BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The Southern Jaguars have made a habit this season of falling behind at home and engineering huge comeback wins.
Not this time.
When Alcorn State’s Arnold Walker scored on the first play of the Braves’ first overtime drive — moments after ASU’s Anthony Williams Jr. ended Southern’s OT possession by intercepting quarterback Dray Joseph — it assured the Braves a 44-38 victory and meant the Jaguars’ run of overtime comeback wins would not reach three.
Having fought back from a third-quarter 31-14 deficit to force overtime through a series of pivotal special teams and defensive plays, SU players and a raucous homecoming crowd appeared animated and confident at the end of regulation.
They had been here before. Dray Joseph’s 329 passing yards and three TDs and the three-catch, 119-yard, two-touchdown night by freshman receiver Randall Menard told them SU had one more comeback win on the way.
This time, though, it was Alcorn making the ...
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