Bayou Classic: Dawson Odums, Broderick Fobbs play up the Southern-Grambling rivalry

NEW ORLEANS -- The Bayou Classic rivalry is alive and well.

It’s not that the rivalry between Southern and Grambling ever faded, but both football programs did experience hard times in the recent past.

That was before Dawson Odums’ promotion to Jaguars head coach two games into the 2012 season and Broderick Fobbs’ hiring as Tigers coach in the wake of a disastrous 2013 season triggered a resurgence in both programs.

Bayou Classic
Who: Southern vs. Grambling
When: 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
TV: NBC Sports Network
Radio: KQXL-FM, 106.5

And for good measure, both coaches threw a little good-natured trash talking into the mix during a news conference Tuesday to promote Saturday’s 42nd edition of the Bayou Classic in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

In his remarks from the podium in the Bienville Room, Fobbs called what the Tigers have accomplished on and off the field this season “stellar.”

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