Plenty of history in playoffs, Bayou showdown

NORFOLK, Virginia  -- Two teams making historic playoff runs and a showdown in perhaps the most celebrated game in black college football are the remaining story lines as the 2014 season marches on. Virginia State, who won its first CIAA championship since 1996 two weeks ago in an upset of two-time recent champion Winston-Salem State and is alive in the NCAA Div. II playoffs, and Morgan State, who Saturday captured a piece of the MEAC title for the first time in 35 yards and grabbed its first FCS playoff berth in history, will share the stage this week with Southern and Grambling State, two SWAC dynamos whose battle this week determines who plays in the Dec. 6 league championship game.

Virginia State
The Trojans (10-2), under second-year CIAA Coach of the Year, Latrell Scott, followed up their CIAA title game win with their first-ever Div. II playoff win as they downed LIU Post, 28-17 Saturday in a first round Super Region I home game (see related story). VSU, seeded third in the region, now travels to face No. 2 Bloomsburg (10-1) Saturday (12 noon) in a second round region semifinal. Bloomsburg was undefeated at 10-0, the region's top team and ranked fifth in the nation before losing its last game, a 28-26 decision to Slippery Rock in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship Game. The Huskies received a bye in the first round by virtue of its No. 2 seeding.

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