The Texas State football team will not only be playing their first Southland Conference game of the season, but the Bobcats will also be making their first appearance on the Southland Conference Television Network when they travel to Hammond, La., and play Southeastern Louisiana at Strawberry Stadium on Saturday, October, 9. The game is scheduled to kick off at 2:00 p.m. Doug Anderson will serve as the play-by-play announcer and LaDarrin McLane will be the analyst.
CHANNEL LISTINGS TO WATCH THE GAME
The game will be shown on KBVO-MyAustin TV in the Austin and San Marcos areas and KCWX-TV (channel 2 in San Antonio). KBVO MyAustin TV channel listings are channel 7 on ATT U-Verse, channel 1525 on Time Warner Cable, channel 51 on DirecTV and channel 18 and 818 (HD) on Grande Communications. The game also will be shown tape-delayed on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. on Fox College Sports Pacific.
For other channel listings go to www.southland.org or click here. Fans can also hear the game on the radio at KTSW- 89.9 FM with Brant Freeman calling the play-by-play and Bill Culhane serving as the analyst. Fans can also listen via the internet through Texas State's audio streaming link.
There are also citywide watch parties throughout the San Marcos area at Texas Roadhouse, Panhandler Pizza, Palmer's Restaurant Bar and Courtyard, Chili's, Craig O's Pizza, Kip's Texas BBQ and Saltgrass Steakhouse.
The Teams
Texas State enters the game with a 3-1 record and is off to its best start since the 2005 campaign when the Bobcats opened that year with a 6-1 mark before advancing to the semifinals of the NCAA FCS playoffs.
Texas State is ranked 15th in the FCS Coaches Poll and 17th in the The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS Top 25 poll on October 4 after winning its third straight game. The Bobcats defeated Southern Utah 42-28 on Sept. 25 after upsetting then No. 17 Cal Poly on Sept. 18 and beating Southern Arkansas, 31-17, on Sept. 11.
Meanwhile, the Lions enter the game with a 1-3 record, but that record is very deceiving when you consider that Southeastern Louisiana's three losses are by a combined total of eight points. The Lions began the year with a 27-21 loss at Tulane on Sept. 2 before suffering one-point losses against Lamar (29-28 on Sept. 18) and at Louisiana-Monroe (21-20 on Sept. 25). Southeastern Louisiana's lone victory this season was a 24-10 victory over Tennessee-Martin on Sept. 11.
SERIES HISTORY
This marks the 14th meeting between Texas State and Southeastern Louisiana. The Bobcats own a 12-1 record against the Lions with the lone loss being a 51-50 overtime loss in San Marcos in 2009. Texas State has a 5-0 record against Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond.
WHO'S NEXT?
Following the Southeastern Louisiana game, Texas State will return home for two straight Southland Conference games when the Bobcats play host to Nicholls on October 16 at 6:00 p.m. and Northwestern State on October 23 at 3:00 p.m. in its annual Homecoming game.
