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And away we go.

We're back on a Sunday with post-game notes here on LPB, and we have a lot to cover alongside my Super Bowl champ partner, Scott Shanley.

I'm Victor Howell.

Lots of rain blew through the state of Louisiana on Saturday.

Some games had to play in it.

Some games had a window.

Some teams got rained on.

Some teams a lot of sunshine.

Adam Scott, I'll tell you, after this weekend you start to see some of the winds really mean a lot more.

You can see the extra emphasis on them at this time of year.

Some of the losses hurt a lot more.

Yeah, because these games matter a little bit more.

Now.

You get into conference play, you start playing some of your hated rivals, and it means a little bit more to not only your team, to the fan bases as well.

So it's that time of year where there's a lot on the line teams.

Teams, like we said on the pregame show, teams know what they are now.

You know how you win.

You know how you've been losing games.

If you don't have those things fixed, sometimes it's too late to fix them.

Yeah.

Like I said, we have a lot to cover on the next 60 minutes here on Game No.

So here's what's on tap.

Well, some of the games will be focusing on including the kernels from Nichols, who were down back at home for the first time in over a month, welcoming the Cowboys from McNeese.

How about what happened at Tiger Stadium late Saturday night?

It was not pretty.

Let's just leave it at that.

But we will get into it later on in the program.

And I saw the Jaguars under their new interim head coach taking the field against Fangio out on the bluff, will show if the Jags could get back in the win column.

Just some of the things we'll be looking at here in the next 60 minutes.

But let's start out west because remember we heard from head coach Mickey Joseph from Grambling on Saturday's game notes, talking about what an opportunity his team playing on a neutral site for the third time.

They've already played in Shreveport.

They played preview in Dallas.

Now they're all the way out in Vegas, taking on the number one team in HBCU and that's the J. State Tigers.

Of course, Jackson State won the Swac one year ago and still undefeated at this point.

And it delivered out there on the strip everything you wanted and then saw them and what a crowd they had in this ballgame.

It was packed at the stadium to watch Grambling and Jackson State.

Trey Bradford, remember what we hear him say on Saturday.

That's why I brought him here.

I want him to tote the rock.

You expect to see him run a lot?

How about this first play 45 yards for Trey Bradford.

But then quarterback safety set gets sacked.

It's a loss of 13.

The drive stops for Grambling.

Now Jacobian Morgan Mickey Joseph said remember he can make all the plays.

He can sling it.

He can run it in here.

He has a great pass down to Nate Rembert.

He gets past a defender all the way down to the six.

Then Jacobian Morgan out of the shotgun, fakes the handoff, keeps it.

Waltzes into the end zone.

And just like that, Jackson State is up seven.

Nothing.

However, towards the end of the first quarter.

Look at this.

Yeah, that's Morgan leaning on someone walking to the locker room.

Undisclosed injury.

But now he's off the field.

Now it's ten.

Nothing early.

Second quarter Travis Terrell junior fumbles the ball for J state.

Grambling recovers and then back to Morgan who's now undressed on crutches.

And then a boot.

So then you find out J. State will be without its starting quarterback.

Still ten nothing late in the second set.

Finds two open receivers covered his night in this one with the catch 59 yards for the score.

Grambling is on the board.

The extra point is missed.

So it's ten six J state 13 seconds left in the half.

Jackson State back to punt.

Look at the special teams blocked by Grambling.

Out of bounds at the seven.

And there's time on the clock.

So Grambling takes advantage of it.

Theo Caballero from 24 is good.

And it's ten nine J state at the break.

Third quarter.

He sat back waiting looking.

Running takes off 16 yards.

Gets it into the end zone.

And now it's 1610.

Grambling on top.

Late third quarter fourth and five in Grambling territory.

Too far for a field goal.

Too close to punt for Jackson State.

Goes for it.

And they do not get it.

So it's a turnover on downs.

Three minutes into the fourth quarter.

And look at the touch on this pass from T set to Andrew Frazier for the touchdown.

Now it's 23 to 10.

But hey Jay states number one for a reason.

Lockhart at quarterback to Nate.

Rembert on target 62 yards.

It's 2317.

Just over two minutes to go.

Lockhart on the keeper.

Is he going to be the hero.

Comes in for their lost quarterback and lead them to a win.

Well it's 2423.

This is the scary moment.

We're at the two minute warning in the fourth quarter to set on third and three.

Up the middle for nine yards.

His head hits the turf and he is knocked out.

The game was delayed almost 15 minutes.

And for as loud as Vegas can be in Allegiant Stadium, it had gotten to a dead silence.

The ambulance would take him off.

That's two sets, mom and yellow.

She's giving the team a pep talk.

Jay state praying as a team, hoping he as well.

Update in just a moment, the game picks back up and a mine.

Terrence Berg is now at quarterback on fourth and nine.

You've got to get the first down and he does it.

Then on third and 12.

Darren Burke to Barron Myles Junior for 11.

So they're going to kick the field goal to win it.

Is he wearing pads.

Wears pants.

Who is this guy.

There is no 60 on the Grambling roster at all.

But we figured out who it is.

It's Josh McCormick, and all he does is step in and drill it from 44 yards out.

Are you kidding me?

In Vegas, against the number one team.

Not even wearing his own jersey.

And Grambling gets the win 26 to 24 over the HBCUs.

Number one team in the country.

McCormick.

The game winning field goal was his first to set 247 yards, three touchdowns.

But as we mentioned, carted off in the ambulance.

Two minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

Grambling is back home next weekend to take on Alabama A&M.

Lots of talk about let's give you an upset update at least on T said that as of Sunday morning, he was still in the hospital in Las Vegas.

He went there immediately after the ballgame for observations.

Talk to their side early this morning.

And as of Sunday morning, he is still there.

As fun as the game was and we'll talk about it, that is always something frightening when you just see a play going nine yards.

When he got tackled, you could tell the way his head hit the turf.

He was out.

Yeah, those are scary moments because the tacklers are obviously doing his job trying to tackling, but he has his arms wrapped up so he couldn't brace himself.

There was the only impact that he had when he or when he fell.

He basically fell straight on his on his head.

So those are scary moments.

Get concussions like that.

The first thing you want to do is make sure that you know, the stabilize, have mobility in their neck, and you check in the neck instantly and movement in his leg.

So hopefully all vital signs are good.

But yes, those are scary moments when you can't brace or fall on the impact.

And I know you know all too well in the game that can be a violent sport.

The fact that everybody went dead silent prayers on both sides because it's a respect for the game.

Absolutely.

Look, JJ state wanted to get the win.

Grambling wanted to get the win.

We know what a talent said.

As in to see everybody just step back and realize this is a little bigger than what we're doing.

