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Monday, December 1, 2008
Grambling has eyes on bigger prize
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For Grambling coach Rod Broadway, the Bayou Classic is big, but the SWAC championship is even bigger.
The Tigers accomplished the first half of that feat Saturday with a 29-14 victory over rival Southern at the Louisiana Superdome. The win clinched the SWAC Western Division title for Grambling and a spot in the conference championship game Dec. 13 against Jackson State.
“I know it’s big for our fans,” Broadway told the New Orleans Times Picayune after the game. “You don’t get a ring for this one. You get a ring if you win the next one.”
S.C. State goes down fighting: South Carolina State was one-and-done in the FCS playoffs, falling 37-21 at Appalachian State, but the Bulldogs didn’t go down without a fight.
South Carolina State led the three-time defending national champion 14-10 in the second quarter, but the Bulldogs couldn’t overcome the 433 passing yards by App State QB Armanti Edwards in the victory.
“The one thing I think you can see from having seen us in here today is that we belong,” S.C. State coach Buddy Pough told the Orangeburg (S.C.) Times and Democrat. “Now that we’ve done that, the next thing for us is to get in and actually get something done.”
In case you missed it …. Tuskegee had its 26-game winning streak ended Thursday in a 17-13 loss to rival Alabama State in the Turkey Day Classic in Montogmery.
The Golden Tigers hadn’t lost since October 2006 and was within a game of completing back-to-back unbeaten seasons. The win salvaged an otherwise down year for the Hornets (3-8), who won for the first time in the last four years of the longstanding Thanksgiving Day matchup.
Tuskegee, the champion of the SIAC and the top-ranked team in the Sheridan Broadcast Network black college poll, defeated Alabama A&M of the SWAC earlier this season, but lost Thursday to a team near the bottom of its division in the SWAC. Was the loss an indicator that Tuskegee of Division II can’t compete with the big boys of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) or was it a case of a rival stepping up to defeat another rival, regardless of classification?
Let me know what you think.
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