The 2015 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Mark Hudspeth and played their home games at Cajun Field 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.
Preseason
Award watchlists The following players were named to preseason award watchlist
Walter Camp Award Elijah McGuire
Lombardi Award Mykhael Quave Dominique Tovell
Doak Walker Award Elijah McGuire
Paul Hornung Award Elijah McGuire
Sun Belt Media Day
Sun Belt Conference Players of the Year
Offensive Player of the Year – Elijah McGuire, RB (Louisiana-Lafayette)
Predicted standings Sun Belt Conference predicted standings 1 Georgia Southern 110 (6) 2 Louisiana-Lafayette 108 (3) 3 Arkansas State 96 (1) 4 Appalachian State 82 5 Texas State 78 6 South Alabama 68 (1) 7 UL Monroe 59 8 Troy 39 9 Georgia State 32 10 New Mexico State 30 11 Idaho 24
Preseason All–Conference Team
Offense QB Fredi Knighten (Arkansas State) RB Matt Breida (Georgia Southern) RB Elijah McGuire (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 Javon Rolland-Jones (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, New Mexico State, Texas State, and Troy, and traveled to Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Georgia State, and South Alabama.
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
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