We certainly hope the best for him and we will update you as we get word on his condition.

Now, as for the game, Scott, I wasn't kidding.

60 is not on the roster.

Literally.

If you go to Grambling State's website, there is no 60.

McCormick is number 23.

He's a transfer and is a graduate list from Austin, comes in and just walks in against the number one team from 45 yards out and crushed it.

I mean, it was a no doubt and drilled it.

What a play.

First of all, to be in that situation with all the pressure, all the eyeballs watching you in that type of moment and that magnitude against the number one team in Jackson State, he was a really good team.

And to drill it, and that thing would have been good from from 55, 60 yards.

He drilled it.

And I think as soon as he hit it he knew he was running the other end celebrating.

So what a moment for Grambling.

Coach Joseph talked about the the opportunity they had to seize the moment to enjoy the moment a great crowd showed up for for Jack State and Grambling.

And to end the game like that, it was it was one of the the game of the day was one of the games of the day.

It was it was fantastic, a great environment.

And yes, congratulations to Graham and see if they can build on it when they get back at home next week.

All right.

So let's go from a Swac meeting out in Las Vegas.

Let's go down to a South End conference meeting down in Thibodaux.

And that's where the colonels from Nicholls State who haven't been home in over a month.

Welcome the Cowboys.

And Matt Theodore from McNeese as McNeese had coming off of a win at home.

But remember when Matt Theater said this Nicholls team reminds me a lot of one of us, a team desperate for a win, trying to get back in the win column, playing tough, hosting these in the afternoon kick for the first time all season.

Ian Rodrigue gets his first start at quarterback.

Deuce Hogan is sideline.

Rodriguez from Thibodeaux play the tempo High school.

So right there at Nicholls.

And look what he does a couple of big completions a big scramble.

And then Rodrigue off to the races 34 yards for the touchdown at seven.

Nothing.

Nicholls trouble for Jake Strong the reigning Southland Conference Offensive player of the week.

We talked about the rain.

It was raining in this ballgame and you see the wet ball gets behind him.

It's a loss of 16 to Cal Brock ten on the end around this is good for 15 yards for the Colonels.

Look at the break.

Some tackles a toughness.

He even straightens on his face mask and keeps going leads to a field goal.

It's now ten nothing for the Cardinals early second quarter Jake Strong Cameron Senegal 45 yards.

Look at the concentration on the drill and the reach backwards to bring that ball in.

And outstanding catch indeed.

Very next play strong to Logan Malden 20 yards here on the touchdown.

And just like that McNeese answers.

And it's ten seven third quarter same score.

Strong rolling outside trying to avoid pressure.

Throws it into coverage.

And it's intercepted by Ty Marsh.

And look at Marsh fight his way back 45 yards on his second pick six of the season.

Gets it into the end zone.

And it's 17 seven.

Nicholls.

Then the Colonels decided to be the only team to play with the ball.

Third and four Rodriguez Jackson Dufresne for 13 yards.

Third and 11.

Rodrigue to Tanya Brooks.

This is 13 yards.

They got the ball with 8.5 minutes left in the third quarter.

Second and seven Rodrigue under center shotguns.

It keeps it ten yards.

First down Shane Lee Scott caps off a 17 play, 86 yard, eight minute, 42 second drive with a one yard touchdown.

And now the Colonels.

It's time to right back here.

Pulling away later from an 18 play drive.

Two one play drive Rover to Caress Johnson 69 yards on the touchdown.

And the Colonels make it a laugh.

Or they run away with it for the second win of the season, and the first win since week zero, 31 to 7 is the final score, a disappointing loss for the Cowboys?

But that Saturday was all about the nickels.

Colonels Brock, 70 carries for 104 yards, had 16 receiving yards.

Next game for McNeese at home against the Demons of Northwestern State.

Next game for Nicholls at home against Houston Christian.

We'll hear more about both of those teams in just a moment.

So look, we've talked about some of these teams that have struggled and the record shows, but we have talked about how there's been that fight.

Nicholls was at Lamar, the highest ranked team in the Southland Conference.

Tie it up with four minutes to go until a punt return beat him.

So we've seen the fight.

Now you see the results right?

We talked about it.

You just bide your time, work at it.

They saw the results.

And if you're playing physical football, if you're able to do things in the trenches, win or lose, you have a chance every single week to win.

I think it all came together for Nicholls yesterday.

You get to that game early on and it's some precipitation.

You look around your team and you say, do I like our O-line versus their D-line?

Do I like our backs versus their linebackers?

You basically take the wide receivers and DBS out of it.

When you get into the precipitation type games, and Nicholls obviously like their chances that ran the ball over three yards rushing, 1116 on third down.

So the offense came alive.

Yeah.

And the third quarter was just they really put a statement on there when they got the ball end of the third quarter eight minutes to go.

Carried it over and then finally scored that touchdown on that drive.

Deuce Hogan not available because of injury.

But what about the story that you have with Ian Rodrigue, the starting quarterback for Nicholls again he played at several high school.

He's right there in the shadows of Nicholls University where he played high school.

Scott, he gets his first start and comes in and had no trouble on both sides.

Look at what he did 161 yards passing on 12 of 20.

But he also ran the ball for 77 yards and another touchdown.

How about that for a debut start?

When you have a very good McNeese team who's coming off a win, come to your place.

Yeah.

What a cool story to have a hometown kid playing and to play as well as he did.

Obviously he was a huge contributor to that 300.

Rushing did a nice job in the passing game, converting that took what the defense was giving him.

So anytime you can play in front of your hometown, in front of your home crowd, have all your family and friends are, it just means a little bit more to hear.

Outstanding game.

And really made this Nicholls offense go.

Yeah I remember now Nicholls are now two and two in the Southland Conference.

And that's because their other win was also a conference win.

When they kicked off the entire college football season.

With the win at home in week zero against you guys love you.

But it was really nice to see the crowd look they haven't we talked about it for the last four weeks.

They were in a four week road trip that has taken them everywhere except for home.

They finally got to wake up in their own beds, play back.

Yes, they fought the rain as well.

Disappointing loss for the Cowboys.

Now they come off a big win at home.

Go on the road Matt.

Theater warned everybody about it.

We heard him say it on our show Saturday and it came to be true.

So now how do they rebound?

Yeah it's tough.

You come off the loss like this.

You want to play a certain brand of football.

And the other team that you just played against played your brand of football against you, it's a defeating to lose that way.

I think for McNeese you got to find a way offensively to get a little more production.

Especially Jake Strong's been doing a lot of the producing on the offense side of the ball, finding other ways to get the ball down the field.

He's been run the ball, he's been thrown the ball a lot.

