LAFAYETTE – With two seconds remaining on the clock, redshirt junior placekicker Nate Snyder sent a 53-yard field goal sailing through the uprights as time expired to send No. 19 Louisiana past Georgia Southern, 20-18, on Saturday afternoon at Cajun Field.
Snyder's made kick is just the seventh of 53-yards or more in program history and is the longest kick by a Ragin' Cajun since Stevie Artigue drilled a 53-yarder during the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Championship Game at Appalachian State on Dec. 7, 2019.
Louisiana is now 3-0 on the year, its best start to a season since opening the 1988 campaign with the same record, while the victory marks the first time that the Ragin' Cajuns have defeated both Georgia State and Georgia Southern in the same year.