Georgia Southern and Sam Houston will satisfy Thursday in the 2024 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, which will, as soon as again, pit a group from Conference USA versus a group from the Sun Belt.
Fans of the bowl will be enjoyed see some new blood in the video game with Sam Houston making its very first journey to a bowl of any kind after going 9-3 in its 2nd season as an FBS program. This will be Georgia Southern's 2nd journey to the New Orleans Bowl after beating Louisiana Tech in 2020.
Georgia Southern, which completed third in the Sun Belt at 8-4, is riding a two-game winning streak into the New Orleans Bowl. Another win for the Eagles would match the second-best overall in program FBS history.
It would likewise provide their very first bowl win because that 2020 win and initially considering that Clay Helton took control of as head coach in 2022. Helton has actually lost 4 straight bowls going back to his time at USC, consisting of the Camellia Bowl his very first year at Georgia Southern and the Myrtle Beach Bowl in 2023.
Sam Houston was likewise a third-place group this year, and the Bearkats have a lot of momentum getting in the New Orleans Bowl after winning 4 of their last 5 video games, consisting of a win over Liberty in the routine season ending. Their six-win enhancement over last season assisted head coach K.C. Keeler land the head coach task at Temple, so they'll be playing with offending planner Brad Cornelsen as interim coach.
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