LORMAN, Mississippi -- It’s your turn, Alcorn State.
The Braves won their first conference championship in 20 years when they beat Southern 38-24 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game last December.
That outcome denied the Jaguars a second consecutive SWAC championship, which would have been a rare accomplishment. No SWAC champion has repeated since Grambling won the most recent of three consecutive titles in 2002.
The past six SWAC championships have been won by six different programs. Alcorn and Southern were preceded by Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2012), Grambling (2011), Texas Southern (2010) and Prairie View (2009). Grambling won in 2008.
So Alcorn will try to repeat, and the Braves were picked first in the East Division in the conference’s preseason poll.
“This league, I say it every year: There’s a lot of parity,” Braves coach Jay Hopson said. “I don’t just say that. People that know me know I speak what I feel. Two years ago, we were ranked last. I think the preseason rankings, they don’t really mean anything. You take it with a grain of salt. It’s a competitive league.”
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