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25 Louisiana Football Seniors Will Take Cajun Field One Last Time On Saturday

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THE MATCHUP

Its senior day for Louisiana Football as the South Alabama Jaguars come to Cajun Field in the final home game of the 2018 season.

LOUISIANA VS. SOUTH ALABAMA

Louisiana and South Alabama meet for the seventh-time, with Louisiana having won the previous two matchups.
At Cajun Field, Louisiana has not lost a game to the Jaguars in three meetings all-time.
In games played at Cajun Field, Louisiana has outscored South Alabama 146-96, over the three meetings in Lafayette.

A RAGIN' CAJUNS VICTORY WOULD

Give Louisiana six wins for the first time 2016 and push the Ragin' Cajuns over .500 for the first time since winning the season opener against Grambling on Sept. 1.
Extend Louisiana's winning streak at home to four-straight games. That would be the best in-season winning streak at home since 1995 when Louisiana beat UAB (9/9), New Mexico State (10/14), Pacific (10/21) and Louisiana Tech (11/4).

CALAIS RUNS LIKE IT'S 1971

During the late stretches of the first quarter, junior running back took a hand-off on the first play of Louisiana's fourth drive of the game and hit the edge with no hesitation, going 92 yards for a touchdown blowing by the entire Georgia State defense.
The 92-yard dash broke a 47-year old record for the longest run in Louisiana Football history, breaking the previous record of 90 yards set by Reggie Dupre at Southeastern Louisiana in 1971.
Since Dupre's run was at Southeastern Louisiana, Calais' run is also broke the longest run at Cajun Field, breaking Elijah McGuire's 88-yard touchdown run vs. Northwestern State in 2015.

92 YARDS IS A LONG WAY

Calais' 92-yard run ranks near the top of the FBS in terms of length. It sits as the fourth-longest run by any running back in the FBS this season, and over the weekend it was tied for eighth-most yards on the ground.
Calais is one of just five running backs in the country that have gone for at-least 90 yards on the ground.

TURNING ON THE CALAIS JETS

At the end of Louisiana's 36-22 win over Georgia State, Calais had racked up a career-best 186 yards and scored three touchdowns on the ground.
186 yards puts Calais second in the Sun Belt Conference in terms of rushing yards gained, and he sits behind only teammate Elijah Mitchell (191 yards). And the total yardage ties Calais for the 17th-best performance in school history.
Calais also racked up three touchdowns on the ground, becoming the second running back from Louisiana to have done that this season, with Mitchell having done it twice this year (at Texas State, vs. New Mexico State).
Individually it is the fifth-time this season that a running back from the Sun Belt has run for at least three-touchdowns, the most in a single game for a Sun Belt back, and it means that three of the fives times a Sun Belt back has scored three rushing touchdowns in a game, it has been a Louisiana running back.

BYRNS DROPS DIMES

Freshman punter Rhys Byrns had a career-day against Georgia State, opening the game with back-to-back punts inside-the-10. The first landed on the 1-yard-line and the second finished up on the 3-yard-line both at the tail end of Louisiana first two drives.
Through the game, with four total punts for a net-yardage of 148, Byrns made sure that Georgia State had a tough time offensively, giving the Panthers an average starting position of the 11-yard-line.
Byrns now has 12 punts downed inside-the-20 on the season, having racked up three against Georgia State, and that ties him for first in the Sun Belt Conference.

CALAIS GETS THE POTW NOD

Calais' performance earned him Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week, giving Louisiana its third SBC Offensive Player of the Week on the season.
Louisiana is the only team in the conference that has had three SBC Offensive Players of the Week and it is the first time since 2013 that the Ragin' Cajuns have had three SBC Offensive POTW's in the same season.

LOUISIANA RUNS FOR A FEW YARDS

Louisiana finished with 355 yards on the ground, giving Louisiana the most rushing yards in a single game this season.
That gives Louisiana four games with at least 300 yards rushing, and that is the most amount of games with at least 300 yards rushing in a single season since the Ragin' Cajuns had four games of at least 300 yards rushing in 2008.

