The Jackson State football team has had Saturday, Nov. 16, circled for a long time, and with that day finally here, a SWAC Eastern Division championship is close at hand.
The Tigers, 4-0 in SWAC East play, wrap up their division schedule at preseason favorite Alabama State this weekend, and according to head coach T.C. Taylor, his guys have been waiting for it all season long.
“They’re locked and loaded. They were talking about it after the game. This is a game we’ve had marked all year on our calendar,” Taylor said during his weekly press conference. “The motivation of [ASU] being picked to win the SWAC and the SWAC East, so a lot of players have had this tabbed. We’ve been taking it one game at a time, but I know a lot of guys have been looking down the road for this one.”…