Most rivaled team in the SWAC is...

BIRMINGHAM. Alabama – Does success raise hostility from the rest of your peers in college football?

Looking at the SWAC, Grambling State has been the top dog the last two seasons, winning back-to-back league championships, and has played for the last three as the Western Division champ. On the other side, Alcorn State has been the class of the East Division, playing for four straight conference titles, capturing the prize in 2014 and 2015 before GSU’s current run.



If you’re anything like me, you might’ve already assumed that because of their current stranglehold over the SWAC, winning 25 straight regular season conference games, that the reigning two-time champion G-Men would be the most rivaled program in the league. During SWAC Media Day, I polled many players at most member schools to see what conference foes get them the most excited to play.

It’s true that Grambling earned a lot of responses, but the most? Surprisingly no. Among the players I spoke with in Birmingham, the distinction of most rivaled team in the SWAC belongs to Southern University.

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