The 2015 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the

University of Louisiana at Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and the s ...

in the

2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on September 3, 2015 and ended on D ...

. They were led by fifth-year head coach

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and played their home games at

Cajun Field Cajun Field is a football stadium located on the South Campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the city of Lafayette, Louisiana. Nicknamed The Swamp, it is the home field of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns athletics. Cajun Field is primaril ...

in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Ragin' Cajuns were members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a five way tie for fifth place.

Previous season

Louisiana-Lafayette went 9–4 last season. However, in 2015, 8 wins, including their bowl victory, were vacated due to massive NCAA violations. The Ragin' Cajuns finished 2nd in the Sun Belt Conference and were awarded the New Orleans Bowl as the conference champion, Georgia Southern were ineligible for post-season play due to their FCS-FBS transition. The defeated the Nevada Wolf Pack 16–3 for their final series of 4 consecutive bowl appearances and victories.

Preseason

Award Watchlist

The following players were named to preseason award watchlist

Walter Camp Award The Walter Camp Player of the Year Award is given annually to the collegiate American football player of the year, as decided by a group of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I FBS head coaches and sports information directo ...

Elijah McGuire Elijah Lamont McGuire Jr. (born June 1, 1994) is an American football running back who is a free agent. He played college football at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Early years McGuire attended and played high school football for Van ...

Lombardi Award The Rotary Lombardi Award is an award for college football in the United States. Awarded by the Rotary Club of Houston, Texas annually to the college football player "who best embodies the values and spirit of NFL's legendary coach Vince Lomba ...

* Mykhael Quave * Dominique Tovell

Doak Walker Award Since 1990 the Doak Walker Award honors the top running back in college football in the United States. It is named in honor of Doak Walker, a former running back who played for the SMU Mustangs from 1945 to 1949 and in the National Football Le ...

Paul Hornung Award The Paul Hornung Award is a college football award that was created in January 2010 by the Louisville Sports Commission (LSC) with the support of Paul Hornung, a native and resident of Louisville, Kentucky and member of the College Football Hall ...

Sun Belt Media Day

Sun Belt Conference Players of the Year

Offensive Player of the Year – Elijah McGuire, RB (Louisiana-Lafayette)

Preseason Standings

Preseason All–Conference Team

''Offense'' :QB Fredi Knighten (Arkansas State) :RB

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(Georgia Southern) :RB

(Louisiana-Lafayette) :WR J. D. McKissic (Arkansas State) :WR Donovan Harden (Georgia State) :WR Rashon Ceaser (UL Monroe) :TE Joel Ruiz (Georgia State) :OL Jesse Chapman (Appalachian State) :OL Darien Foreman (Georgia Southern) :OL Chris May (South Alabama) :OL Joseph Scelfo (South Alabama) :OL Adrian Bellard (Texas State) ''Defense'' :DL Chris Stone (Arkansas State) :DL Ronald Blair (Appalachian State) :DL Gerrand Johnson (UL Monroe) :DL

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(Arkansas State) :LB John Law (Appalachian State) :LB Xavier Woodson (Arkansas State) :LB Joseph Peterson (Georgia State) :DB Doug Middleton (Appalachian State) :DB Mitch Lane (UL Monroe) :DB David Mims II (Texas State) :DB Montres Kitchens (Troy) ''Specialists'' :PK Aleem Sunanon (South Alabama) :P Austin Rehkow (Idaho) :RS Blaise Taylor (Arkansas State)

Roster

Schedule

Louisiana–Lafayette announced their 2015 football schedule on February 27, 2015. The 2015 schedule consisted of six home and away games in the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns hosted Sun Belt foes Louisiana–Monroe,

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, and

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, and traveled to Appalachian State,

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, Georgia State, and

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. :Schedule source:

Game summaries

Northwestern State

Akron

at Louisiana Tech

Texas State

at Arkansas State

Louisiana–Monroe

at Georgia State

at South Alabama

New Mexico State

at Appalachian State

Troy

References

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