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According to NCAA rules, Football Bowl Subdivision teams are allowed to schedule up to 12 regular-season contests in a season, or 13 in the event that one of the team’s games is on the road against the University of Hawaii.
But as the 2026 season draws nearer, the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs have a bit of an issue. At the moment, the Bulldogs have a whopping 20 games listed on their schedule, including several midweek matchups.
So, what gives? Surely the Bulldogs are aware of the rules. And there’s no possible way that a team could hold up over a 20-game schedule, even if it were allowed to play one.
This is one of the more insane stories coming out of the College Football offseason
La Tech, due to an ongoing lawsuit with Conference USA, is currently scheduled for games in both C-USA & Sun Belt for the upcoming season
The result, this 20 game gauntlet pic.twitter.com/caeA9UbE6P
— Nick Perkins (@NickyPerkss) March 14, 2026
Louisiana Tech Is Currently Locked In A Lawsuit With Conference USA
In July of 2025, the Bulldogs accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt, and the conference announced that Louisiana Tech would join “no later than July 1, 2027.”
University officials informed Conference USA that the school planned to leave the CUSA, which it joined in 2013, on July 1, 2026. However, the two sides did not agree on that departure date.
Amid the impasse, the University of Louisiana System sued Conference USA so that Louisiana Tech could leave the conference by July 1, 2026.
With a decision still pending, that means that the Bulldogs currently have both a full Conference USA and a full Sun Belt conference slate on their schedule, leading to both midweek games and double-headers listed on the team’s official schedule.
Meanwhile, head coach Sonny Cumbie, who is entering his fifth season with the program and coming off his first winning season with the Bulldogs, is left to plan for both potential outcomes, which seems less than ideal.