiana has won its last six games against non-conference opponents at home dating back to 2011 (defeated Nicholls State, 38-21).
• Louisiana looks to go 2-0 on the season for the second time in three years and just the fourth time since 1990 (1990, 2009, 2012).

FIVE QUICK HITTERS
1 - Senior right guard Daniel Quave has started 40 consecutive games for the Ragin' Cajuns.
2 - A victory tonight would give Mark Hudspeth his 29th win at Louisiana, tying him with Raymond Didier and Sam Robertson for 8th-place in school history.
3 - The series (85 games) with Louisiana Tech is the oldest in school history dating back to 1910.
4 - Daniel Cadona's 77-yard punt against Southern was the longest in Cajun Field history and the fourth-longest in school history.
5 - Louisiana will play in-state opponents in consecutive weeks in the same season for the first time since 2004.

WE ARE LOUISIANA
• There is confusion among the national sports organizations as how to refer to the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.
• Our official name is the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, but much like our opponents around the country, we simply go by Louisiana when referring to our athletic programs.
• Although we proudly refer to our University with its full title for academic purposes, we ask that Louisiana, Ragin' Cajuns or Cajuns be used to refer to us athletically.

CAJUNS ARE UNANIMOUS SUN BELT CHOICE
• The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team were the unanimous choice to repeat as champions as the 2014 Sun Belt Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll was released in July.
• Louisiana, which finished 9-4 last season and clinched its second league title overall and its first since 2005, garnered all 11 first-place votes by the league's head coaches. Arkansas State was picked to finish second in the poll with South Alabama picked third, Troy fourth and ULM fifth.
• Texas State was picked to finish sixth in the poll with league newcomers Appalachian State and Georgia Southern picked seventh and eighth, respectively. Idaho, Georgia State and New Mexico State rounded out the 11-team field.

Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
First Place Votes in Parentheses
1. Louisiana (11) 121
2. Arkansas State 102
3. South Alabama 98
4. Troy 84
5. ULM 78
6. Texas State 70
7. Appalachian State 47
8. Georgia Southern 44
9. Idaho 29
10. Georgia State 27
11. New Mexico State 26

BROADWAY EARNS PRESEASON HONORS; 10 CAJUNS NAMED TO ALL-SBC TEAM
• Led by Preseason Offensive Player of the Year selection Terrance Broadway, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns placed 10 players on the 2014 Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference Football team that was announced by the league office.
• The 54-member team, which consisted of 12 players on both offense and defense and three special team selections, was picked by the league's head coaches and media members from each of the Sun Belt Conference's 11 football playing schools.
• Broadway, a senior from Baton Rouge, was one of eight Cajuns named to the first team where he was joined in the backfield by teammates Alonzo Harris and Elijah McGuire. Also named to the first-team were wide receiver Jamal Robinson, offensive lineman Daniel Quave, defensive tackle Justin Hamilton, linebacker Dominique Tovell and defensive back Trevence Patt.
• Named to the second-team for the Ragin' Cajuns were offensive lineman Mykhael Quave and defensive tackle Christian Ringo.

CONTINUTY ON THE LINE
• Louisiana enters the 2014 season with continuity on the offensive line with four of five returning starters, who have combined for 91 career starts.
• Right guard Daniel Quave has a 40-game consecutive start streak with younger brother Mykhael Quave (LT) next with a 27-game streak. Newcomers to the line in 2013 - left guard Terry Johnson and right tackle Octravian Anderson - started all 13 games for the Ragin' Cajuns.
• The new starter for Louisiana in 2014 is Donovan Williams at left guard, with Johnson moving to center to replace the Cajuns' lone departed starter from 2013 - center Andre Huval, who started 39 straight games for the Cajuns from 2011-13.

CAJUNS LEAD SUN BELT IN ATTENDANCE
• A crowd of 25,309 for the final home game of the 2013 season allowed Louisiana to lead the Sun Belt in attendance for the second time in three years.
• In five games, the Ragin' Cajuns drew 129,878 fans for a league-best 25,976 average, edging second-place Arkansas State (24,913) by 1,063 fans to claim the crown.
• It is also the second-highest single-season average, trailing only the 29,171 from 2011.
• The total attendance was the seventh-highest total in school history with five of the other six being accomplished in seasons with at least six home games.

