The 2015 college football season came to a close last night, with Alabama’s 45 to 40 win over Clemson in the national championship game. It’s the fifth championship for former LSU Coach Nick Saban, putting him one behind Bear Bryant.

In the final AP rankings, LSU came in at number 16, while running back Leonard Fournette ended the year as the nation’s leading rushing as he averaged 163 yards a game. Fournette is the first running back from the SEC to be declared the rushing champion since 1949.

In other football news…UL Lafayette running back Elijah McGuire is coming back for his senior season. Former ULM football coach Todd Berry has been named the new executive director of the American Football Coaches Association. St. James Quarterback Lowell Narcisse has decommitted from Auburn. He would be a good get for LSU’s 2017 class.

UL Lafayette has been placed on two years probation and will lose three scholarships for next season and the following season as a result of a former assistant coach, who violated NCAA rules by arranging fradulent entrance exam scores for five prospects. The school has already vacated victories from 2011 season and will have to do the same if the players involved played for the team from the 2012-2014 seasons.

When Amite and Bogalusa play each other in football next season, fans will not be allowed in the stands. It’s part of the punishment handed down by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association as a result of a fight that broke out between the two teams towards the end of their playoff game last November. LHSAA assistant director Keith Alexander says the 2016 Amite-Bogalusa game will be considered a closed compeition…
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The two schools were each fined 25-hundred dollars and placed on administrative probation for all sports for the 2016-17 season.