 The teams wear the university colors of red and blue except for the women's basketball team that wears their signature Columbia blue.Louisiana Tech's football team played its first season in 1901 and has competed at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level from 1975 to 1981 and 1989 to present.In its 115 years of existence, Tech's football program has won three National Championships (1972-National Football Foundation Co-National Champions, 1973-Division II National Champions, 1974-UPI College Division National Champions), played in 11 major college bowl games (7–3–1 overall record), and earned 25 conference titles.