Louisiana Tech Returns to AP Top 25
By: Lance Snow
Updated: October 21, 2012
Courtesy Louisiana Tech University:
RUSTON,
La. (Oct. 21, 2012)
- After a one-week
hiatus and a record-setting performance, Louisiana Tech has returned to the
national rankings as the Bulldogs are billed at 24th in the
Associated Press poll announced Sunday.
Louisiana
Tech (6-1, 1-0 Western Athletic) makes just its third appearance in the
Associated Press poll in the program's history. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 23
by the AP two weeks ago leading into the team's game against then
22nd-ranked Texas A&M, the team's highest ranking ever.
Tech was first ranked in the AP poll in 1999 (No.
25).
In the USA
Today/Coaches Poll, Louisiana Tech is first among the teams also receiving votes
(listed 26th overall), receiving 100 votes. Tech is just four votes
shy of No. 25 Wisconsin's 104 votes in that
poll.
Tech climbed
back into the rankings after an offensive onslaught dominated Idaho, 70-28,
behind a school record 839 total offensive yards. That marks the most offensive
yards any team has recorded in a single game this season. Several other school
records were set in the win including most number of first downs in a game (39),
most number of rushing touchdowns in a game (eight) and Kenneth Dixon set the
school record for the most number of rushing touchdowns in a game by an
individual (six).
The 70 points
scored by the Bulldogs is the most in a game since scoring 77 against
Louisiana-Lafayette in 1998 while Tech did not score in the fourth quarter
against the Vandals. The 56 points scored by Tech in the first half ties a WAC
record.
Tech
quarterback Colby Cameron broke an NCAA record Saturday with 275 consecutive
passes thrown without an interception. He is currently one of two quarterbacks
in the country - along with Alabama's A.J. McCarron - to have not thrown an
interception this season.
No. 24
Louisiana Tech will play at New Mexico State (1-6, 0-3 WAC) on Saturday, Oct. 27
with a 7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT kickoff set in Las Cruces,
N.M.
