South Alabama joins FBS club in football-mad state

... been to eight NCAA tournaments and the baseball team 25. But Erdmann knows football tops the pecking order of college sports in the state. "It's a piece of our geography and our culture here in the Deep South that people hold onto very dearly," ...

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