LOUISIANA CAN RUSH LONGER THEN MOST

Through the season, the Ragin' Cajuns have had 12 rushing plays that have gone for 40-plus yards. That ties them for second in the FBS for rushing plays at 40-plus yards.
When factoring in rushing plays that have gone over 60-plus yards, Louisiana has had five plays break the 60-yard barrier, and that ties them for fourth in the country.
Louisiana is one of five teams in the FBS that have had a running play go over 90 yards on the season, joining Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Pittsburgh and TCU. And the Ragin' Cajuns are the only Group of Five school to have had a run go over 90 yards

MITCHELL RETURNS IN FORCE

Sophomore running back Elijah Mitchell, who sat out Louisiana's game at Troy, returned with a bang, racking up 136 rushing yards and scoring one rushing touchdown on 19 carries, in Louisiana win over Georgia State.
That gives Mitchell three 100-yard games this season, and he has nine rushing touchdowns this season, which ranks him 36th in the FBS.

PRO FOOTBALL FOCUSES ON LOUISIANA

Pro Football Focus, which each week names a National Team of the Week, rated Calais as the best running back in the FBS, following his 186-yard, three touchdown performance on the ground.
QB - Shea Patterson (Michigan): 94.2
RB - Raymond Calais (Louisiana): 89.4
RB - Ryquell Armstead (Temple): 83.0
WR - D'Marius Gillespie (ULM): 90.0
WR - Lil'Jordan Humphrey (Texas): 87.4
WR - Kirk Merritt (Arkansas State): 86.8
TE - Caleb Wilson (UCLA): 93.6
OT - Alex Palczewski (Illinois): 90.2
G - Shakir Carr (Central Michigan): 84.7
C - Steve Eipper (Central Michigan): 89.4
G - Connor McGovern (Penn State): 79.3
OT - Brandon Walton (Florida Atlantic): 89.2

RAGAS IS ON THE DOORSTEP

Sophomore running back Trey Ragas, who is 128 rushing yards away from 1,000 on the season, is one 100-yard game away from tying the school record for 100-yard games in a season, which is six, accomplished twice by Tyrell Fenroy in both 2006 and 2007.

FAMILIAR FACES UP FRONT

Over the nine games that Louisiana has played this season, the Ragin' Cajuns have had the same starting five offensive linemen.
From left to right, juniors Rico Robinson (tackle), Ken Marks (guard), Cole Prudhomme (Center), Kevin Dotson (guard) and Robert Hunt (tackle) have all anchored the Louisiana offense.
It is the first time since 2014 that Louisiana has had the same starting five offensive linemen through the first 10 weeks of the season.
Louisiana is one of two teams in the conference that has had the same five starters in the same five positions on the offensive line this season, the other being ULM.

FBS FIRST YEAR HEAD COACHES OVERALL

Name	Team	Record	Conference	Previous Week	Upcoming
Josh Heupel	UCF	9-0	American Athletic	W, 35-24 (vs. Navy)	Nov. 17 vs. Cincinnati
Herm Edwards	Arizona State	6-4	PAC-12	W, 31-28 (vs. UCLA)	Nov. 17 at Oregon
Billy Napier	Louisiana	5-5	Sun Belt	W, 36-22 (vs. Georgia State)	Nov. 17 vs. South Alabama
Jeremy Pruitt	Tennessee	5-5	SEC	W, 24-7 (vs. (11) Kentucky)	Nov. 17 vs. Missouri
Jonathan Smith	Oregon State	2-8	PAC-12	L, 17-48 (at Stanford)	Nov. 17 at Washington
Sean Lewis	Kent State	2-8	MAC	L, 14-48 (at Buffalo)	Nov. 15 vs. Toledo
Mike Bloomgren	Rice	1-10	C-USA	L, 13-28 (at Louisiana Tech)	Nov. 17 at Louisiana State

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