College Football Week 3 betting action sees the Ole Miss Rebels taking on the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns on Saturday, Sept. 13 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford. Stay tuned to Cappers Picks as we provide free College Football handicapping tips all season long.
The Sun Belt Conference is led by the Louisiana Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. They shared the Sun Belt Conference title a year ago, but they were well on their way to winning it outright when star quarterback Terrance Broadway went down with an injury.
While their records look similar on the surface, the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns are 3-0 in Sun Belt play, with six consecutive wins overall, while the Troy Trojans are 3-2. As such, the Ragin’ Cajuns enter this contest as 12.5-point favorites.
The Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns will travel to the Bluegrass State to take on the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in a Tuesday evening affair. The game will have major implications in the Sun Belt standings.
The Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns found a great coach in Mark Hudspeth. In three years as head coach of this program, Hudspeth has led Lafayette to an 18-8 record. The Ragin’ Cajuns won the New Orleans Bowl last year to finish 9-4. It was their second straight New Orleans Bowl victory.
Conference USA vs the Sun Belt in some exciting bowl action. Nothing new to be playing this time of year for East Carolina who I think will be in the “Big East” this time next season. Watch out for the Cajuns who are playing in their own backyard.
I doubt we are going to see a headline “Shocker from the Swamp” but this Lafayette team in respectable. They are in the middle of the Sun Belt and last week handed Louisiana-Monroe their first conference loss – yet that Monroe team that was making the SEC look silly.
Louisiana Lafayette went 3-9 in 2010, and the team seemed destined for another disappointing year in 2011. Mark Hudspeth took over and changed the program right away. The Ragin’ Cajuns went 9-4 and picked up a bowl victory in his first year with the team.
Rickey Bustle was the head man at Louisiana-Lafayette for nine years, but last year’s disappointing season was enough to push him out of that job. Bustle’s team never won more than six games in a season.
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