CAJUNS ARE SUN BELT CHAMPIONS
• After finishing third in the Sun Belt Conference in 2011 and second in 2012, the Cajuns claimed a share of the Sun Belt title in 2013.
• The title, its second crown in 13 years as a member in the Sun Belt, marks the sixth time that Louisiana has won a conference title in its 50th season playing in a conference.
• The Ragin' Cajuns previously won the Gulf States Conference title in 1970, the Southland in 1976, the Big West in 1993 and 1994, and the Sun Belt in 2005.

SETTING A STANDARD
• In addition to the first-ever, back-to-back-to-back seasons appearing in a bowl game, Mark Hudspeth has helped Louisiana to tie the school record for wins in a season with nine.
• Prior to the 9-4 mark in 2011, the Cajuns set the school record for wins with a 9-2 record in both 1921 and 1976.
• The 18 wins in Hudspeth's first two years, and the 27 victories in the first three, are the most in a two and three-year period in school history.

HARRIS ECLIPSES 2,500-YARD MARK
• With 942 yards rushing in 2013, Alonzo Harris became the fourth runner in school history to total, 2,500 yards rushing in a career.
• Harris, who finished third in the Sun Belt in rushing last season (72.5 ypg), enters the 2014 season ranked fourth in school history with 2,570 yards. He is also third in rushing touchdowns (32) and fifth in attempts (546).
• His career 69.5 yards rushing per game is third best in school history, trailing only Tyrell Fenroy (101.0 from 2005-08) and Brian Mitchell (77.6 from 1986-89). Harris gained 700 yards as a freshman in 2011 and totalled 881 yards in 2012.

CAJUN FIELD SCORING RECORD FALLS
• Despite a home season-low 28 points against ULM in the 2013 regular-season finale, Louisiana broke the Cajun Field record for points scored at home in a single season with 236.
• The Ragin' Cajuns scored 40 or more points in each of the first four home games, including a stadium-record 70 points in the home-opening win over Nicholls State on Sept. 14. The 229 points broke the old mark of the 216 that was scored in five games in 1995.
• The Ragin' Cajuns have scored over 200 points at home in a single season three times in school history, the first coming in 1923 when Louisiana tallied 206 points in five games. The home average of 47.2 points a game broke the previous stadium record of 43.2 set in 1995.

RAGIN' CAJUNS ATHLETICS RANKED 34TH BY NACDA
• After a record-setting year in which five sports claimed conference championships, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns athletic program were rated as the 34th-best nationally according to the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and released by CBSSports.com.
• Louisiana, which claimed regular-season titles in football, baseball and softball while adding Sun Belt Conference tournament titles in men's basketball, men's tennis, baseball and softball, finished as the top non-BCS school in the rankings.

CAJUNS SET NEW SEASON-TICKET MARK
• Coming off a third straight nine-win season, a third consecutive victory in a bowl game and the 2013 Sun Belt Championship, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns have set a new school record for football season tickets with just over three weeks to go until the kickoff of the 2014 season.
• The current total of 12,276 marks the fourth consecutive year the Ragin' Cajuns have set a season-ticket record, eclipsing last year's mark of 11,833.

JOHNSON, MUNOZ RECEIVE PROMOTION
• Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns head football coach Mark Hudspeth announced that current offensive assistants Jay Johnson and Jorge Munoz were each elevated to the position of Associate Head Coach and Passing Game Coordinator, respectively.
• Johnson, who will continue in his role as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, has directed one of the top offensive attacks in the Sun Belt Conference entering his fourth season with the Ragin' Cajuns.
• Munoz, entering his seventh year on the staff, has coached the Ragin' Cajuns wide receivers the past three seasons under Hudspeth, helping produce some of the top receivers in school history.

CURE BOWL ADDED TO SUN BELT BOWL ROTATION IN 2015
• The Orlando Sports Foundation and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced the creation of the Cure Bowl, a postseason college football game matching-up the Sun Belt Conference against the American Athletic Conference beginning in December 2015. The game will be played yearly at the newly renovated Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., the weekend before the Christmas holiday.
• The Cure Bowl will be the Sun Belt Conference's fourth primary postseason bowl game. The Cure Bowl is the second bowl game to join the Sun Belt's lineup in the past year (the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl was announced in August 2013) and the Sun Belt has grown from having just one primary bowl game from 2001 through 2010 to now having four primary postseason bowl game tie-ins.
• In addition to the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, the GoDaddy Bowl, the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl and the Cure Bowl, the Sun Belt Conference is also part of a coalition that will send teams to the Miami Beach Bowl and the Bahamas Bowl on a rotating basis.

