Louisiana football vs. Buffalo: Live updates
Touchdown Louisiana football. Jacob Kibodi
First multi-touchdown game of Kibodi's career.
Cajuns leads 45-24. 7:40 4Q
Buffalo Bulls field goal
Bulls nail a 47-yard field goal. The kick makes its a two-score game.
Louisiana leads Buffalo, 38-24. 10:42 4Q
Zeon Chriss with another rushing TD
Chriss caps a 55-yard drive with a 1-yard TD run. His second rushing touchdown on the night.
Cajuns extended their lead again, 38-21. 13:46 4Q
END 3 | Louisiana 31 Buffalo 21
Touchdown Buffalo
Another mistake by the Cajuns and another TD for the Bulls.
It's 31-21 UL now... 0:47 left in the third.
Buffalo Bulls score again
Bulls cash in on the UL blunder on the muffed punt. Takes them fives plays to go 18 yards.
2-point conversion was no good.
Louisiana leads Buffalo, 31-13. 3:06 4Q
PICK 6
UL senior safety Patrick Mensah intercepts a pass and goes 24 untouched to the house for a pick-6 for the Ragin' Cajuns.
Louisiana pads its lead, 31-7. 6:30 3Q.
Jacob Kibodi with a career-long run for a touchdown for Louisiana football
On the hurry-up, Kibodi skirted up the middle and went 69 yards untouched for the score.
Big answer for the Cajuns, who's defense gave up their first TD of the night last possession.
UL up 24-7. 8:02 3Q
Buffalo Bulls breakthrough for their first TD of the night
C.J. Ogbonna on the keeper goes in from the 4. Mike Washington Jr's big, 49-yard run bolstered the Bulls on the drive that ended with a TD.
UL's lead is down to 17-7. 9:25 remaining in 3Q.
Zeon Chriss tallies his 3rd rushing TD on the season
A great block sprung Chriss down the sideline and his scores his second rushing touchdown that spans more than 50 yards in the last two games.
Cajuns now up 17-0, 12:05 3Q mark.
HALFTIME | Louisiana 10 Buffalo 0
Ragin' Cajuns tack on a field goal vs. Buffalo
UL drives 81 yards and settles for the 22-yard field goal from Kenneth Almendares. Another red zone trip that does not end with a TD.
Despite that, Cajuns lead Bulls 10-0. 4:08 left in the half.
END 1 | Louisiana 7 Buffalo 0
Zeon Chriss finds Neal Johnson for Louisiana football's first score of the game
It was Johnson's first touchdown catch since the Arkansas State game last season. The 8-yard TD strike gives UL the early, 7-0 lead.
Louisiana football looks to build off a mountain of momentum it created last weekend.
The Ragin' Cajuns (2-1) return home to Cajun Field after a two-game road swing to battle Buffalo on Saturday night (6:30 p.m., ESPN+). And the Cajuns come in scorching hot after whopping UAB, 41-21, in Birmingham in Week 3.
Buffalo comes in having dropped its first three games on the season, which includes a loss to FCS team Fordham, 40-37 in Week 2. The Bulls do have a quality quarterback in Cole Snyder, who threw for more than 3,000 yards in 2022 but the absence of a run game and poor pass defense has bottled UB down so far in 2023.
If UL is going to carry the momentum off the UAB win, its going to have to navigate the injury bug. Starting senior quarterback Ben Wooldridge is out due to a foot injury he went down with last Saturday. Freshman Zeon Chriss is scheduled to get the first start of his career, and in relief of Wooldridge last week, he put up 277 total offensive yards with two TDs.
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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers and Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers and Cajuns coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU/UL athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.
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