What did Southern do immediately after its season-opening 31-14 loss to North Carolina Central?

Coach Terrence Graves and his staff put the team through one of its hardest conditioning sessions two days later in practice.

Upping the level of intensity and focus is the only way the team knows how to bounce back from loss ahead of its first Southwestern Athletic Conference game against Mississippi Valley State at 4 p.m. Saturday at Rice–Totten Stadium in Itta Bena, Miss.

"I told them, 'To get the bitter taste out of their mouth, gotta win this week,'" Graves said. "I think they're hungry and chomping at the bit."

The Jaguars' next foe is an MVSU team that went 1-11 last year and was predicted to finish last in the East division in the 2025 SWAC preseason poll, receiving the fewest poin

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