Southern University football picked to finish 2nd in SWAC West

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- If the preseason SWAC football poll is any indication, the Bayou Classic will again settle who wins the SWAC West. Despite placing no players on the All-SWAC preseason first team, Grambling is the pick to win the West division of the league in a vote of league coaches and sports information directors.

Southern University, the two-time defending West champ, was selected second. The Jaguars defeated Grambling, 52-45, to claim the West title in 2014 in last year's Bayou Classic at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Southern lost to Alcorn State, 38-24, in the SWAC Championship the following week.

Alcorn State was picked to win the SWAC East division.

The Jaguars finished 2014 9-4 overall, 8-1 in the SWAC. Southern won seven straight games before falling to Alcorn State in the title contest.

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