The Texas State football team will be seeking its first Sun Belt Conference victory this season when the Bobcats play their first Sun Belt home game against Louisiana Saturday night at Bobcat Stadium. The game kicks off at 6:06 p.m.

Texas State will be playing its annual Homecoming Game against the Ragin' Cajuns and look to improve its overall record to 3-4 and Sun Belt mark to 1-2 after dropping their first two conference games at Georgia State and at ULM.
 
Meanwhile, Louisiana enters the game with a 2-4 record and the Ragin' Cajuns are 1-2 against Sun Belt Conference teams after falling 24-0 against Appalachian State on Oct. 12. The Cajuns opened their Sun Belt schedule with a 28-23 victory against South Alabama and also fell at New Mexico State 37-31 in double overtime.
 
This is the fourth meeting between the two schools in a series that began in 2013 when the Bobcats joined the Sun Belt Conference.  The two teams first met in Lafayette with the Ragin Cajuns claiming a 48-24 victory, but the win was vacated due to NCAA sanctions. Louisiana also won 34-10 in San Marcos in 2014 before posting a 49-27 victory in Lafayette last year.
 
MEDIA COVERAGE
Saturday's game will be televised on Spectrum Sports and ESPN3 with Marc Hoenig calling the play-by-play and Bucky Godbolt serving as the analyst.
 
The game can be heard live on 1300 The Zone (1300 AM) in Austin, KTSW (89.9 FM) in San Marcos, KLUP the Answer (930 AM) in San Antonio and on www.txstatebobcats.com. Brant Freeman is the play-by-play announcer with Bill Culhane serving as analyst and Ben Campos serving as the sideline reporter.
 
THE COACHES
Texas State's Everett Withers is in his first season with the Bobcats and has a 27-17 career record following the ULM game.
 
Mark Hudspeth is in his 13 season as a head coach and sixth season at Louisiana with an 86-48 career record.
 
SCOUTING TEXAS STATE
The Bobcats are 46-32-1 in homecoming games overall after winning three of their last four Homecoming games.  Texas State beat Idaho in 2012 and 2014, and edged South Alabama in 2013. This season, Texas State split its first two home games after beating Incarnate Word 48-17 and falling against then-No. 6-ranked Houston.
 
Texas State became the fifth FBS team this season to return a fumble and an interception for a touchdown when Stan Kanu returned an interception 53 yards for a touchdown and Damani Alexcee returned a fumble 50 yards for another TD at ULM. It is the first time since Oct. 4, 1997 against Troy that the Bobcats had previously returned a fumble and interception for a touchdown.
 
Texas State's Ishmael Davis blocked an extra point attempt at ULM. It was the fourth blocked kick by the Bobcats this season and that ties Oklahoma State and Texas for the most in the nation.
 
Bryan London recorded a career-high and game-high 13 tackles to lead Texas State in tackles at ULM. Gabe Loyd also logged a career-best 12 stops, while Damani Alexcee recorded a season-best 11 tackles against the Warhawks. It marks the second time that the Bobcats have had three players record 10 tackles in the same game. The first time came at Ohio when London recorded 12 tackles, Javante O'Roy logged 11 stops and Loyd had 10.
 
Bryan London, Gabe Loyd and Damani Alexcee registered double digit tackles to mark the second time this season that the Bobcats have had three players log 10 or more tackles in a game this season. The first time was at Ohio when London, Javante O'Roy and Gabe Loyd combined for 33 tackles. London, Gabe Loyd and Damani Alexcee combined for 36 stops at ULM.  That marks the first time since 2014 that Texas State had three players record 10-or-tackles in two games during a season.
 
Lumi Kaba averaged 49.2 yards on six punts at ULM after logging three 50-yard punts in the game, including a game-best of 53 yards. Kaba is tied for the national lead with fifteen 50-yard punts this season. He also had punts of 51 and 52 yards in the ULM game.
 
SCOUTING LOUISIANA
Louisiana ranks seventh among FBS schools in net punting average (43.3).
 
As a team, the Ragin' Cajuns rank 25th nationally in rushing defense allowing 129.5 yards per game.
 
Wide receiver Al Riles has caught a pass in 22 consecutive games dating back to the 2014 season.
 
Elijah McGuire (288 points) is one touchdown shy of tying former Ragin' Cajuns running back Tyrell Fenroy (294, 2005-08) for the all-time lead in scoring.
 
Twenty-nine players have seen action for the first time this season for the Ragin' Cajuns.