MCGUIRE NAMED FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICA
• Elijah McGuire capped off a brilliant 2013 season for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns when he was selected to the 13th annual Football Writers Association of America Freshman All-America Team.
• McGuire, a 5-11, 185-pound running back from Houma, La., was the lone Sun Belt student-athlete on the team.
• A first-team All-Sun Belt selection, McGuire ranked fourth in the conference in rushing, carrying 103 times for 863 yards, a nation's-best 8.4 average and seven touchdowns while catching 22 passes for 384 yards and three scores. He had a team-high 16 plays of 20 yards or better during the season.
• McGuire had four 100-yard rushing games, including a career-high 137 yards and three touchdowns against Nicholls State in his Cajun Field debut. At Georgia State on Nov. 16, he became one of just four players in the nation this year, and the first in school history, to rush for 100 yards and catch passes for 100 yards in the same game.

"PEANUT" RECEIVES WALTER PAYTON NFL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD
• Chicago Bears cornerback and Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football alumnus Charles Tillman was named the 2013 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. The award was presented to him during the NFL Honors awards show at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
• The prestigious award, which is named after the late Bears Hall of Fame running back, is the only league honor that recognizes a player's community service as well as his playing excellence.
• Nicknamed "Peanut", Tillman was a four-year letterman in football for Louisiana from 1999-2002. In 2002, he received All-American recognition; was named an All-Independent selection in 2000; and was a two-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection. He ended his career as a Ragin' Cajun with 284 tackles, 12 interceptions, seven fumble recoveries and three blocked punts.

CAJUNS ADD PETERS TO 2015 ROSTER
• Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns head football coach Mark Hudspeth announced that linebacker Otha Peters has transferred to the program after playing his first two seasons at Arkansas.
• Peters, a Covington, La., native and member of the 2012 SEC All-Freshman Team, will have two years of eligibility remaining with the Ragin' Cajuns beginning in the 2015 season.
• In two seasons with the Razorbacks, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Peters played in 17 games and recorded 41 tackles.
• As a true freshman in 2012, Peters appeared in 10 games with three starts and 32 tackles. In his first career start, Peters recorded a career-high eight tackles and added a quarterback hurry at No. 12 South Carolina before posting eight stops the following week at Mississippi State.
• Peters was limited to seven games for Arkansas in 2013, finishing with nine tackles, including a season-high three against South Carolina.
• Ranked as the No. 6 inside linebacker in the nation coming out of high school, Peters recorded 153 tackles and 7.5 sacks as a senior at Covington High. Peters was named the Defensive MVP and the National Linebacker of the Year at the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and was a two-time all-district 6-5A selection.
• Peters was rated the No. 4 overall prospect in Louisiana and the No. 126th-ranked prospect nationally in the nation by Rivals.com.

NEXT UP
• Louisiana will go on the road for the first time in the 2014 season when it travels to Oxford, Miss., to face nationally-ranked Ole Miss on Sept. 13 in a 3 p.m. contest at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The game is the first of two on the road for the Ragin' Cajuns who will also face Boise State on Sept. 20 in Boise, Idaho.

The rest of the story

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[Bigbuf]

More info that will make CrazyCajun upset!!!

[campo118]

Man… That's gonna be a tough game. UL vs Louisiana? I don't know who to pull for...

[DocCajun]

So the series record is 46-44-6 in ever so slight favor of LTU??? From everything I heard from Tech this week, I thought they have dominated the series...obviously not

[anhil8tor]

The spread opened at 16, dropped to somewhere around 12.5 and is now at 14. The over/under is 58. 68% of the country has money on UL. I tend to believe we win by 24 points.

LATECH 10
Louisiana 41

Either we don't cover or we don't hit the over.

[DwayneW1]

So the series record is 46-44-6 in ever so slight favor of LTU??? From everything I heard from Tech this week, I thought they have dominated the series...obviously not

Not quite - its 46-33-6 in our favor

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data...hp?teamid=1801

[Ragin4U]

Lots of latex fans spout those historic numbers and then, in the next breath, say the game is unimportant to them. If it was unimportant, they would not be so proud of the won-loss record.