So somebody else has to emerge in that offense, become a playmaker.

Lots of games in action on Saturday, but the highlight one, if you will, would be the one that was played in primetime under the lights in Death Valley at Tiger Stadium.

A sold out crowd to see LSU now number 20, host number three and undefeated Texas A&M.

The coaches have press conferences every week, and on this Monday leading up to the game Saturday night, head coach Brian Kelly of LSU was asked about the physicality that his team might be missing and what they need to do to fix it.

Listen, everybody you know is going to look at this and and has their opinions.

And I respect everybody's opinion.

But there's no doubt that any time you evaluate your football team, the first thing you're going to look for is physicality.

And the Tigers looking to improve on it.

What a scene at Tiger Stadium.

There was a huge window with the weather because chance of rain and Tiger Stadium never sold out.

And here we go.

Three plays into the game.

Was this a sign of things to come?

Cassius Howell, no relation, obliterates Garrett Nuss Meyer on the sack for the loss of nine A&M gets the ball and it took them six plays to score second and ten.

Marcel read sees season opening.

Where are the white jerseys Scott where's the defense?

This was a reminder of College Station a year ago when Marcel Reed burst on the scene.

The second half took over, dominated then and dominated last night.

Gets the touchdown 41 yards out.

It's seven.

Nothing but the Tigers answer much.

Fire to trade as green down to the five.

Next line up Scott four wide to the right.

One on the left.

Where do you think they're going.

Going that one on one match up.

That's that's stealing right there.

That is stealing matters for sure because that is unstoppable at six seven for trade as green for the touchdown.

And we're tied at seven.

But the Aggies come right back 75 yard drive ends when Reed zips this one to Casey Concepcion 15 yards and it's 14 seven.

Now LSU would get a safety.

Makes it 14 nine.

Watch Nuss Meyer and you can see what he sees.

And he drops this time to Berrian Brown 41 yards on the completion.

Now second and seven when we switch he takes it into the end zone.

Touchdown.

The point after is missed.

So it's 1514 when Harlan Berry gets into the end zone LSU as a field goal makes it 1814 at the half.

I wish the game would have ended at halftime, but for LSU it did open and drive the third quarter retakes on himself.

That's his second touchdown LSU those three and out and then they punt.

Cake sees possession goes left.

But he wants to make the highlight reel again.

And he does 79 yards on the return.

Takes it all the way to the end zone.

Now it's 2818.

So Scott in the span of a minute 41 seconds you went from up four to down ten.

It flipped.

It flipped really fast in big plays, especially in the special teams game.

Will do that.

Yeah, it happened fast.

And then it got worse.

After a 34 yard punt, the Aggies went 50 plays 50 yards and four plays.

There was a touchdown to make it 35 to 18.

LSU had 14 yards in the quarter.

Second play of the fourth quarter.

Aggies score another touchdown.

It's now a runaway officially midway through the fourth, Jamarion Moreau again 11 yards 49 to 18.

And that's the mood of every Tiger fan.

But they would keep fighting for Michael Van Buren, who came into the game because Nurse Meyer was just getting beat up.

And Van Buren rolls out.

Watch the catch here by Kyle Parker back of the end zone.

One foot.

Bring that ball in.

Concentration.

The stands are empty.

But he didn't stop.

Great focus there.

But that's just one highlight in the second half.

That was full of nothing but Aggie highlights.

And Texas A&M comes in and makes a statement 49 to 25.

They outscore LSU in the second half 35 to 7.

And it's the first win for Texas A&M in Baton Rouge since 1994.

The Aggies stay undefeated.

The Tigers fall to two and three in the conference, and now they have a bye week to stew on this one before they go to Tuscaloosa for their next ball game.

As you can imagine, a very disappointed Brian Kelly.

Nobody's more disappointed than our football team.

And you know, the performance in the second half was certainly, the most disappointing part of this game in itself.

So, I don't have much to add other than what we saw.

So I'll open it up to questions if the guys are indeed playing hard as as you saying believe, then what do you think is sort of missing, with this team at the moment in terms of, the execution piece of things?

Yeah.

I mean, all of those things are the ones that I'm going to have to figure out for our football team, because if guys are playing hard and I know they were, and they prepared their tails off this week and that's not happening.

You know, that's a football issue.

And, the football buck stops with me and I have to take a good hard look at what we're doing, how we're doing it.

Both from a personnel standpoint and from a coaching standpoint.

Coach, not to get caught up in the moment, but a game like this will have big picture questions.

A lot of your fan base is very upset.

What would you tell them right now?

And can you come back from this this year and all together?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, look, this this is an extremely disappointing night, right?

And the fan base, our fans are disappointed, like any fan base would be, whether I'm here at LSU or, any other school, the head coach, it stops with the head coach.

And so that responsibility falls with me.

But this is a proud tradition.

LSU they have a proud football team and the guys that represent us.

And like I said, those guys, they I was with them.

They prepared their tails off this week.

They expected to win.

They did that by their actions in the first half.

It didn't show itself in the second half.

So I have to look at the reasons why.

So my focus really will be much more on, inside out than outside in.

And I get it.

There should be noise.

You should be disappointed.

I'm disappointed.

But I have to really focus my time inside out the program so we can make sure this never happens again.

I would just be giving you lip service right now if we weren't going to be committed to getting this football team better and having them, have better outcomes than tonight.

Our fan base should be upset.

They have every right to be, that second half was unacceptable, at any level.

And I've got to figure out the ways that we can get our football team to play better football.

Consistently.

Not just in spurts, but for four quarters.

Thank you.

It's about a 30 minute wait.

Before Brian Kelly came out to meet the media following the ballgame.

Scott, there are so many avenues we could go down and we only have an hour show.

We've got eight more teams we need to cover, so I'm just going to kind of open it up to you and just ask, where would you start with the focus?

Because he talked about the second half being abysmal.

Look, in the first half, as many mistakes as they might have made, you still have the lead.

At halftime you lost 35 to 7 at home to Texas A&M.

Where would you start?

Where would your focus be first?

Well I think first of all, the strength, the conditioning part of it, it looked like Texas A&M just kind of wore LSU down.

But as a defensive guy, there's definitely an out of sync attitude on this defensive side of the football.

And it started to emerge last week at Vandy, and it really showed its head last night in the in the second half.

It's just it looks like a disjointed defense where guys aren't quite sure who's supposed to be doing what job.

And so to me, I disagree with coach Kelly with the other part.

I don't see all out effort, especially on the defense side of the ball.

Just all 11 hats to the ball.

I think this defense is really missing Whit weeks defensively.

He's the heartbeat of that defense.

He gets everybody kind of lined up gets him going.

