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The Bulldogs Are Going To Have To Come Out Swinging Early In 2016

Jeff Driskel is now a 49er, Vernon Butler is a Carolina Panther, and the Baltimore Ravens picked up Kenneth Dixon in the fourth round, which leaves the Bulldogs a shell of the team they were last year. Louisiana Tech will have to smarten-up real quick for their 2016-2017 campaign, because the knockout punches start in week one at Arksansas.

Louisiana Tech can go ahead and crown themselves as the best football team in the Bayou State, not named LSU. Since Skip Holtz' arrival in 2013 the Bulldogs have been 16-8 in C-USA play, but haven't made the splash on the national stage that a few G5 teams such as Temple, Houston, and Memphis (after their shocking upset of then No.