SSU faces NCCU for Homecoming

SAVANNAH, Georgia  -- Savannah State University's football Homecoming game against North Carolina Central might be the Tigers' most important game this season, according to SSU first-year head coach Earnest Wilson III

SSU (1-7 overall, 0-4 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) will play North Carolina Central University (3-4, 1-2 MEAC) at 2 p.m. Saturday at T.A. Wright Stadium. The game will be radio-broadcast on WHCJ 90.3 FM.

"I'm telling the players that this is all about them," Wilson said. "We estimate 20,000 to 30,000 people coming to town just for Homecoming. We're telling our players this is for them. They're coming to honor you. They're coming to be a part of something.

"And in the end, after all the fun and festivities, the final thing is they want to be able to go back Monday morning to their office and tell about how their hometown team and their university team won. And that's what they're really looking to do. And we've got to honor that and go out there and play for them."

SSU will attempt to snap a five-game losing streak. The Tigers are coming off a 48-21 loss to Bethune-Cookman University last Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla.

NCCU will enter with a two-game losing streak. Last Saturday, Morgan State spoiled the Eagles' Homecoming with a 34-22 victory at O'Kelley-Riddick Stadium in Durham, N.C. NCCU lost, 44-3, to South Carolina State on Oct. 10 in Durham, N.C.

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