Juco spotlight: Mississippi Gulf Coast 

Playoff spots are an accomplishment in their own right, but the expectations are a bit higher than that at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. This is a program that has just reached the playoffs for the sixth straight season, claimed six South Division championships in the last eight years and grabbed a share of the 2007 national championship, after all.

So it was a welcome sight to see the Bulldogs trounce East Central Community College, 41-0, last week and recapture the postseason, and it's certainly encouraging that Gulf Coast has won five straight with all of those coming by 33 points or more. But it's a young squad Bulldogs coach Steve Campbell is taking into the playoffs this fall.

"We are a young football team -- we've got about 39 freshmen and 15 sophomores," Campbell said. "This is the youngest football team we've had here since my first year here nine years ago."

To continue reading this article you must be an Insider