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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) Quarterback Lunch Winfield accounted for five touchdowns and 241 total yards and Louisiana<\/a>-Lafayette made its explosive second quarter hold up in a 42-39 win over Texas State<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Winfield threw for three touchdowns and ran for a pair but suffered two interceptions. He threw for 192 and ran for 49 yards. Shelton Sampson was a recipient of two of his three scoring passes and caught five passes for 80 yards.<\/p>\n Texas State’s Brad Jackson threw for 360 yards and three touchdowns and Beau Sparks had 186 yards on 10 catches and a touchdown.<\/p>\n The Ragin’ Cajuns (4-6, 3-3 Sun Belt Conference) established a 35-17 lead with the help of a four-touchdown second quarter. Winfield threw a 27-yard scoring pass to Caden Jensen, Bill Davis ran it in from the 12, Winfield threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Shelton Sampson Jr. and Winfield ran it in from the 1.<\/p>\n Trailing 42-20 early in the fourth, the Bobcats (3-6, 0-5) scored three touchdowns starting with Spark’s 49-yard touchdown run, Jackson threw a 38-yard touchdown to Sparks and Jackson threw a 21-yard touchdown to Chris Dawn Jr. with 3:12 left.<\/p>\n Louisiana-Lafayette took the ball back, ran nine plays, gained 63 yards and let the clock expire.<\/p>\n Texas State has lost five games in a row.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) Quarterback Lunch Winfield accounted for five touchdowns and 241 total yards and Louisiana-Lafayette made its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,19380,27,29,28,9327],"class_list":["post-41906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-louisiana-ragin-cajuns","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-bobcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}