Turnovers kill Grambling as Alcorn captures SWAC title

HOUSTON, Texas — A brick wall. Grambling ran into it. Alcorn State's rushing attack ran through it.

In a nutshell, that's what Saturday's Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game came down to. And the results weren't pretty for the Tigers.

Grambling, which spent the last 12 months waiting for its shot to throw the Tigers' name in the SWAC supremacy conversation, saw their chance come and go during a miscued-filled three-plus hour effort.

Winners of nine straight games coming into the weekend, Grambling dropped a 49-21 loss to Alcorn State in the SWAC championship game to end the Tigers' dream season.

Alcorn State (9-3) put on a clinic in how to win back-to-back conference championships as the Braves produced a wire-to-wire win to avenge a 35-34 overtime loss to Grambling (9-3) back in October. The SWAC's top-ranked rushing offense piled up 613 yards of total offense and 410 rushing yards.

"We ran into a brick wall tonight," Grambling coach Broderick Fobbs said.



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