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Opinion: PWIs don’t want to hire HBCU football coaches unless they’ve been validated

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Now that Prairie View A&M’s head coach, Tremaine Jackson, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the vacant head coaching job at UAB, some may be celebrating the news as progress. On the surface, it feels like validation, a sign that the work being done inside HBCU football is finally being noticed beyond its […]

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5 Games to Watch in Week 8 of the HBCU football season

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Week 8 of the 2025 HBCU football season marks the final weekend before we officially begin the race to the Celebration as the MEAC is set to begin conference play next weekend. Though that means all but one MEAC team will be in action this weekend, looking to avenge a loss on their homecoming last

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HBCU Chris-tal ball Picks: A SWAC West showdown highlights Week Eight

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Week Eight of HBCU football season features nearly an entire conference off but others have plenty of action that counts in the standings to enjoy. And Week Seven’s results were fun…too bad most of them weren’t featured in your friendly prognosticator’s predictions. Note to self: be sure you check which week of the CIAA and

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HBCU football hot-seat watch: Which coach is cool? Who’s on fire?

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The 2025 HBCU Football season has reached the halfway point. While plenty of schools are still in contention for conference championships and postseason invites, there are a few schools whose head coaches might be sweating a bit waiting for that end-of-the-season meeting. Which coaches are on the hot seat? There aren’t that many, but the

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HBCU Chris-tal ball Picks: Will Week Seven be Heaven…or the other place for HBCU football teams?

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HBCU Football enters the second half of the season this weekend. SWAC/CIAA/SIAC play promises to be exciting while the MEAC is finally winding down their never-ending non-conference schedule. Week Seven will be a fun one to predict, but before your friendly neighborhood HBCU football prognosticator drops this week’s science, let’s look back at Week Six’s

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HBCU receives school record $5 million gift during homecoming week

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One HBCU has an extra reason to celebrate its homecoming this week. Arkansas-Pine Bluff was the recipient of a school-record $5 million donation from the Windgate Foundation, slated for an addition to the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center. The addition will include new classrooms, studio space and gallery areas. UAPB Chancellor Anthony Graham says the gift

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Another HBCU band bows out of ESPN competition

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Weeks after one HBCU band asked to be removed from the ESPN Red Lobster Band of the Year rankings, another band’s director expressed the same position. Donovan V. Wells, director of Bethune-Cookman’s Marching Wildcats, shared a post on Facebook Tuesday, accusing ESPN of “forcing” institutions into the contest. “Despite my repeated requests to exclude the

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The Ultimate HBCU Sports Division I Football Rankings (Week Six)

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Week Five went mostly by the letter in HBCU Division I Football, but one convincing win calls for a change at the top of the Ultimate HBCU Sports Division I poll. After that, not much more movement, but Week Six could bring a changing of the guard. Before we get there, here’s our rankings after

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Alabama State overcomes early deficit, defeats Bethune-Cookman to set up SWAC East showdown with Jackson State

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The Alabama State football team has the matchup they want, even if they had to watch Bethune-Cookman take a very early lead first. The Hornets overcame a long bomb on the game’s first play to roll past the Wildcats 52-35, improving to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in SWAC East play. Here are the takeaways from

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HBCU Chris-tal ball picks: Week Six promises to be full of scoring, but will it be full of surprises?

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HBCU Football has reached that time of year where surprises happen, contenders emerge and disappointments begin to mount and Week Five had a little bit of all of the above. That led to another tough, but winning weekend for your friendly neighborhood HBCU Football prognosticator, but Week Six is another chance to get it right.

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