The SWAC has announced another set of games that will be broadcast on YouTube via its digital network for the upcoming 2024 season. 19 games in total will be shown on the SWAC Digital Network between Saturday, September 7 through Saturday, November 16. 11 of the 19 games will be conference matchups while the other … Read more
The Southwestern Athletic Conference will have more streaming exposure following HBCU Go’s schedule release for the 2024 season. The SWAC will have 14 games on the streaming service with at least one game each week from Saturday, September 7 through Saturday, November 23. 11 of the 12 teams will be shown with Prairie View A&M … Read more
Stephen F. Austin and Abilene Christian have announced a home-and-home series for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. This series replaces SFA’s home-and-home series against Montana State for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which was canceled by the Lumberjacks in May. SFA will host the 2024 contest on Saturday, November 23 while Abilene Christian will host … Read more
There were numerous date changes for 2024 FCS-FBS matchups in the last week and all the changes are summarized in a table at the bottom of this article. The first was Eastern Illinois changed its date against Illinois from Saturday, August 24 to Saturday, August 31. A second change was Indiana State’s matchup at Purdue … Read more
Cedric Thomas will be the next head coach of Alcorn State. Thomas was most recently the defensive coordinator for the Braves and was promoted following the separation of former head coach Fred McNair and Alcorn State. McNair went 48-33 overall with Alcorn State while winning two SWAC Championships and five division championships in 7 seasons. … Read more
Welcome back to the sixth edition of the FCS-FBS recap for the 2023 season with the previous editions located here. With the FCS versus FBS matchups slowing down drastically around this time of the season, we have combined the final three weeks (10, 11, and 12) into a single post. We will have additional recaps … Read more
After a report on Friday by Brett McMurphy that the SWAC would cancel fall sports and subsequent clarification from SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland, the SWAC presidents voted to postpone fall sports to the spring. The SWAC voted to play a 7 game football schedule spring 2021 with an 8 week training period beginning in January. … Read more
In a day and week of constant bad news, two Division II conferences delivered some more. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) jointly announced the suspension of fall sports for 2020. Both conferences are willing to consider a move of football to the spring of 2021 but will ultimately … Read more
The Northwestern State Demons and Alcorn State Braves have scheduled a two-game series according to FBSchedules. The first game will be hosted by Alcorn State on Saturday, September 11, 2021. The second game will see Northwestern State host the Braves on Saturday, August 30, 2025. The teams previously met in 1982 and 1983 with each … Read more
The Alcorn State Braves and Mississippi Rebels will meet on the football field for the first time in 2028. It will also be the first time Mississippi has played an HBCU opponent. The game was part of a larger release of future contests for the Rebels. “To play an HBCU from our state is something … Read more