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This college football season is giving some extra opportunities to schools that otherwise wouldn't have them.

Ten former Cajuns make up this list.

It wasn't the greatest year for ULL in 2016; but it was a step up from missing a bowl game in 2015, and helped to put a list of vacated wins behind the team. Looking ahead to 2017, the Cajuns will have to move on from Anthony Jennings at quarterback, and coach Mark Hudspeth took the first step in that process this weekend...

You don't always see a year where there are no consensus 5-star recruits on the football field in Louisiana. But that's 2017 in recruiting. So this year 3-star recruits in the state are at a premium, and 3-star quarterbacks are even more important...

The Alabama Crimson Tide is very used to playing against teams from the state of Louisiana. You could argue that Bama and LSU are one of the biggest rivalries in college football. But the Tide aren't limited to just playing LSU. Here's the news from the Louisiana Radio Network: "UL Lafayette announced today that they’ll play Alabama in football in 2018...

It would appear that UL-Lafayette's football program just won the lottery. The 2016 campaign would have been interesting under-center for the Ragin' Cajuns, but a former LSU starting quarterback has fallen in the lap of ULL. Anthony Jennings took snaps in over a dozen games over his LSU career, even starting the Outback Bowl and Music City Bowl for the Tigers...