Southern, Valley look to bounce back

GAME TIME: 7:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CT
OURTESY MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE ATHLETICS

ITTA BENA, Mississippi -- Southern and Mississippi Valley State expect their second game of the season to tell them a lot more about themselves than their first one did.

The Jaguars and the Delta Devils meet in their Southwestern Athletic Conference opener at Rice-Totten Stadium at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, just five days after they both were whipped by Football Bowl Subdivision teams in their respective season openers.

Southern lost at Louisiana Tech 62-15 and Valley lost at New Mexico (66-0).

“We got exposed in some areas,” Jaguars coach Dawson Odums said, “but you’d rather have that happen in a nonconference football game.”

Now comes the real deal.

“Everybody is going after the same pie,” Southern linebacker Demetrius Carter said. “We look at it as a playoff game. We need to win this game in order to be eligible for the playoffs. It’s a very important game to win.”

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