BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Can Pine Bluff buck history and repeat?Arkansas-Pine Bluff enters its pursuit of a second straight SWAC championship armed with 18 returning starters, including the quarterback (Ben Anderson) who made first-team all-conference last year. But history says the Golden Lions will have their hands full. Over the past 10 years, only Grambling has won multiple SWAC championships, and the league hasn’t seen a back-to-back winner since the Tigers won three straight titles from 2000-02. UAPB had not won a SWAC title since 1966, becoming the conference’s third champion in four years to break a dry spell of over four decades. Prairie View (2009) and Texas Southern (2010) had not won conference titles since the 1960s as well.
2) What will Houston bring to the title game?
The unofficial start of the SWAC football season still begins in Birmingham with Media Day, but the season’s official closing act no longer resides there. For the first time since the SWAC went to divisional play and introduced its conference title game in 1999, the East and West champs will not meet at Legion Field in Birmingham. Instead, the championship game is moving to ...
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