For the fourth time in the 13-year history of the SWAC football championship game, Alabama A&M and Grambling will meet to decide the league's champion on the gridiron.
The 2011 Farmers Insurance SWAC Championship Game presented by Toyota will take place Saturday, December 10 at Birmingham's Legion Field. Kickoff is set for 12:00 p.m.
Grambling (7-4, 6-3 SWAC) enters the championship on a six-game winning streak that gave the Tigers a one-game advantage over Prairie View and Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the Western Division race.
GSU defeated its arch rival Southern in the Bayou Classic, 36-12 to clinch its seventh all-time berth into the championship game. Grambling's last appearance was in 2008, when the Tigers defeated Jackson State to claim the school's fifth victory all-time in the SWAC championship game. GSU is 5-1 all-time in the contest.
Alabama A&M (8-3, 7-2 SWAC) is the champion of the Eastern Division for the fifth time in school history. The Bulldogs earned the division berth via a three-way tie-breaker with Alabama State and Jackson State. A&M rattled off seven straight wins during the season and ended up with the tie-breaker advantage after a 20-19 win over Alabama State in the Magic City Classic.
The Bulldogs also won at Grambling for the first time in school history, 20-14, in the fourth week of the season. Alabama A&M last appeared in the title game in 2009, losing to Prairie View A&M. The Bulldogs won their only title in 2006 over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Prior to those two appearances, A&M has played Grambling three other times (2000, 2002, and 2005) with the Tigers winning all three championship game matchups.
This year's contest will be televised live on ESPNU.
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SCG I (1999) - Southern 31, Jackson State 30
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SCG II (2000) - Grambling 14, Alabama A&M 6
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SCG III (2001) - Grambling 38, Alabama State 31
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SCG IV (2002) - Grambling 31, Alabama A&M 19
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SCG V (2003) - Southern 20, Alabama State 9
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SCG VI (2004) - Alabama State 40, Southern 35
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SCG VII (2005) - Grambling 45, Alabama A&M 6
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SCG VIII (2006) - Alabama A&M 22, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 13
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SCG IX (2007) - Jackson State 42, Grambling 31
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SCG X (2008) - Grambling 41, Jackson State 9
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SCG XI (2009) - Prairie View A&M 30, Alabama A&M 24
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SCG XII (2010) - Texas Southern 11, Alabama State 6
