Football: Kentucky State faces improved Fort Valley in SIAC title game

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Kentucky State’s football team has already beaten Fort Valley State, its opponent Saturday in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game, once this season.

But KSU coach John L. Smith said his squad won’t be seeing the same team when they square off at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Ala.

Kickoff is 7 p.m. (EST).

“They’re a different football team than what they were earlier in the year,” Smith said about the Wildcats, who captured the SIAC East Division last week with a 21-17 win over Albany State.

KSU, winner of the West Division, and Fort Valley State are both 4-6 overall and 4-3 in the conference.

“They’ve changed their offense to where the player who was their Wildcat quarterback is
the guy doing it all now,” Smith said. “It’s made them a different offensive team.

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