The team was recognized as the 1975 black college football national co-champion and was ranked No.
2 by the United Press International in the final 1975 NCAA Division II football rankings.
Key players included sophomore quarterback Doug Williams, receivers Dwight Scales, Carlos Pennywell, and Sammie White, and running backs Fallon Bush and Cliff Martin.
[2] On December 12, the SWAC commissioner stripped Grambling of its share of the conference co-championship, and then almost to add insult to injury, the athletic directors voted unanimously to send Southern as the SWAC's representative to the Pelican Bowl (over the other remaining co-champ, Jackson State);[3] Grambling had just defeated Southern soundly only two weeks before in the first Bayou Classic to be played in the new Louisiana Superdome,[4] and now the Jaguars could participate in a bowl game being billed as the black national championship.
[5][6] Grambling-produced publications intended for the mass media make no reference to their brief hold on the 1975 co-championship.