So defensively everything spiraled out of control last night.

That being said.

But still offensively you're kind of sitting around waiting for this offense to figure it out.

And 278 yards a week after Arkansas just put 568 yards up on A&M.

That's got to be frustrating.

And oh by the way the biggest stat in football turnover takeaway margin.

You want it.

You want two to nothing.

And you still got blown out at home.

So there's a lot of things to be concerned about.

On the offensive side carrying us Meyer came out late.

Brian Kelly said during his press.

Kind of there was no need to keep him in and he was getting beat up.

And that's because A&M defense was all over it in terms of sacks in this ballgame.

How about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven sacks for A&M?

Defense against LSU five in the second half.

That was Howell sack right there in the very first series.

Third play in as he blows by his man and just hammered him from behind.

But it wasn't even just that one spot.

There was so many ways they got to Nuss Meyer.

They were bringing four coming into him.

They just kind of sat back because the pressure was on.

But while we look at the sacks, it leads me to something else that I want to ask you, because it seemed like LSU settled for this game when the running game wasn't doing bad in the first half.

But then Harlan Berry touches it one time, one time in the second half, and it was one carry in the third quarter.

LSU finished with minus eight rushing yards in the second half.

So on the big picture.

Yeah, they're coming after getting no smarter because you're not running the ball.

So we're just going to tee off on you.

And by the way you got a young left tackle out there.

You're putting him one on one not helping chip block.

And you're letting your quarterback get hit in the back on the blind side.

There's a reason why I left.

Tackles the NFL making $20 million a year.

You got to protect that quarterback's backside.

So you have a young guy out there.

You got to help protect him.

But I agree with you.

When you look at Kayden Durham and now Harlan Berry, that's as good a two headed tandem as you're going to see in college football.

There is no reason why those guys shouldn't be getting more touches.

And I know Coach Kelly said in his press conference to be fair to him, the game started to get out of control.

So that's why you're not turn on him the ball off.

But before the game starts getting out of control, you have a way to continue to wear down Texas A&M with two really good running backs.

Yeah, you had an 1814 lead and you only handed it to your best running back one time.

The other issue and you hear coaches talk about all three phases special teams.

And that was a problem Saturday night as well for LSU.

We never see Ramos miss an extra point.

Stop what he did here early on.

He strikes one off of the upright.

But that was just a sign of things to come because really things got bad in the second half.

We saw the 79 yard punt return at the Aggies half of Concepcion.

And here it is for this is the kickoff return.

This kickoff return went almost 50 yards to help set up a touchdown.

Then LSU got the ball back when they went three and out.

Had to punt.

That's the punt return.

And within a minute 41 seconds all of a sudden you're down ten.

Yeah.

And special teams often the forgotten stays of football.

But we've said how many times to anybody who watches our show we know we talk about hitting yardage all the time.

Well these hitting yardage are actually leading to points.

It's tough to overcome, punt returns for touchdowns, giving up seven points.

There's a reason, you know this game was was even going into the game.

They like the matchup between both these teams when the special teams doesn't, perform and the other teams scoring points.

Again that type of field position is just tough to overcome.

Yeah, it was just way too tough for LSU.

Don't come overall.

And now they have one more week to think about this one before they get set for their next ball game.

First weekend in November in Tuscaloosa against Alabama.

A few hours before that LSU kick in Tiger Stadium.

That was kickoff on the bluff.

Fred McNair, making his debut as the interim head coach for southern after they parted ways with Terrance Graves early in the week.

Third and five Ashton Strother getting the start at quarterback again to Cam Jefferson 21 yards here on the completion.

Same drive.

Third and 14 Strother to Darren Morse 33 yards down to the eight.

What what is this.

This is the Jaguar offense getting things done.

Trey Holley he knows what to do with it.

Up the middle two yards on the touchdown.

And just like that the Jags have A73 lead over Florida A&M.

End of the first quarter struggle.

The Darren Morris it gets down to the to the family four.

Then they score the touchdown.

Holley again from three yards out.

Jaguars now have a 14 to 3 lead.

It's now 14 six southern with five minutes to go in the half.

And here come the Rattlers.

Jamaal Haley's seven yards on the touchdown made it 14 13 minutes ago RJ Johnson he takes off up the middle 26 yards and sprints it into the end zone nine plays 74 yards and two minutes.

And Famu now has lead 1914.

Third quarter watch Amarion Asberry burst up the middle cuts here.

Avoids a defender.

Yeah nice gain there for 18 yards.

It leads to an Ashton Strother touch.

Push on the bluff 21 1914.

Plays 91 yards for the Jags in the second half.

And they have the lead start of the fourth quarter.

Trey Holley left side 12 yards.

Gets banged out of bounds at the four yard line.

It leads to another look.

Scores.

That's a serious push there.

Look a big fella back there in the back making sure he gets in there 2822 Jags back on top.

Then it was all Famu for about ten minutes.

Jamaal Haley again this time from 39 yards out 2928 Rattlers.

Southern would have to punt and three plays later RJ Johnson hits Goldie Lawrence and he is gone 74 yards on that pass.

And just like that it's 3628 six minutes to go Jack.

Still a striking difference.

Striking distance.

But you've got to get something done and you got to make a stop.

But it's Jamaal Haley again breaks the tackles and he's gone 56 yards.

He had a buck 62 on the day.

The Jags would add one late.

But unfortunately for southern it's not enough to get things done at home against Florida A&M as the Rattlers come in to Baton Rouge and get the win by the final score 43 to 35, nearly a thousand yards of combined offense in this ballgame.

Holley 26 carries for a buck 45 and two touchdowns.

Outstanding effort for him.

Next game for southern.

They're back on the road up in Arkansas to take on Golden Lions from Pine Bluff.

That will be next weekend.

Scott.

It is a tough loss for southern as losing streak continues.

But if you want to try to find the bright side, 35 points over 400 yards of offense for a team that seems like at halftime can't find its offense back out on the field.

Tough loss for Frederick nearing his debut, but you can see maybe a little more life now in the program.

There's no doubt.

I think offensively came alive with five minutes left in that game.

It's a one score game.

You have a chance to win that game.

The most encouraging thing is after you make a coaching change and you bring an interim coach in is how do the guys respond?

There's definitely a fight and there's definitely want to in the locker room, and I think it speaks volumes about the respect they have for for coach McNair and the guys that they brought into that locker room.

Strother getting a little more playing time doing his best just came up.

Touchdown short but certainly a good effort.

See you thinking on the winning track at Arkansas Pine Bluff next week.

All right let's take it to another Southland Conference game.

This one was being played in Natchitoches.

We're talking about the ranked Lamar Cardinal coming in this game got moved up kick off because of the weather blowing through the state of Louisiana on Saturday.

