SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The UTSA football program announced Tuesday that it will host the Southern Jaguars on Sept. 2, 2017.The Roadrunners and Jaguars of the Southwestern Athletic Conference have never played.
Southern, a Football Championship Subdivision program located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, finished 9-4 and won the SWAC West Division with an 8-1 record last fall. The Jaguars suffered a 38-24 loss to Alcorn State in the conference title game.
UTSA is a member of Conference USA and was 4-8,(3-5 C-USA) in 2014. The Roadrunners home games are played at the Alamodome (65,000 seats).
UTSA now has three non-conference games scheduled for 2017, as it will play Baylor on Sept. 9 in Waco and Texas State on Sept. 23 in San Marcos.
The Roadrunners will open the 2015 slate against Arizona on Thursday, Sept. 3, in Tucson, Ariz., before returning home to host Kansas State on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Alamodome. UTSA also travels to Stillwater, Okla., for the second consecuitve season to play Oklahoma State one week later (Sept. 19) and it will host Colorado State on Sept. 26 in the final non-conference contest of its fifth year of football. All four opponents made bowl appearances and were ranked in both The Associated Press and Amway/USA Today Coaches Top 25 Polls at one point this past season.
Season tickets are on sale now. Orders can be made by calling (210-458-UTSA (8872) or clicking here.
Courtesy UTSA Athletics
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