In two days, Southern senior quarterback Bryant Lee will begin a quest to settle two personal scores, and to take one step closer to a SWAC football championship.
His first step begins in Thursday night’s nationally-televised tussle with Prairie View A&M. In two games against the Panthers, Lee has completed 49-of-84 passes for 482 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. He’s 1-1 in those games, and nothing would be better than to go out with a winning record against a PVAMU team which has redefined itself as a conference powerhouse in recent years.
And for as much fun as it will be to watch the quarterback duel between he and PVAMU’s K.J. Black, a far more interesting story line is Lee’s last chance at cementing his status as a SWAC quarterbacking legend.
Lee is ninth in the nation among active players in career touchdown passes (60), 12th in passing yardage (6,955) and 13th in passing efficiency (142.03). When it comes to being a passer in the pass happy SWAC, few have done it better over four years than Southern’s Bryant Lee has done it.
And when he and the Jaguars meet up with Prairie View this Thursday, it will carry the same hype that last weekend’s FAMU-SCSU match-up created. The victor will improve its chances of winning the Western division, and the loser will be forced to keep ground the rest of the way to make it another tight race for a place in the SWAC championship game. Lee has a solid chance to go out as a champion, and the road to glory begins at home against the Panthers.
Prairie View is but one opponent, but it is the first of two hurdles that Bryant Lee must clear to forge his own storybook ending to a marvelous collegiate career.
The second? Some unfinished business in the Superdome.