They bumped off kickoff a couple of hours defense early.

First play for the demons Abraham Johnson gets sacked for the loss.

But then Lamar's Robert Coleman drops back and he gets sacked for a loss.

Both teams defense making some early plays in this ballgame.

It's three nothing Lamar midway through the first when Johnson rolls out and hits Jimmy Duncan and Duncan makes a move here.

Makes another move.

Gets it all the way down as it crosses the field.

Gets it to the five.

Unfortunately, the demons offense couldn't punch it in.

So you settle for the short field goal attempt and no no no no.

Back at block, northwestern has had some special teams issues.

We've seen it at home and we've seen it with field goals and it hurt them again early in the ballgame Saturday the end of the first quarter Johnson to Jeremiah James.

Can he get to the end zone almost.

He gets caught at the one the ball gets punched out.

But take a look.

It goes out of bounds at the one.

So instead of going into the end zone it stays with Northwestern State.

And that's a good thing because in the start of the second quarter, Johnson gets it in with the help of some friends.

Look at him.

Pull him in.

Come on with me.

In the end zone seven three demons have the lead next Lamar possession.

Xavier Coleman finds space and there he goes 35 yards for the touchdown as he breaks through the defense.

Ten seven Lamar at that point.

End of the first half Coleman looks right corner to Lyndon Fuseli for the score.

And it's 17 seven.

Third quarter now for Lamar.

Third and ten Coleman hits Xavier Coleman.

That's good for 13.

And two plays later Josh Robinson takes it in from three yards out.

That makes the score 24 to 7 game effort by Lamar in this ballgame in the fourth.

Now 27 to 7 Xavier Coleman with his second touchdown made it 34 to 7.

But the demons worked on Johnston to Brandon Webb.

And look at Webb with the catch.

And he's gone 78 yards for the touchdown 34 to 14.

Great play for the demons there.

Unfortunately too little too late as Lamar would add one more midway through the fourth when Amarion raspberry scores from nine yards out.

Lamar came in, struggled early, but then showed its strength and its might in this ballgame.

And that's how this ballgame would end.

41 to 14 is the final score.

Abraham Johnson had himself a career day in terms of numbers, as we have seen him mature 13 of 23 for 284 yards and a touchdown.

You see the rushing yards just 23 for Northwestern State 256 for Lamar.

Next week they're at McNeese.

And after the game, head coach Clay McCorkle has a message for those who aren't believing that this team is getting better.

Those are two really good, true freshman receivers that are really productive.

And they're going to be incredible players here.

So that really surprised us.

We've been kind of seeing this day coming for a while where those two guys could step up and make some plays.

They caught most of all of their passes.

From a redshirt freshman quarterback who was protected by two redshirt freshman up front, and a sophomore, and then JJ, you know, who's a redshirt freshman.

We didn't have a great day running the ball.

But, you know, he hit a couple runs had the fumble which hurt.

You know, freshmen shouldn't be playing right now at this level.

But they are and when you look at all that and you really do the math, you know, and I shared with some people this week that across the Southland Conference this week, there were five redshirt freshman or freshman starting across the entire league.

And we started eight today on offense.

And if you can't see where this program's going if you're not, open minded enough, if you can't understand football and see the big picture enough, you're out of your mind and you're not living in the real world because this thing is, you got to give these kids a lot of credit.

You know, their their babies out there fighting their butt off, and they're going to be really good.

And if you want to get on the wagon and go with us right now, great.

If you don't, I don't know who you are when you show up late.

There you go.

Message to never look simple.

Self plug here real quick for the show.

That's exactly why we're doing this show.

Because there are stories to be told.

Look they're struggling to win column.

They got one early, but the fight is still there.

You're starting eight redshirt freshman against the number 15 team in the country.

In terms of the FCS level of football, you were in it to halftime.

They pulled away.

They're supposed to do it, but they have there have been improvements.

I think that's his point.

You want to give up on us?

Give up on us now.

But don't ask to come back.

Yeah.

And I think when you look at it so many times, people look at the box score and they look at the win loss, but I think coach McCorkle did a great job.

He introduced perspective into everyone's into everybody who just checks the box score and looks at win loss records.

You're playing all these young guys he's talking about.

We are building something for the future.

Now.

Nobody wants to be patient.

We're not in a patient era.

Everybody wants what they want right now.

So no one's really looking at next year.

But he introduces perspective Brenda Webb four catches hundred 26 yards.

As a young guy who's going to have a highly productive career.

I think going on those early road trips when they went and played up Minnesota and Cincinnati and took some thumps, I mean, those are tough places to go play in a Big Ten conference, but it made those young guys grow up really quick.

And I think coach McCorkle is right.

You're going to see, an evolution of maturity with these young guys who are playing early and taking some lumps and Avon Johnston, we've watched a young quarterback played at Parkview in Baton Rouge.

He struggled early.

Then he throws for 243.

So yes you've got to rebuild at some point.

That's what they're doing it right now.

You're seeing it in front of your own eyes.

Here's how things look in the Southland Conference.

Overall.

Now we know northwestern has that one win on the season and that came early in the year.

But there's Lamar.

So the team that's on the bottom play the team at the top.

Tough for the first half.

Oh look who's number two though.

It's Steve enough force and the Lions from southeastern Louisiana.

And they were in action as well on Saturday just across the border to the west taking on Houston Christian opening drive for Houston Christian in this ballgame.

They go for it on fourth and four Maddox Kopp keeps it.

But he's stuck for that Lions defense Joshua Randle gets it done.

Good start for the Lions D Carson camp and starting again at quarterback.

The quick pitch to Brandon Hayes.

He goes 14 yards and takes it inside the 32 plays later camp to Jalen DiMarzio.

Why not.

He's been the go to guy 31 yards on this one as damage gets it down inside the five yard line Calvin Smith junior is going to cap things off.

It's a one yard touchdown.

And the Lions are up seven to nothing.

Second quarter still seven.

Nothing until Daryl Evans finds a hole.

And he's almost gone.

Look at that great hustle to track him down 73 yards.

He gets down to one but he can't get it.

But next play as we told you contractually you have to see as I Sean Edwards highlights.

And he takes it in.

He's one of the best if not the best in the game in the Southland Conference.

And he scores.

And we're tied at seven now.

Under three minutes to go in the half.

Jack Hunter puts it away for the Lions.

But Ty Thomas muffs it.

Kay Collier then jumps on it.

It's a scrum.

But the Lions are going to get the ball.

And that sets up field position.

And this the last play of the half.

Look as Kemp stumbles but somehow flips over his head to Oxford.

Jackson takes it in and scores 14 seven.

