For the eighth straight season, Texas State will stay at home come December as the Bobcats dropped their fourth straight game against the South Alabama Jaguars in a 38-21 loss to knock themselves out of bowl eligibility.
The game was compounded by the woes of the Texas State offense which was shut out in the first half and the struggles of the Bobcat defense in the second half.
“It’s a tale of two games in my mind,” Spavital said. “When you look at it, the offense couldn’t do anything and we struggled in the first half but we got better in the second (half). Then the defense had its struggles more in the second half, but it’s the name of the game. You got to play complementary football and you got to have all three phases of the game playing well together, and we just didn’t do that. (South Alabama) did that a lot better than we did.”
