The Florida A&M Rattlers (SWAC) announced their 2025 schedule including a swap of FBS opponents for the upcoming season. The Rattlers will open the season against Howard (MEAC) on Saturday, August 30, in the Orange Blossom Classic. That game replaces a previously scheduled contest against South Alabama (Sun Belt) on the same date, which would … Read more
Florida A&M (SWAC) is scheduled to host the Albany State Golden Rams in the 2025 season, according to ASU’s athletic site. The Rattlers will welcome the Golden Rams on Saturday, September 13. Albany State – located in Albany, Georgia – plays in the NCAA Division II Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). Albany State and FAMU … Read more
The Florida Gators (SEC) will swap out its FCS opponent for the 2025 season according to Swamp247. The Gators will welcome Long Island University (Northeast) to the Swamp on Saturday, August 30. The Florida A&M Rattlers (SWAC) were set to travel to Gainesville on Saturday, October 11, 2025, but that game will be pushed to … Read more
The game between Alabama A&M and Florida A&M has been rescheduled to Friday, November 29 due to the developing Hurricane Helene. The game was set to kick off on Saturday, September 28 at 6 PM Eastern Time in Tallahassee, Florida. Further details on the kickoff time for the rescheduled game will be provided later. Moving … 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
Florida A&M stayed in-house for its next head coach with the Rattlers naming James Colzie III as the successor to Willie Simmons. Simmons left FAMU on January 1 to take the running backs coaching position at Duke. Colzie joined FAMU in 2022, was promoted to associate head coach in 2023, and was named the interim … Read more
Florida A&M head coach Willie Simmons has decided to accept an assistant coaching position with Duke as the running backs coach. Simmons led the Rattlers to the 2023 SWAC Championship, a victory in the 2023 Celebration Bowl over Howard, and the 2023 HBCU National Championship. In five seasons with FAMU, Simmons went 45-13 overall, 32-5 … Read more
Welcome to the All-FCS version of our annual FCS versus FBS article. Each year, we list 10 games that we like featuring FCS teams taking on the FBS and for this year we decided to look at FCS versus FCS matchups as well. We will not be using any FCS-FBS matchups in this article. In … Read more
A new season is nearly upon us and with the merry-go-round that is college athletics, that also means plenty of changes at the FCS level. Let’s take a look at what’s new for 2021 in the FCS. If you want a simple summary, please click here to go to the table at the end of … Read more
The MEAC announced a few crucial details on Thursday alongside its spring football schedule. The MEAC originally released major details in August but have since clarified some points. On Thursday, the MEAC stipulated that the Northern Division teams – Delaware State, Howard, Morgan State, and Norfolk State – will play each other twice. Meanwhile, the … Read more