Baton Rouge, LA - Through a long winter, offseason workouts and spring practice, through summer conditioning and preseason camp, Levi Jackson couldn’t get one memory out of his head. Jackson, now a junior free safety at Southern, kept recalling the team’s heartbreaking 49-45 loss at Jackson State.
Everyone remembers how the Jaguars allowed JSU to score the game-winning touchdown with 2 seconds left. That was bad enough. But Jackson kept going back to another play. It came in the first half, when JSU went for broke on fourth-and-10, and quarterback Casey Therriault fired a 22-yard touchdown pass to wideout Marcellos Wilder.
If Jackson had stopped that play, he said, Southern could have saved itself from that last-minute meltdown.
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