HBCU football

It’s no secret that historically Black colleges and universities have produced talent that has gone on to the next level despite the fact that most recruits now prefer to attend top-ranked football programs. Some of the NFL’s best Black players have hailed from a HBCU, with many going on to the Hall of Fame. SIGN […]

North Carolina A&T State clinched its second consecutive MEAC championship and trip to the Celebration bowl with a dominating performance in a 45-0 road victory against arch-rival North Carolina Central in the Aggie-Eagle Classic. It was the most lopsided victory for either team in the rivalry since North Carolina Central returned to the conference in […]

Howard kept its MEAC championship hopes alive – and scrambled the title chase – with a 31-23 home victory over first-place Florida A&M Saturday. Howard (4-4, 4-2 MEAC), Bethune-Cookman (5-5, 3-2 MEAC), North Carolina Central, and defending champion North Carolina A&T State (7-2, 4-1), all remain in the running to derail the front-running Rattlers (6-3, […]

Usually, a school will chose to play a team that’ll be easy to beat for their homecoming game. Tom remembers when his school would play a team that didn’t even have enough helmets. Central State did not do that, for their homecoming they played a good team, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. It […]

Prairie View A&M defeated Grambling State 22-16 in the 93rd State Fair Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Saturday night, signaling that a changing of the guard in the SWAC Western Division could be at hand. The Panthers (3-3, 2-0 SWAC) led from wire to wire en route to ending the two-time defending SWAC […]

North Carolina A&T, No.1 in the Black College polls and No. 9 in the FCS rankings, wrapped up the first unbeaten season in school history and its first outright MEAC championship since 2003 with a 24-10 C home victory against arch-rival North Carolina Central. “Being 11-0 is special,” said North Carolina A&T coach Rod Broadway. […]

Unbeaten Virginia State scored early and often Saturday en route to a 42-19 victory against Fayetteville State in the CIAA Championship Game in Salem, Va. The victory, the 14th in a row for Virginia State going back to last season, gave the Trojans (10-0) their 12th CIAA crown in school history and the second in […]

Defending MEAC champion North Carolina Central’s 18-game conference winning streak and run of 11 consecutive home victories came to a screeching halt Saturday as Norfolk State held on for a 28-21 road win. The loss was the first for the Eagles (5-2, 2-1 MEAC), No. 3 in Black College polls and No. 25 in the […]

Virginia State started fast and ended strong en route to a 47-35 Homecoming victory in the Trojans’ showdown with Bowie State for first place in the CIAA North Division race. Both teams were unbeaten entering the game and sported 3-0 conference records. Virginia State (6-0, 4-0 CIAA) scored on three of its first four possessions […]

Recently featured in an episode of HBO Real Sports and “money games” for a story about HBCU sports Coach Billy Joe is concerned about the wellbeing of Historically Black College and University football players. “We call these games blood games,” explained Coach Joe. The HBO episode talks about HBCU football teams playing Big Ten schools for money in exchange […]

  The first intercollegiate football contest between Black colleges took place on this day in 1892. Biddle College, now Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., and Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C., played against one another on Livingstone’s snowy front lawn and gave way to a bowl game that celebrates HBCU football’s excellance. According to historians […]

Grambling State is back on top of the Black College Football heap following a hard-fought 10-9 victory over North Carolina Central in the Celebration Bowl Saturday at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The win was the 11th in a row for Grambling and gives the G-Men their 14th Black College Football National Championship and the […]