​SAN MARCOS, TX – OCTOBER 28: A practice ball displays the Texas State Bobcats logo during game featuring the James Madison Dikes and the Texas State Bobcats on October 28, 2025 at UFCU Stadium in San Marcos, TX. (Photo by John Rivera/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Get to Know Your Foe series concludes with the latest addition to the Pac-12, the Texas State Bobcats.Texas State University is located in San Marcos, Texas, and only fairly recently began playing football at the FBS level. Originally founded in 1899 as Southwest Texas State Normal School, the school offers over 200 degrees and was the alma mater for former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. The school didn’t change its name to Texas State University until pretty recently. In 2003, the school became Texas State University-San Marcos with the expectation that other cities in the Texas State University system would also add their city names on the end. That didn’t end up happening, and 10 years later, the school dropped the San Marcos name and became Texas State University. Coincidentally, it also happened to be around the time Texas State became an FBS program in football. But before the FBS was even a thing, the Bobcats were playing football dating all the way back to 1904. The school got their first taste of success in 1929, when they won the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA) conference championship. The Bobcats operated as a College Division and Division II program for a majority of their history, spending most of it in the Lone Star Conference. That conference was formed in 1931 by Texas State, North Texas, Sam Houston State, East Texas A&M and Stephen F. Austin. Houston joined the conference briefly from 1945 to 1949.The Bobcats won their first Lone Star conference title in 1948 under the direction of George Vest. They returned to the top of the conference in 1954 and 1955 under R.W. Parker. The team’s first undefeated season in the conference came in 1963 as Milton Jowers led the Bobcats to a perfect 10-0 record, going 6-0 in conference. The perfect season earned them the #9 spot in the final rankings. After 1963, the Lone Star conference became a part of the NAIA.Following the 1980 season, the Bobcats and three other members of the Lone Star Conference moved up to NCAA Division II. This move ended up proving to be a launching pad for new coach Jim Wacker and the Bobcat program. In their final season at the NAIA level in 1980 and Wacker’s second season in charge, the Bobcats went 8-3 and won the Lone Star Conference. Now in Division II, the Bobcats took the entire division by storm, going 10-1 in the regular season, with the lone loss coming at the end of the year to Texas A&I 21-14. Despite the loss, the Bobcats still finished one game better than Texas A&I in the conference standings to secure another Lone Star championship. This time, however, their season didn’t just end in the regular season. The Bo