Three FCS teams have added future games against the FBS, starting with Southeast Missouri State (OVC-Big South). The Redhawks will play at the Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12) in week one of the 2027 season, although a date hasn’t been set according to FBSchedules. Kansas previously defeated SEMO in 2014 and 2017 in the only previous…
The 2024 SWAC Football Championship game is all set as the West Division champions Southern will play at East Division champions Jackson State on Saturday, December 7 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. The game will kickoff at 2 PM Eastern Time and be broadcast on ESPN2. It will be the second meeting in 2024 for…
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…
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…
The Southwestern Athletic Conference has extended Commissioner Charles McClelland’s contract through the 2031-32 academic year. McClelland took over in 2018 and oversaw the expansion of the SWAC membership with the additions of Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M in 2021. FAMU captured the SWAC Championship and Celebration Bowl in 2023 as the program went 12-1 for one…
The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced its ESPN lineup for the 2024 season. The SWAC will have 34 games shown on ESPN networks including a Week 0 game involving Florida A&M and Norfolk State on ABC. On September 1, ESPN will broadcast North Carolina Central versus Alabama State. The SWAC schedule ends with three nationally…
The dust has barely settled on FCS conferences postponing their conference schedules to spring but we have already seen the first step towards a spring season. And it is a good thing that a conference is willing to get the ball rolling on a spring schedule. The SWAC became the first FCS conference to reveal…
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….
The exodus from the MEAC continues. Bethune-Cookman will leave the MEAC and join the SWAC according to Collegiate Consulting. The SWAC and Bethune-Cookman confirmed the news on Thursday evening in separate press releases. Bethune-Cookman will join the SWAC starting with the 2021-22 season alongside Florida A&M. The news is hardly a surprise given the report…
The Florida A&M Rattlers are leaving the MEAC for the SWAC. The Board of Trustees at Florida A&M officially voted to leave on Thursday after the pending move was reported earlier this week. It was a unanimous decision by the Board of Trustees. The SWAC confirmed the news on Thursday evening stating that Florida A&M…
