SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The Louisiana Tech football team could not overcome costly turnovers and the nation's 12^thranked offense, falling to UTSA by a final score of 51-7 inside of the Alamodome.
 
LA Tech (3-7, 2-4 C-USA) coughed up the ball five times (three interceptions and two fumbles).

Conference USA Preseason Player of the Year Frank Harris led the Roadrunners (8-2, 6-0 C-USA) to three first quarter touchdowns to jump out to a quick 21-0 lead they would not squander.

Tech got on the board with a 32-yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Landry Lyddy, to make it 21-7 at the end of the first quarter. The touchdown was the Bulldogs' 11^th of the year over 30 yards.

The hosts then reeled off 30 unanswered over the next two quarters, on their way to their sixth conference win of the season. 

Lyddy finished the day completing 14 of his 26 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown while throwing two interceptions. 

Defensively, Maki Carabin and Hugh Davis led the way with 11 and ten tackles, respectively. 

QUOTABLES
Head coach Sonny Cumbie...
"Any time you turn the ball over five times you're going to lose a football game. It doesn't give your team much of a chance and it magnifies that when you play a really good football team like we did today.
 
It's my job to get this team ready and we didn't play well or coach well enough to win today. This was a very tough environment to play in it makes it even harder when we make the mistakes we did today.
 
UTSA was very prepared and Frank Harris is a difference maker. They have won seven straight games this year for a reason. We have a long ways to go but we believe we can be a very good football team and we will get back and continue to show up and work to make that a reality." 
 
NOTABLES

• LA Tech now leads the all-time series with UTSA, 7-4. 
• Smoke Harris had four catches on the day, running his streak of consecutive games with a reception to 30.
• Harris had a 60-yard kickoff return during the second quarter which was the second longest return by Tech this season.  
• Bulldogs reached 100 yards on the ground for the fifth time this season, and their fourth in a row.  
• LA Tech has now forced a turnover in nine of ten games this season, courtesy of Marquis Crosby's forced fumble which was recovered by Carson Bruno following a Landry Lyddy interception in the second quarter.
• Jack Turner saw action and completed the first pass of his Bulldog career. 

UP NEXT
LA Tech heads to Charlotte on Saturday, Nov. 19 to take on the 49ers.  Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT and will be streamed live on ESPN+.
 
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