LA Tech QB Luke Anthony named Conference USA Newcomer of the Year

RUSTON, La. – For the seventh straight season, Louisiana Tech claimed a Conference USA Football specialty award as graduate quarterback Luke Anthony was named the C-USA Newcomer of the Year as announced by the league office on Tuesday.

Anthony started in eight of Tech’s nine games this season before suffering a season-ending injury at TCU on Dec. 12. He ranks fourth in C-USA in passing efficiency (138.0), sixth in passing average per game (164.3) and ninth in total offense (157.9). The native of Dallas, Texas, completed 138-of-221 passes for 1,479 yards and 16 touchdowns.

Anthony became the third Bulldog quarterback in program history to throw at least 10 touchdown passes through the first three games of the season. He threw a season-high 314 yards and five touchdowns and had one rushing touchdown against Houston Baptist on Oct. 2. He became the fifth player in program history to account for at least six touchdowns in a single game and was the first since Cody Sokol against WKU in 2014. It was only the third time in program history that a LA Tech quarterback passed for five touchdowns and rushed for a touchdown in a single game.

Anthony collected numerous weekly awards over the course of the season, including C-USA Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 28), a two-time Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Player of the Week honorable mention (Sept. 22 and 29), a Manning Award Star of the Week (Sept. 21), Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award’s Great 8 (Sept. 28) and was named LWSA Co-Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 28). After being earning a spot on the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award’s Great 8, Anthony was also named to the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Midseason Watch List

All C-USA postseason football awards are chosen by a vote from the league’s head football coaches.

Louisiana Tech football will next look for its seventh-straight bowl victory on Wednesday, Dec. 23, as the Bulldogs take on Georgia Southern in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome at 2 p.m. (CT) in a game televised by ESPN.

Tickets for the 2020 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl are available now. LA Tech Athletics is limited to 1,000 tickets per the designation of the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and the city of New Orleans. The pass list for the LA Tech football student-athletes is included in this number.

Tickets for the New Orleans Bowl will be digital. The Tech Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Tech Ticket Office at (318) 257-3631. Due to the high demand for tickets, if the Tech Ticket Office cannot be reached by phone, fans can make their request for tickets through emailing TechTickets@latech.edu.

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