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Monday, November 24, 2008
S.C. State headed to FCS playoffs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
South Carolina State earned its first Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) playoff berth in 26 years by winning the MEAC title with an unbeaten conference record.
Next up for the Bulldogs — three-time defending national champion Appalachian State.
The Bulldogs will travel to Boone, N.C. Saturday for a first-round matchup against the Mountaineers, the same Mountaineer squad that won at Michigan in the 2007 season opener.
“They beat Michigan, they won three straight (titles) … who wouldn’t know App. State?”, S.C. State linebacker Marshall McFadden told the Orangeburg (S.C.) Times and Democrat. McFadden added, “They give us the opportunity to let them now know who we are … now they will know Will Ford, Raymond Harrison and Marshall McFadden.”
Strong finish not enough for FAMU: The Rattlers hoped their strong finish would earn an at-large berth to the FCS playoffs, but it wasn’t enough.
Despite a 9-3 record, including three lopsided wins to end the season, FAMU wasn’t one of the 16 teams selected for the playoffs.
“I told the fellows that this year we knocked on the door and next year we will knock it down,” FAMU coach Joe Taylor told the Tallahassee Democrat. “We had a really great season.”
Two sides to every story: Check out what each side had to say about FAMU’s 58-35 victory over rival Bethune-Cookman in the Florida Classic.
FAMU lineman Anthony Collins said the team dominated by playing “old-fashioned football” while Bethune-Cookman QB McKinson Souverain, who had four of his team’s six lost fumbles, summed up the loss by saying, “You can’t turn the ball over like that and expect to win against any team.”
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