re: Have we ever played an official game against Southern U in fb?

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Hence the word "generally". The only ranked SWAC schools were FAMU, who got curbstomped by the only good team they played, and Jackson State, because of Deion. SWAC and MEAC teams are a step below the rest of the FCS. It is why they created the Celebration Bowl.

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Absolutely not why the Celebration bowl was created. That bowl was created as another money game because the SWAC and MEAC don't play in the FCS playoffs. They choose not to because they make more money on their rivalry games down the stretch through Thanksgiving weekend like the Bayou Classic, then they would for the entire FCS playoffs, which would cut their seasons before they could get those games in. The Celebration Bowl gives those conferences another game, on nationally televised TV unlike the FCS early rounds, that pay out well.

Honestly, both Grambling and Alcorn State in the SWAC over the last 10 years have had teams that could have gone deep in the FCS playoffs, especially Alcorn over that stretch where they were destroying everyone in the SWAC mid 2010s.