They haven’t clashed since the 2021 Celebration Bowl in the very same city that hosted them that time, Jackson State and South Carolina State will get together again in this year’s MEAC/SWAC Challenge game on Saturday night. The Tigers are essentially an entirely different team now with a revamped roster and new head coach since Deion Sanders left in a mass exodus to Colorado last winter. The transfer portal taketh and giveth, however, as Jackson State has brought in a whopping 29 transfers.
The Bulldogs, meanwhile, are out to prove that their down year in 2022 was not the norm but merely a fluke.