VERMILLION, S.D. — No. 4 South Dakota football (0-1, 0-0 MVFC) gets the FCS portion of the 2025 season under way with a trip to Beaumont, Texas to battle the Lamar University Cardinals (0-1, 0-0 SLC) out of the Southland Conference Saturday night at 6 p.m. from Provost Umphrey Stadium on ESPN+.
 
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Dan Gresham and LeMont Williams on the call. You can listen to the game on Coyote Sports Network with the voice of the Coyotes John Thayer beginning the pre-game show at 5 p.m with Gary Culver and Jerry Palleschi joining him for the call in Beaumont.
 

Game 2 | No. 4 SOUTH DAKOTA (0-1, 0-0 MVFC) at LAMAR (0-1, 0-0 Southland)
Date | Time	Saturday, September 6 | 6:00 PM (CT)
Location	Beaumont, Texas | Provost Umphrey Stadium (16,000)
Television	ESPN+ - Dan Gresham (PxP) and LeMont Williams (Analyst)
Radio	Coyote Sports Network (John Thayer, Gary Culver, Jerry Palleschi) [KVHT 106.3 FM]
Live Stats	StatBroadcast
Game Notes	South Dakota | Lamar | MVFC
Social Media	@SDCoyotesFB  | #GoYotes x #WeAreSouthDakota | @sdcoyotesfb  | Facebook

KEY STORYLINES

• South Dakota is in their 130^th season of college football and with their 31^st head coach in program history.
• USD enters the 2025 campaign on the heels of back-to-back 10+ win seasons for the first time since 1985-86.
• South Dakota begins inside the top-5 this season, checking in at No. 4 in the FCS STATS Perform poll in the first regular season release.
• South Dakota comes off a loss to FBS Iowa State in Ames last week.
• The trip to Texas marks the first game in the state of Texas for the Yotes since 2017 when USD played Sam Houston State in the Second Round of the FCS Playoffs.
• QB Aidan Bouman moved into second all-time in USD career passing yards at Iowa State and holds a 22-10 record as the starting quarterback at South Dakota in his third full season as QB1.
• Last week, six Coyotes made their first career starts, including WR Larenzo Fenner who brought down his first career reception and touchdown grab for the first Coyote points of 2025.
• 14 Coyotes made their first appearances in a USD uniform.
• RB Charles Pierre Jr. was the team's leading rusher and receiver against the Cyclones, needing seven rushing scores to crack the USD top-10 list.

SERIES HISTORY

• Saturday marks the fifth meeting between South Dakota and Lamar.
• It's the third meeting between the two with USD being a Division I program.
• Lamar has won both previous meetings in Beaumont (1960, 2010).
• USD picked up their first – and lone – win of the series two seasons ago in Vermillion (W, 35-6), scoring the most points they've ever have against the Cardinals behind Bouman as QB1.