NEW ORLEANS -- Southern players swarmed the Mercedes-Benz Superdome field, kissed the Bayou Classic trophy, then raised a sign.
“See you in Houston!” it read, site of next Saturday’s Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship Game.
The Jaguars were already on their way. A side trip to the Bayou Classic to send archrival Grambling back to North Louisiana with a 40-17 smackdown was just a delightful diversion.
The win was also confirmation for Southern — confirmation of how far the Jaguars have come since the 2012 season began in such disarray and how much disparity there currently is between these two programs.
It would have been almost impossible to predict Southern would be playing for a SWAC championship in September 2012. The school jettisoned coach Stump Mitchell, a man with deep NFL roots who clearly knew football but just as clearly couldn’t figure out how to communicate that knowledge to his players.
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