MEMPHIS – The guarantee check was secured.
So, trailing 35-7 at halftime 1,100 miles from campus against an FBS opponent, it would have been all good and understood had Alcorn State shut it down. There was nothing else to prove last weekend in Las Cruces against a New Mexico State team trying to squeeze another rare win out of a 2-7 season.
The Braves had more meaningful battles ahead back home, on their own FCS level. They hold the inside track to an unprecedented fifth straight SWAC East division title they can clinch in the Nov.