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The 2024 HBCU football season has come to an end, and what a season it was from start to finish. There isn’t much left to say or do except reveal the final HBCU Sports’ Ultimate Division I poll, so here is how the Top 10 shakes out. 1. Jackson State (12-2) It was indeed the […]
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On third-and-goal from just inside the two-yard line, Jackson State running back Irv Mulligan took the handoff from quarterback Jacobian Morgan and plowed his 205-pound body into a helpless South Carolina State defender who attempted a goalline tackle. But the bruising back — a sixth-year senior — pushed through for his second touchdown of his
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Heading into the 2024 season, there was uncertainty about how South Carolina State football would look without longtime coach Buddy Pough after a two-decade stint in Orangeburg. While there was much hope and great anticipation that Chennis Berry, who was hired to replace the retired Pough, could eventually replicate the success he cultivated at Division
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When Jackson State plays South Carolina State in the Cricket Celebration Bowl on Saturday in Atlanta, the SWAC champions will be a favorite by the slimmest of margins. This week, Jackson State opens as a 1-point favorite over the Bulldogs, according to BET ESPN. Jackson State (11-2) has won by an average of 20.7 points
The last time the South Carolina State football team took the field was Nov. 23, when they wrapped up their MEAC schedule with a 53-21 win over Norfolk State. The MEAC champs will face a Jackson State team that beat Southern 41-13 in the SWAC championship game just this past weekend. A change in the
For Jackson State coach T.C. Taylor, the Celebration Bowl is becoming old hat. When the Tigers arrive in Atlanta this week to prepare for Saturday’s game against MEAC champion South Carolina State after clinching the SWAC title for the third time in the last four seasons, it will mark Taylor’s fourth overall appearance in the
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The Celebration Bowl is set, with Jackson State and South Carolina State—a rematch of the de facto 2021 HBCU national championship game—scheduled to meet again in Atlanta. Will Jackson State avenge its loss and win its first Black National Championship since 1996? Or will South Carolina State, with a first-year head coach — take its
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Eddie George led a list of HBCU coaches who earned votes for the Eddie Robinson Award, given annually to the top NCAA Football Championship Subdivision coach. George finished second overall to Montana State’s Brent Vigen, earning six first-place votes and 115 points overall. In his fourth season leading Tennessee State, George guided the team to
There were a handful of Division I HBCU Football games left this past weekend, so HBCU Sports has time for one more update of our Ultimate D-1 football poll. We saw three teams finish up 2024 and one more get ready for the biggest game of their season with a classic win. Here’s how it
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The final full weekend of D-1 HBCU football saw conference champions finish strong and a few teams setting up well for 2025. As we turn to the SWAC title game, the Celebration Bowl and hopefully the FCS playoffs, here’s how the best of the best rank in HBCU Sports’ Ultimate Division I poll. 1. Jackson
