Two teams with no iota of appearances in the Isleta New Mexico Bowl, Louisiana-Lafayette and TCU, will play against each other in the competition for the first time on Saturday afternoon.
The Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns will play against TCU’s Horned Frogs in a competition that seems like the goal of the two teams in a long time. Louisiana currently has a record of 10-3, and it’s making a record as the first Sun Belt team to play in the New Mexico Bowl, while TCU, which represents the Big 12, currently prides itself as the winner of five of their six games.
Both coaches shared their opinions on the much-anticipated game on Friday.
“Everybody wants to win a conference championship, everybody wants to play in the playoff, everybody wants to play in a bowl game, and do these things. And, you know, everybody starts with the same plan, but it’s about the work that you’re willing to do. And this team has worked relentlessly, you know, to get us back,” said Michael Desormeaux, Louisiana’s head coach.
“A mature football team handles it the way that we handled it. Had this been an immature team, or a team that really was a selfish group or wasn’t committed to each other, I’m not sure that we would have been able to turn around the season the way that they have done it,” said Sonny Dykes, TCU’s head coach.
The game will commence at University Stadium at 12:30 p.m. Organizers of the game have asked people to arrive early to get a slot, as last year’s match had more than 30,000 fans to watch the game at the stadium.