Houston Christian had an unsportsmanlike penalty on the play, so when they come out for the third quarter they now kick from the 20.

And Brandon Hayes says thank you because he makes one move to the left.

And for the second straight week, the Lions for southeastern have run to kick back for a touchdown.

Brandon Hayes takes it 85 yards to the house and now it's 21 seven Lions Houston Christian then turning defense into offense.

The tip trail off the Carson can't pass Jayden King.

He takes it 50 yards the other way gets it to the end zone.

And now we're back down to just a one score game 2114.

But it's all Lions the rest of the way after field goal makes it 2414.

Can't toss us to Cade Collier.

He scores it from 14 yards out.

Gets past one defender blocks in front of us.

Takes it into the end zone 3114 ten minutes to go now Calvin Smith right side 23 yards.

Great game down inside.

The 23 plays later Smith is got to captain with the touchdown 3814 Lions.

And that's how it ends.

The Lions outgained Houston Christian 215 to 47.

In the second half.

The defense stands tall.

The Lions remain perfect in conference play.

Look at that time of possession dominating by southeastern.

November 1st is the next ball game against East Texas A&M.

So these Lions are about to become pretty good.

So we haven't noticed.

We've talked about the two quarterbacks system.

We've talked about damage with wide receiver or the defense stood tall on the road.

The defense has been outstanding all year long.

I think there's guys in the secondary that guys on the defense line who have got to have a chance to play on Sunday, so they are they are playing really good football in all three, all three phases of the game.

And I think a really good sign of a really good football team is you don't always play your best.

You go on a road trip, you're only up 14 seven at halftime.

You slept in a hotel, but you have the best pre-game meal, and yet you find a way to turn it on when it matters most.

They woke up in the second half, and they showed us the lines that we've been seeing the last few weeks, but just a really good football team in all three phases.

Okay, you mentioned second half.

Let's go right there.

Because yeah the game was tied at halftime.

You get the muffed punts you score late.

But in the second half this defense absolutely put Houston Christian on lockdown Scott they held Houston Christian you ready to -0.2 rushing yards.

So they didn't get north of zero.

Of course LSU was minus eight and second half.

But that's a game.

We've already talked about 47 total yards of offense for Houston Christian against this line.

Defense in the second half one for six on third downs was Houston Christian.

So when you're to your point when that defense was ready to put this thing to bed.

And it mattered most in the second half on the road.

Yeah.

They put this thing to bed.

Yeah.

Especially when they get teams into passing situations.

I said the strength of this defense is their D-line and secondary.

If they get an opposing team in a passing situation, start to pull ahead.

14 721 seven.

It's good night for the offense because they are they are as good a team as there is in this conference.

Just they can play, man.

They can play zone.

They got a good pass rush.

So defensively I think this team has led defensively.

But when the special teams plays like they do tough to be.

Yeah I mean you can see in these highlights how Houston Christian is running East and West said of North and South because the defense just would not allow it a couple of sacks and holding them to negative rushing yards for the entire second half.

The defense certainly showed up and showed strong.

It was a frustrating afternoon for Houston Christian James, who, as we have seen, has been able to score and get some offense because they've got the best running back in the South End Conference.

But it didn't make a difference on Saturday against this southeastern team because the Lions defense just made its presence felt.

You see the pressure that's the ball and goes out of bounds backwards about 16 yards.

So you had the defensive effort there.

But also let's not forget the offensive side 378 total yards of offense and 37 minutes time of possession for a team that didn't do all that great on third down conversions.

But we talked about the two headed monster quarterback, the rushing game we talk about tomorrow at the wide receiver position, what you're starting to see and correct me if I'm wrong, balance.

You're seeing it from all positions.

Yes.

And you have a balanced football team.

It makes the opposing team.

You don't know what poison to pick.

You don't know how you want to stop team.

We're going to load the box for me to take away the running game.

Well, now we're going to flex out our great tight end DiMaggio.

And he's to be one on one with the safety.

And you've seen them do that.

So I think this offensive staff is doing a good job of putting the guys in the matchups that they like.

Much like you see on Sundays, it's a matchup game.

Get guys in space who can make plays.

But there's just there's so many ways that this team can beat you offensively.

This two handed quarterback.

The system they're running they're doing as good as anybody.

There's no question the Lions have plenty of momentum at the right time.

Four games left two at home two on the road as they roll into November.

Brian Vincent company back on the road and back in the rain.

Remember the last road game two weeks ago?

They needed an ark for Coastal Carolina.

That didn't work out so well on Saturday.

They're playing Southern Miss.

Aiden, our mentor, is not playing.

Hunter Harris is not available.

So Landon Graves, a redshirt sophomore from watching Tall Christian, he gets the start at quarterback Zach Palmer.

Smith, one of the many outstanding running backs.

Well he knows what to do.

27 yards on the gain here.

Then Braylen McReynolds.

He's back.

Remember he got injured a couple of weeks ago.

Tweaked a little.

Hammy came back in nine yards here.

He gets it down to the ten yard line.

Two plays later graves to Tyler Griffin left side of the end zone four yards out and the Warhawks on the road.

Up seven.

Nothing over Southern Miss.

Braylen.

Braxton is the real deal and he can spin it 30 yards here to Elijah Metcalf.

Left side.

Four plays later Matt Jones finishes the drive off for Southern Miss from four yards out.

We're tied at seven early.

Second quarter Braxton with the quick shovel pass to Kyree Heath.

And Heath takes it up the middle bounces it and he's gone for the touchdown.

34 yards later he's in the endzone.

It's 14 seven.

Time for trick play.

As if Southern Miss needs it.

Braxton hands it off, gets the toss back and then connects with Ty Shaw.

Chapman 39 yards in the back of the end zone as he gets past the defender.

It's 21 seven just like that.

Southern miss under three to go in the half though.

Here comes Zach Palmer.

Smith 21 yards here.

And he finds the end zone.

And it's 2114.

Your man roars right in this thing for mistakes will kill you.

Early in the third quarter on the punt JP Colter slips.

Can't get out of the way.

It hits him.

That's a fumble.

Golden Eagles jump on it at the six yard line.

And Tulane two plays later three yards out for Matt Jones.

It's 2814 early fourth.

It's gotten away from them now 4214.

But watch Zach Palmer Smith fight through the middle.

Keep his balance.

Get out of all that junk.

Gets through.

This guy carries that guy.

Look at this run by Zach Palmer.

Smith 29 yards.

You love to see that kind of fight late in the ballgame.

Then graves flushed out of the pocket tosses it to Dorian Lewis.

That's good for 15 yards.

It all leads up to a Julian Nixon two yard touchdown run to make it 42 to 21.

