Voice of experience says S.C. State Bulldogs can win it

There's two and a half decades between the last one and this one. There were close chances in some years. Others weren't so close. Today, the South Carolina State University Bulldogs will take their place among the nation's elite in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) playoffs. It's been 26 years since the Bulldogs were last in postseason play. It was 1982. Ronald Reagan was president. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album had just hit the store's shelves and a postage stamp was only 20 cents. It was also the senior year for Orangeburg businessman Sidney Fulton, the owner of Popeye's restaurant on Chestnut Street.

In 1982, Fulton was coming off his own championship season. While he was at State, Fulton and his teammates captured three MEAC football titles. Fulton himself was voted All-Conference three times and All-American once. He is in the SCSU Hall of Fame. Fulton knows what the Bulldogs face in three-time defending national champion Appalachian State. "They wouldn't be App State and they wouldn't have a talented team if they weren't excellent," Fulton said.

South Carolina State Bulldogs Coach Oliver "Buddy" Pough is a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award.

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