Your Top 5 Cajun Field Memories

[RedTails]

2011 against ULM (if that's the one where PeeWee scooped up the onside kick) is up there for me.

I also got to watch the Kansas State win in 2009 from the president's box, which was an all-time memory for me.

Also a home game against MTSU when a friend (infrequent poster here) tried to give Dwight Dasher a giant publishers clearing house check for his gambling debts.

[sportsfanatic21]

There was a game against NLU where the Cajuns were down BIG at half. And Dwight Prudhomme led a furious 2nd half comeback to win.

I wanna say it was early 80s. That second half was a blast to watch.

A&M win was magical. Far and away my #1

[Cajunchuck]

1) Cajuns beat Texas A&M in 1996
2) SBC championship game
3) Cajuns erase 26-0 halftime deficit to Northeast (ULM) and come back to win behind play of Dwight Prudhomme (best game I attended as a UL student)
4) Brian Mitchell beating Ark. St.
5) Not on anyone's list but mine - Cajuns lose 37-0 to McNeese in 1973 at my first game at Cajun Field. The only game I ever attended with my Dad at Cajun Field. I was 10 years old and it started my sports hatred of McNeese.

[Jacob81]

1 A&M
2 Kansas state
3 conference champ
4 southern (record crowd)
5 UAB ( rain and drunk)
6a ULM onside comeback
6b Fenroys record against north Texas.

Wish I’d have seen some Brian Mitchell games.

[ZoomZoom]

Alabama and the first Oklahoma State game. Left both feeling like the Cajuns belonged with the big boys. Few years later, USL popped that balloon with a toothpick.

A&M in retrospect, not as much simply because the turnover margin was so great. No excuse to lose a game where the opponent gift wraps it for you.

[Geaux]

2009 - Kansas St (W)
- High expectations for KSU's Josh Freeman. 17th overall to Tampa Bay. Rainy night.

2011 - ULM (W)
- We held the rope and Ladarius Green came through!

2002 - UAB (W)
- We beat the brakes off of Roddy White and UAB. 34-0

2004 - North Texas (L)
- Jemario Thomas ran for 200+ yards that Friday night. He was special.

2009 - Southern (W)
- Packed house!

[JamesTheJeweler]

"3 - NIU, 1994. Some were saying Leshon Johnson was the best RB in the country. One play, he breaks through the line and immediately is knocked into next week by Orlando Thomas. The hardest hit I have ever seen in my life. It literally echoed in the stadium."

Man! I remember this game and that hit!!!! I was 21. Seems like an eternity ago.

[Swamp]

Cajuns crushing UAB in a rainstorm (I hate to use something from the Baldwin era, but it was a great game).

I was there. Terrible but good duck hunting weather is what i remember like yesterday. I had become unbelievable die hard Cajuns Football fan at this point. Top of student section in rain, frat bro shows up from the house (glynn abel dr) wearing a Bama shirt and I said look at the scoreboard, even though we were terrible, that day we weren't, and he became a die hard Cajun Football fan too. Tore the shirt and threw it on a step.

[CajunVic]

"3 - NIU, 1994. Some were saying Leshon Johnson was the best RB in the country. One play, he breaks through the line and immediately is knocked into next week by Orlando Thomas. The hardest hit I have ever seen in my life. It literally echoed in the stadium."

Man! I remember this game and that hit!!!! I was 21. Seems like an eternity ago.

It was . . .

[Big Buds]

1) SBC Championship Game
2) aTm
3) ULM miracle
4) Brad McGuire stAte comeback
5) Fall of ‘95, while in 8th grade, me and some buddies broke into CF early Sunday morning after a home game and scored a live tap of cold beer. We filled about 5 empty gallon jugs and stashed them in an ice chest. We snuck out the following weekend and got drunk as hell and had a couple lung darts…good times.

Honorable mention: K-State

[AirBill]

5. Another "no one else's but mine" game: Fresno State, 9-10-77. Cajuns win 34-13. I was in the Cub Scouts, and we got to walk on the field before the game. Went to Alesi's after the game, and saw my then-hero Rafael Septien in person. A star-studded evening for a 10-year-old.

4. Alabama, 10-6-90. Not a great game, but a great atmosphere.

3. Oklahoma State, 9-6-86. Sophomore year, remember sitting behind OSU bench and hounding Thurman Thomas all game long. My first real big-time college football experience.

2. Middle Tennessee, 12-3-08. Cajuns won 42-28, but it's big for me because it was the only time I got to see Fenroy in person. Also, it was senior night, and if I remember correctly, that's when he found out UL was putting him in the ring of honor. Very emotional for him. On top of it all, it was the first game I was able to bring my then 3-year-old son to. Lots of feels watching him play on the north hill.

1. Texas A&M, 9-14-96. Cajuns win 29-22. 'Nuff said.

[JayWalker]

Someone mentioned NIU in the freezing cold in 90...but that was in DeKalb.

This isn't easy. But for me........

Cajun Field memories aren't always wins.

5. Nelson Stokley's first game as head coach. Mike Gundy to Hart Lee Dykes. Most gut-wrenching loss I can remember at the Swamp. 1986. Was there as a fan.

4. The crowd for the Southern game in 2009. Yeah, they brought a lot of folks. But the atmosphere was unreal.

3. ULM 2011. We were done. Until we weren't. Brett Baer was the master of the onside kick.

2. Texas A&M. Frankly I think the Iowa State win on the road was bigger (in fact, I KNOW it was), but a great atmosphere...and Jake motioning for everyone to come on the field at the end.

1. The SBC title game. Nothing like winning a championship. And, it wasn't a fluke.