But Southern Miss just too good on this day.

They add one more in this one when Jalen Carter takes it 27 yards.

Here goes to the right side.

Outruns everybody to the corner of the end zone.

Southern miss was picked preseason fifth in the West.

And they are the real deal right now when it comes to Sunbelt play because they have looked outstanding and they get the win 49 to 21 Landon Graves 12 of 26 for 103 yards.

And that touchdown Braylen Braxton on the other side of the ball 18 of 23 248 and 14.

How good is real?

He he's really good.

I saw him play at high school.

Vic he's the real deal.

Oh, man.

Did he bring it?

He look good.

Next game for the Warhawks.

Back at home next weekend when they take on Old Dominion.

From the state of Mississippi, we head over to Troy, Alabama, where the Trojans will welcoming the raging Cajuns from Louisiana.

Jordan love it.

Up the middle for 16 yards for Troy.

Then Tucker Gilchrist.

He scrambles eight yards.

The long way starts out.

Right side comes all the way.

Left side sees it.

Gets it into the corner of the endzone seven nothing Troy but it took the Cajuns just two plays to respond.

Lunch.

Winfield with the start sees opening himself and he takes off running.

This is good for 39 yards down to the Troy 36.

Great job by Winfield.

And on the very next play Winfield to Shelton Sampson.

And boy you love to see Sampson getting this open in behind the defense because Winfield got crushed.

And he finds Sampson wide open for the touchdown.

We're tied at seven early second quarter tip drill Phil crashes pass bounces off of TJ apps.

And right in the hands of Curtis Flowers.

He gets it down to the one the cages would punch it in a couple of plays later and make it 14 seven on top on the road at Troy.

Then Walker Howard is back in the game.

Remember he came back a week ago in a serious way through an interception.

Well, here he comes into the game and throws one pick and it's an interception.

The problem is it was intended for Cade Jensen.

But the ball pops out.

Jack White gets it 30 yards on the return.

We're tied at 14.

Two plays into the next possession Winfield is back in the ball game.

This one he floats a little too high and it's picked off by Carlino Levine.

He returns it 34 yards for Troy to give him really good field position.

Two plays later, Tucker Gilchrist scores it from four yards out.

Look at this scrum.

And somehow he comes out of it.

Seems a little far away for quarterback.

Sneak a four yards out.

But whatever it work it.

It's 2114 now 2117.

In the third, kill Gilcrease to Ethan Conner and Conner takes it 28 yards.

That leads to a one yard touchdown by Jordan.

Love it.

And it's 2817 now.

It's 2820 after the cages get a field goal.

Fourth and nine Winfield sees one small opening and he takes off.

You got to get something done.

And he does 16 yards.

And he gets the first down.

That leads to yet another Tony Turner field goal.

It's 2823.

It's a touchdown game with seven minutes to go.

But you've got to get a stop.

They have to get a stop.

And on first and ten with three minutes to go Jordan Lovett doesn't let them get a stop.

In fact he doesn't stop until 19 yards later in the end zone for the touchdown.

And that'll do it.

Ragin Cajuns lose this one 3523 at Troy to fall at two and six overall.

One and three in conference play Troy looks very good.

6 or 2 overall four and zero and Sunbelt play.

Winfield throws for a buck 87 runs for 139 and leads the team in rushing.

The Trojans score 14 points off of three Cajun turnovers in a game that they won, 35 to 23.

But do the math.

You see what the difference coming tonight November 1st.

Louisiana stays on the road, but they're back in Alabama taking on South Alabama.

All right let's talk about the cages here for just a moment.

After we hear sound bites.

First reaction from the ballgame.

Our team is very resilient resilient.

We got a lot of fight in us.

So we just we just try not to talk about the mistakes too much and just keep keep moving forward.

That's all we can do.

You got to find ways to try to run the football, which is not easy.

You know, we're running the quarterback more than than what you really need to or should.

But I mean, it's just kind of where we are having a hard time getting a lot of movement.

I mean, it's.

No, it's definitely not the kid's fault.

I mean, it's just what it is.

I mean, you're playing I'm just playing uphill on some stuff and, you know, defense is still making plays and doing things.

I mean, obviously at the end, you know, we need to stop at the end.

Weren't able to get one.

But I mean, those guys, you know, they kept us in the game another turnover and backed up.

Get as close to it.

You know had a couple drives that you know kick some field goals on that.

Obviously you know touchdowns put you right back in it.

But you know I was just kind of it's kind of same thing a little bit you know turnover just kind of sparks.

So you know kind of spark some momentum slowing Scott it's kind of been the definition of the Cajuns season a play here a play there.

Remember Eastern Michigan.

And you lose it at the end.

And the bad kick and the penalty and all that.

And here you're in the ball game to the very end.

I got to be honest, I'm a little confused on the Walker Howard situation last week.

Mike Desormeaux said, hey, if he's getting healthy, you've got to get him to play.

And he put him in for one series.

Had a pick last week.

Now you're on the road, you have a lead lunch.

Winfield looks great.

You bring him in for one play, he throws it.

It's a pick six.

Now he's back out.

Then Winfield comes back and then he throws an interception.

I'm just a little confused.

You've never been a two quarterback system.

You were trying to find a quarterback.

One got hurt.

Another one has struggled.

You've now found your quarterback.

So what do we do.

Well I think sometimes you fall in the trap of Walker Howard.

He came back home.

It was a feel good story of getting him back home in the portal.

And he was supposed to be the guy.

What early on got for that injury.

And he probably fits this offense and what they want to do more.

But I tell you what, it is hard to say that when you watch what lunch Winfield and the production this kid had every single week go back to the game.

He just burst on the scene, had over 20 yards of offense in one quarter.

That's a special player and that's not a normal thing in my advice, I think to the Cajuns would be to you got to find a way to build this offense around lunch.

The reason you're having a hard time running the football is because all these defenses are saying that quarterback, we need to stop him.

So they're packing the box, which is making life harder on the running backs.

But I would say I would watch tons of Ravens tape, Eagles tape and watch what they're doing with their quarterbacks.

Teams can pack the box, but now you can play action, throw the tight ends, get smaller formations.

I think this whole offense needs to be built around once will fit Winfield and his skill set.

We showed you his numbers in the graphic.

Let's hear about lunch.

Winfield following Saturday night's loss.

My lunch.

Lunch is doing a great job.

He's doing everything he can.

Honestly, we just got to pick him up.

He keep playing behind him, and we going to figure it out eventually.

Week to week.

I feel like way better.

I just go out there and try to make plays.

I would say, you know, I feel pretty good.

The kid's given us a chance.

I mean, I don't know, I mean, he's making good decisions in the throw game with RPO stuff he's throwing with.

