Texas State (5-6, 2-5 Sun Belt) vs South Alabama (4-7, 3-4 Sun Belt)

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025
UFCU Stadium (28,000) | San Marcos, Texas
Kickoff: 2:00 p.m. CT

TV: ESPN+
            Brant Freeman (Play-by-play)
            Keith Moreland (Analyst)

Radio: KTSW 89.9 & Varsity Network (free app)
            Clint Shields (Play-by-play)
            Geff Gandy (Analyst)

X/Twitter Updates: @TXSTATEFOOTBALL

Head Coach GJ Kinne Week 14 Media Availability
Quarterback Brad Jackson Week 14 Media Availability

Opening Drive...

• Saturday serves as Senior Day for 23 Bobcats.
• The Bobcats are coming off a 31-14 win over ULM to keep bowl eligibility alive in 2025.
• TXST won its second consecutive bowl game and finished the 2024 slate 8-5 overall and 5-3 in conference play, winning the most Sun Belt league games for the program since 2014. 
• The eight overall wins gave the Bobcats back-to-back seasons of reaching the mark, having not done so since the 1982-83 seasons.
• GJ Kinne became the first head coach to record consecutive eight-win seasons since Jim Wacker in 1981-82.
• TXST enters its final season in the Sun Belt, announcing on June 30 that it will transition to the Pac-12 conference on July 1, 2026.
• Texas State posted the highest home season attendance average the program has seen in 2024 (22,649) besting the 2023 total, and had two sellouts at UFCU Stadium in 2024 (UTSA & Arkansas State).
• In January, Head Coach GJ Kinne announced a trio of football staff updates including the promotion of Landon Keopple to Offensive Coordinator and the hirings of Tanner Burns and Randy Martinez.
• Brad Jackson, Lincoln Pare, Dorion Strawn, Kalil Alexander, Ryan Nolan, Treylin Payne and David Nunez were voted on by their teammates as captains for the 2025 season.
• For the second consecutive season, and third in the last four, Texas State won the Sun Belt Conference's Vic Bubas Cup, which is presented annually to the league's top athletics department.
• Beginning with the 2025 season, the Sun Belt Conference will publish availability reports for all conference football games.
• TXST opened the Johnny and Nathali Weisman Football Performance Center this season, which includes coach's offices, athletic training facilities, the Trevillion Weight Room and team meeting rooms.

A Win vs South Alabama Means...

• Texas State extends its lead in the series to 7-4 and wins its 3rd straight against the Jaguars.
• The Bobcats win their final game as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. 
• GJ Kinne wins his 22nd game at the helm for the Bobcats, one win shy of tying him for 3rd all-time for DI (FBS/FCS) wins with the program.
• The Bobcats become Bowl eligible for the fifth time in program history.

Inside the Series... 
All-Time Record: TXST leads 6-4
Home: TXST leads 5-0
Away: USA leads 4-1
Most points scored by TXST: 52 (2023)
Most points scored by USA: 44 (2023)
Largest margin of victory by TXST: 18 (2015)
Largest margin of victory by USA: 17 (2022)
Longest win streak by TXST: 2
Longest win streak by USA: -

Last 5 Meetings

Date	S	Res	TXST	USA
11/29/2024	A	L	45	38
11/25/2023	H	W (4OT)	52	44
11/12/2022	A	L	21	38
10/9/2021	H	W	33	31
10/17/2020	A	W	20	30

Last Time Versus...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Mannie Nunnery's 60-yard pick-6 in the fourth quarter provided enough safe distance for Texas State and it went on to beat South Alabama 45-38 in a back-and-forth affair.

Nunnery's interception return gave Texas State a 45-35 advantage, the largest lead either team had all game. Before the score, Texas State took the lead for good when Jordan McCloud threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Joey Hobert with 11:39 left to play in the game. The Bobcats used a 12-play, 90-yard drive that lasted five minutes to reclaim the lead.

Ismail Mahdi ran for 147 yards and 20 carries and scored a touchdown for the Bobcats. McCloud threw for 248 yards, a touchdown and was intercepted twice.

Lopez threw for 190 yards and a touchdown and was intercepted twice. Fluff Bothwell ran for 81 yards on six carries and scored two touchdowns for South Alabama (6-6, 5-3).

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