1994 Alcorn State Braves football team
| 1994 Alcorn State Braves football | |
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SWAC co-champion | |
I-AA First Round, L 20–63 vs. Youngstown State | |
| Conference | Southwestern Athletic Conference |
| 1994 record | 8–3–1 (6–1 SWAC) |
| Head coach | Cardell Jones |
| Home stadium | Spinks Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #7 Grambling State $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alcorn State $^ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jackson State | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alabama State | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mississippi Valley State | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Southern | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prairie View A&M | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 11 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1994 Alcorn State Braves were an NCAA Division I-AA football team who represented Alcorn State University. They participated in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Braves were led by head coach Cardell Jones and quarterback and Walter Payton Award winner Steve McNair. The Braves finished the regular season with a record of 8–2–1;[1] tying them for first place in the SWAC with Grambling State and earning a spot in the I-AA playoffs, where they fell in the first round to eventual national champion Youngstown State by a final score of 63–20. Grambling, as the conference's top seed, represented the SWAC in the Heritage Bowl.
Regular season
Quarterback Steve McNair seemed to break the record for most records broken in 1994 as well as also winning the Walter Payton Award (Most outstanding I-AA Offensive player) and becoming only the second and most recent I-AA Player to earn a trip to New York City for presentation of the Heisman Trophy, (The only other one being Jerry Rice) Which, in 1994 was awarded to Colorado's Rashaan Salaam.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 3 | at Grambling State | Eddie Robinson Stadium • Grambling, LA | L 62–56 | ||||||
| September 10 | at Chattanooga* | Chamberlain Field • Chattanooga, TN | W 54–28 | ||||||
| September 17 | Alabama State | Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS | W 39–7 | ||||||
| September 24 | at Sam Houston State* | Bowers Stadium • Huntsville, TX | L 48–23 | 16,148 | |||||
| October 8 | Texas Southern | Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS | W 28–21 | ||||||
| October 15 | at Prairie View A&M | Blackshear Field • Prairie View, TX | W 69–14 | ||||||
| October 22 | Southern | Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS | W 41–37 | ||||||
| October 29 | at Samford* | Seibert Stadium • Homewood, AL | T 45–45 | ||||||
| November 5 | at Mississippi Valley State | Delta Devil Field • Itta Bena, MS | W 49–24 | ||||||
| November 12 | Troy | Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS | W 47–44 | ||||||
| November 19 | Jackson State | Jack Spinks Stadium • Lorman, MS | W 52–34 | ||||||
| November 26 | at Youngstown State* | Stambaugh Stadium • Youngstown OH (NCAA Division I-AA Playoffs First Round) | L 63–20 | 16,455 | |||||
*Non-conference game.  | |||||||||