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Homecoming was the continuing theme for HBCU band halftime shows during Week 8 of the HBCU football season. Howard University, North Carolina A&T, Grambling State, Southern University, and Johnson C. Smith were among the notable school homecoming celebrations for Week 8. However, our top five HBCU band performances feature bands from Alcorn State, Jackson State, […]
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Some 48 hours after he watched his team suffer an embarrassing homecoming loss, North Carolina A&T head coach defended his job. A reporter asked Brown on Monday whether he is the right man for the job amid a tenure that has seen the Aggies go 2-16 since he was named head coach. “Absolutely,” said Brown
It was going to be the greatest story of North Carolina A&T’s 2024 season so far. Or so it looked for about 15 minutes. But Hampton interfered, spoiling the football part of the “Greatest Homecoming on Earth” on an otherwise glorious mid-October Saturday afternoon. The 59-17 result stung for the Aggies, whose occasional highlights get
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After a shaky start in which Hampton fell behind 14-0 in the game’s opening minutes, the Pirates kept their composure and battled back to post a 59-17, spoiling North Carolina A&T’s Homecoming celebration. The Pirates turned the ball over twice in the first minutes, and the opportunistic Aggies (1-6, 0-3) took full advantage. Hampton’s first
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The Week 5 HBCU football contest between North Carolina A&T and South Carolina State was reminiscent of the previous MEAC showdowns we used to witness before the conference’s mass exodus that began a few years ago. South Carolina State won the football contest 45-25 after trailing the Aggies by 7 points early in the 2nd
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The Aggie-Eagle Classic featuring North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central was the event headliner entering Week 4 of the HBCU football season. While the Eagles’ 66-24 beatdown over the Aggies wasn’t much of a football contest, two notable performances of the evening featured the bands. And with the recent passing of R&B superstar Frankie
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The North Carolina Central University football team got back into the win column in an emphatic way Saturday evening at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium, upending rival North Carolina A&T 66-24 in the Aggie-Eagle Classic. The Eagles (2-2) snapped a two-game skid and picked up their first home win of 2024. The Aggies struck on the opening kickoff
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The two marquee HBCU football games on the Week 3 slate were the annual BoomBox Classic, featuring Jackson State and Southern, and the traditional Southern Heritage Classic, featuring Tennessee State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff. However, given the number of other stellar performances on tap from other HBCU bands around the country, the band performances from the
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It’s been six years since North Carolina A&T has visited O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium on the campus of North Carolina Central. That long spell ends Saturday night when the Aggies head to Durham to face an Eagles team coming off of an inspired performance at North Carolina the previous week. NCCU head coach Trei Oliver says he
Florida A&M’s 2-0 start earned them a measure of respect in Tuesday’s American Football Coaches Association FCS poll. The Rattlers, who overcame an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat South Carolina State 22-18 Saturday night, were ranked 24th in the AFCA’s Week 1 poll after being ranked 25th in the preseason poll. Week 1 @WeAreAFCA Rankings #FCS pic.twitter.com/AL1d7nCtmj —
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