This is the game that determines everything. The SWAC Western Division champion, the SWAC championship game, and questions about how the conference handles tiebreaker situations. It’s the Bayou Classic, perhaps the most famous black college football classic in the country. And we’ve got it covered right here with the live blog.
South Carolina State plays in the FCS, will compete against the second-ranked team in the nation tomorrow in the playoffs, and was the wire-to-wire champion in the MEAC this year. Tuskegee has one loss in the last two years, two conference championships, and is the reigning Black College Football national champion. So who deserves the [...]
In a way, its not hard to believe that the Golden Tigers of Tuskegee University lost the Turkey Day Classic to the hapless Alabama State Hornets. ASU, after all, is an FCS program. But TU was perfect coming into the game, and had been for a very long time. This season, this streak, this achievement, [...]
Let’s face it, it’s highly probable that Tuskegee will put the perfect finishing touch on another perfect season with a righteous beating of Alabama State in the upcoming Turkey Day Classic. We can all appreciate Tuskegee’s dominance of the SIAC and their historic run in contemporary black college football, but there’s a dirty little secret [...]
You could classify the 2008 MEAC football season as one of many surprises. It kicked off with Joe Taylor’s defection down south, and the subsequent renaissance of FAMU Rattler football. It continued with North Carolina A&T winning a few games, and the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats making an unexpected run for the conference crown.
The Langston Lions, a team that was undeservedly looked over in this space, has advanced to the second round of the NAIA Football Championship Series with a 20-14 victory over Mid-America Nazarene.
You never really know what the politics are in college sports, and we all know that there are plenty of them. But whatever politics were in play at Stillman to result in Greg Thompson’s firing, they just couldn’t have been that bad. Thompson has been too good and Stillman just doesn’t have enough juice to [...]
Once you get over the “oh crap” reaction to South Carolina State drawing Appalachian State in the opening round of the FCS Playoffs this Saturday, you can begin focusing on the ways the Bulldogs can have a strong performance, and even upset the upset kings. Here’s five ways the Bulldogs can make it happen.
A lot of people left Thursday’s game between Grambling State and Texas Southern very unhappy. Not just becasue the Tigers beat the brakes off of TSU, but because Texas Southern won the halftime showdown by default. As in, Grambling’s band didn’t show up.
Time to jump off the Florida Classic Live Blog.
