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Marshall Football To Meet Louisiana In 2024 Hercules Tires SBC Championship
12/1/2024 10:00:00 AM | Football
Herd represents SBC East Division, travels to Cajun Field to face Ragin’ Cajuns
2024 Hercules Tires SBC Championship Tickets
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Football will travel to Louisiana to take on the Ragin' Cajuns in the 2024 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Conference Football Championship at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Cajun Field in Lafayette, Louisiana.
The 2024 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Football Championship will be shown on ESPN. Those wishing to purchase tickets can click HERE.
The site was announced on Sunday morning following the administration of the SBC's tiebreaker for teams of like records in conference who did not face each other in the regular season.
That tiebreaker used the composite of the computer rankings – Anderson & Hester, Colley Matrix, Wolfe and Massey – to determine who the host site would be.
-Â Â Â Â Â Anderson & Hester: Louisiana 41, Marshall 46
-Â Â Â Â Â Colley Matrix: Louisiana 35, Marshall 37
-Â Â Â Â Â Wolfe Ratings: Marshall 35, Louisiana 37
-Â Â Â Â Â Massey Ratings: Louisiana 58, Marshall 65
Marshall earned the right to represent the SBC East Division in the championship game after a thrilling 35-33 double-overtime win at James Madison on Saturday night.
In that contest, Marshall rallied from a 17-0 third quarter deficit to hand the Dukes their first and only loss at home in 2024.
Wide receiver Tychaun Chapman took a reverse for the game-tying 10-yard touchdown run in the second overtime while Chuck Montgomery caught a pass from quarterback Braylon Braxton for the game-winning two-point conversion.
It will be Marshall's first time in a league championship game since 2020 (Conference USA during COVID) and its first time on the road for a conference championship since the 2013 season.
Marshall's last conference championship came while the Herd was a member of Conference USA in 2014 when the Thundering Herd defeated Louisiana Tech, 26-23, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
The contest will mark the third-ever meeting between Marshall and Louisiana – the first coming in the 2021 New Orleans Bowl and the second coming in the 2022 SBC opener for the Thundering Herd. Louisiana won both those meetings.
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