The SEC teams are finished feeding. Three non-conference games are out of the way. Following last Saturday’s 56-14 lessons-learned loss to No. 1 Alabama, UL’s regular season is one-third done.

But the race to win the Sun Belt Conference’s West Division_and play in the first-ever SBC championship game is just beginning, Ragin’ Cajuns coach Billy Napier believes.

Napier can sense it.