Louisiana wins the Sun Belt West Division thanks to the loss at South Alabama

For the fifth time in seven seasons, the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns will advance to the Sun Belt Conference Championship game as winners of the SBC West Division.

Louisiana’s spot was secured Friday when South Alabama lost to Texas State 45-38. South Alabama suffered its third conference loss and fell to fourth place behind Texas State (which also suffered three SBC losses).

Louisiana and Arkansas State occupy the top two spots in the division at 6-1 and 5-2, respectively, in conference play. However, Louisiana has one straight win against Arkansas State since the beginning of the year. So even if Arkansas State beats Old Dominion on Saturday and Louisiana loses to the ULM Warhawks, the Cajuns still retain the division title thanks to this tiebreaker.

Michael Desormeaux’s Cajuns play their regular season finale at ULM on Saturday at noon ET on ESPNU.

The Sun Belt Championship game is scheduled for December 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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