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This week's game slate should give a pretty good idea of what remains. SLU hosts Northwestern St which should be a fairly easy win for them, SFA hosts Nicholls which should give a comparison between Lamar and SFA and ETAM is at UIW who are looking to rebound from an overall disappointing start.

I believe ESPN is correct as ETAM tried a couple of laterals on the final kickoff and Hamric intercepted one and returned it to the end zone. The live stats didn't update it, so I chose not to include it in the post. It only changed the final score, not the outcome. Lamar returns home next week to take on UTRGV.

Cards get a big break as ETAM gets called for a leverage penalty on Lamar's game tying field goal attempt with 12 seconds on the clock. The call allows the Cards to take the FG off the board and Fuselier catches the go-ahead touchdown with three seconds on the clock. Lamar scored an earlier touchdown with about nine minutes left in the game to get to within three points. Lamar wins 27-23.

I don't think there are any conference rules about game times. There have been several six and seven PM conference games this season. I don't know why Lamar wants afternoon home games. It's hard enough to get fans to home games, why compete with the big boy's afternoon games. There are at least a few that might come to Lamar game after Texas or A&M is over and it's not quite as hot.

Lamar goes on the road for its second conference game. ET presents another unknown when it comes to the quality of their team. Currently they are 1-4 with all of their losses in the non-conference. The losses are all to teams with winning records and two of them are FBS top 20 teams. They defeated Northwestern St on the road for their conference opener. Game time is 6 PM Saturday. I don't think there will be any easy games in conference this year.

I think it is still too early to say who looks to be a strong team and who isn't. For example, UIW has four losses, one to a FBS and three to FCS schools including two in conference who may be upper half in the conference standings by the end of the year. They have one win and one loss to FCS Big Sky Conference upper half teams. Southeastern looks strong by scores but in reality, have two losses to FBS schools and four wins over FCS schools that may all be in the bottom half of their respective conference standings come the end of the year. SFA is also questionable, although they did appear to get a good win over UIW. SFA lost to Abilene Christian who UIW defeated handily. Lamar still has a lot to prove, but with a few breaks could have an excellent record come the end of the year.

Lamar gets the win. Cards wind up with 337 yards of offense, although the majority of that came in the first half. Nicholls had 348 yards of total offense. Lamar will travel to East Texas A&M next week. Glad Lamar got this win.

With 3:36 left in the game Fusilier makes an 88-yard punt return for a touchdown to give Lamar a 24-17 lead.

Lamar has 278 total yards of offense in the first half with 226 in the air and 52 on the ground. Still a little inconsistent as two big plays make up more than half of the passing yards. Nicholls got 227 yards in the first half and will get the ball first in the second half.

Cards play continues to improve on the day with Lamar getting another 2nd quarter stop against Nicholls offense and then going on a long drive ending with a field goal with 2:28 left in the half.

Lamar goes on an eleven play 80-yard drive ending in a three-yard run by McCowan to tie up the game with 7:22 remaining in the half.

Lamar defense hasn't been able to stop Nicholls in the first quarter and the quarter ends with Nicholls up 14-7.

Nicholls comes back with an elven play 88-yard drive to tie the game with 9:10 left in the first quarter.

McCowan starting at QB for Lamar and Lamar gets the opening possession. McCowan completes an 85-yard pass and catch to Blake Thomas for a one play touchdown to take a very early 7-0 lead. Puddin should like this.

I don't have any insider information, but even though I think I would prefer McCowan, I expect it to be Coleman that starts the game.