Really he threw I thought was really pretty precise in the quit game today.

You know, it's always a couple of throws you want back.

I mean that's that's playing quarterback.

But I mean he stands in the pocket.

He takes hits.

He runs really hard.

He yeah he's keeping us in the game.

I mean he's on offense right now.

I mean he's given us a chance to move the football.

You know, we made some plays in the throw game around in the day, you know, in certain spots, which was good.

Just kind of struggling with that identity right now a little bit, you know, in kind of what we can do to consistently move the football and get yards.

You weren't even at the press conference and Michael Decimos was referring to what you just said, which is kind of builder, because he's keeping them alive, making big plays.

And it's good to see Shelton Sampson getting healthy.

Five catches 74 yards in that touchdown.

Now I think it's just kind of work that consistency.

Yeah.

And I think sometimes you get frustrated as a coach because you want things done a certain way.

Whether you're a four wide receiver or team three wide receiver, you have a certain way you want to do it.

And sometimes these plays are off schedule.

I think lunch is one of those guys who he's off schedule.

He's going to make plays that aren't the conventional way.

You're installing offensive plays, but it's also hard playing defensively against guys like that.

You see every every single week, every level of football.

I would much rather play a pocket passing guy who cannot escape, get outside like the Vandy quarterback or A&M quarterback class, against LSU.

So those guys with the legs who can break plays down and keep you honest on defense, those guys make you sweat a little bit before the game.

So we'll see if the Cajuns can rebound as they're back on the road again next weekend.

Hey, because we are now in October now getting into November.

These smaller conferences have those quirky schedules.

And we saw it this past week because the Bulldogs from Louisiana, Texas, yeah, they played some football.

How about a Tuesday night action up there in Ruston where they were hosting Western Kentucky?

This conference USA match up.

The Bulldogs looking to defend the home turf three nothing.

What's Kentucky in this ball game when Blake Baker the beautiful touch to Molly and Jackson that went 41 yards.

That would lead to Baker finding David Piro for the touchdown.

And it's seven three Louisiana Tech big moment here early in the ballgame I want you to watch the blitz and the speed by Eric Hill.

And that's a fumble.

And Louisiana Tech would recover.

Except they want to go review it.

And Scott they ejected him and called it targeting.

They everything that's a big hit is not targeting in college.

I think that was face mask to face mask.

It's unfortunate even after their view that they call that Sonny Cumbie wasn't happy about it because now you're losing another key defender.

It's 2722 seven Western Kentucky at the half opening kick of the third, Sonny Cumbie pulls out the old bag of tricks on the throwback clay.

Tevin in on the throwback and look at the wall he has making his way down the near sideline 92 yards.

It gets it into the end zone.

And we got a text on the move.

Now it's 2017 and this text field goal is going to tie it at 20 with six minutes of change to go.

In the fourth quarter.

They have outscored Western Kentucky Rebels 20 the seventh without outscored of 13.

Nothing in.

There's more to come to get into the end zone in overtime.

And they score.

So now it's 2720 straight 27 overall for Louisiana Tech.

Western Kentucky faces a fourth and eight.

Tech gets a stop.

This game's over, but the toppers convert a nine and a half yard play on an outstanding catch.

They keep the drive going later.

George Hart, the third, takes it in and they decide, you know what?

We didn't come to Ruston just to go for another overtime.

We're going for the win.

Rodney Tisdale waits, looks, finds the receiver on the track and he gets it.

Cade Hutchinson and double overtime in overtime.

Rather avoids double overtime with the catch.

And Western Kentucky escapes with the victory 28 to 27.

It was Sonny Cumbie after the game.

I tell you I share with the team afterwards is really there's not a word that I can say.

There's not a message that I can say that's going to ease the wound of this sting, because it hurts.

We really have 108 guys.

I think they poured everything they could into a football game, into a week of preparation, you know, and and belief and expectation from the standpoint of what we were going to do.

And at the end of the day, Western Kentucky, you know, credit them at the two point conversion.

Their quarterback did a great job of keeping the play alive and finding a backside drag.

You know, on the two point play, you know I think our defense played a really good game in the second half.

They shut them out in the second half overtime and and you know you made it there.

The fourth made made a good throw and catch on the fourth down, you know, and get down in the situation.

So, you know, there's a lot of bright spots individually and collectively in terms of our guys playing, better in the second half together.

But ultimately we want to win the football game.

We weren't able to do that at Western Kentucky, just a big win down the stretch after being shut out in the second half to go for two and get it.

So now for the matchup for Louisiana Tech.

It's homecoming.

They will host winless Sam Houston.

That game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

Last season Sam Houston wanted it was only 9 to 3 this season.

Well, it's been ugly for Sam Houston.

Louisiana Tech will look for its fifth win overall and look to go to three and two when they host Sam Houston next week.

The Tulane Green Wave enjoying the bye week.

They will next be in action Thursday night.

It's at 630 against UTSA.

Robert Henry from UTSA leads the conference in rushing at a buck 24 per outing, the Green Wave allowing 16 just over 16.5 points for conference.

That's right, number one.

You can watch the game against Thursday night and it's a national TV audience.

It will be broadcast on ESPN.

But once Tulane gets past the UTSA game.

Did you see this Scott?

Oh I did.

Oh yeah.

Even with the team on a bye on Tuesday, Tulane made waves the Green Wave, dropping a teaser for their one of a kind City Edition uniforms and hand painted helmets.

That'll be for the homecoming game on November 15th.

That's against Florida Atlantic.

The helmets are unique.

Pay tribute to New Orleans and a variety of ways.

They got the crack, sidewalk textures, the Mardi Gras beach, street tiles that spell Tulane on the helmets.

They were paying tribute to the sewage and water board.

Now, Tulane has already posted a link for fans who purchased replicas and city Edition, but they'll be available once a team gets aware.

At first, they get it first at homecoming, then you can get it.

Those threads are high.

I want them to win 50 to nothing, because I want Coach Summerall to have a reason to put these guys in these uniforms as many times as possible, because this is almost as if, you know, you know, uniform.

Louisiana, New Orleans.

Those things are sweet.

Absolutely.

What a great look and an idea for Tulane, who's been playing very, very well, of course.

And now they want to keep that momentum going and end the season in the right way and get a win on the road, and then come back for homecoming.

Yeah, I'll be signing up.

What a great looking jersey.

All right.

Next time we see you we are going to be in the month of November.

Things getting even more and more important.

We'll have lots of games and cover when we see you Saturday for game notes.

And then all the recap of the action next week on Sunday for Scott Shanley, I'm Victor Howell, thanks for joining us for game Notes here on LPB.

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