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Saturday’s Bayou Classic in the Caesars Superdome sets up as a clash between a Grambling State team trying to cap a strong season and a Southern University squad desperate to turn one game into a year-long antidote. The SWAC title race and Celebration Bowl may be out of reach for both. Still, the stakes in […]
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The start of the FCS playoffs marks the first time since 2022 that no HBCU team will be in the field. Alabama State, which probably had the best chance to make the tournament after it finished 10-2, was not included. However, the Hornets Turkey Day Classic game versus Tuskegee would have presented a conflict. Alabama
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SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland says the conference-run digital streaming network has already paid both financial and viewership dividends in its infancy. Speaking on Friday at the Southern University Board of Supervisors meeting on the eve of the annual Bayou Classic football game, McClelland indicated that SWAC TV, which launched in July, will be a significant
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Alabama State head coach Eddie Robinson Jr. isn’t running from the disappointment of missing out on the 2025 SWAC East title. The Hornets, if they were to beat Tuskegee today in the Turkey Day Classic, would finish the regular season with 10 wins — the most for the program since the SWAC championship team in
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Southern University will become the latest HBCU to gamble on a former NFL player as a head coach. According to a report by Kevin Batiste Jr. of Baton Rouge TV station WAFB, the Jaguars will announce Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk as the program’s next football coach Monday. Source: The deal is done.
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DeSean Jackson did in his first year what three coaches, four athletic directors, two university presidents and three United States presidents couldn’t do over 12 years; he made the Delaware State football team winners. While he may have been snubbed for the MEAC Coach of the Year award, he is a finalist for the Eddie
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The 2025 SWAC football season was defined by record-breaking offenses, dominant defenses, and a coaching resurgence that reshaped the league’s pecking order. Dynamic quarterbacks powered high-scoring attacks, while disruptive defenders authored game-changing plays each week. Special teams units electrified stadiums with precise kicking, booming punts, and breathtaking returns. Steely leadership on the sidelines sparked winning
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Texas Southern head football coach Cris Dishman voiced strong frustration this week over what he described as a growing issue of unqualified “street agents” attempting to lure his players away. Dishman said the problem has worsened as individuals posing as agents approach young players with false promises and unethical financial demands. “I call them street
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Two first-year HBCU football head coaches who have turned around their programs are in the running for an award named for a Black College legend. Prairie View A&M’s Tremaine Jackson and Delaware State’s DeSean Jackson have been named finalists for the Eddie Robinson FCS Coach of the Year Award, StatsPerform announced Monday. Tremaine Jackson came
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It doesn’t appear that Andrew Body will play in the Turkey Day for Alabama State against in-state rival Tuskegee. Hornets head coach Eddie Robinson Jr. all but confirmed it on Monday that the redshirt junior will not suit up for the season finale on Thursday. “Body’s coming along and I think the optimism was the
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