It’s hard to top a perfect football season, but that is the task that North Carolina A&T will try to pull off in 2018. On Tuesday the team announced its football schedule for the upcoming season is it tries to repeat as MEAC and HBCU champs.
A&T will start the season with two tough road contests, playing FCS power Jacksonville State and in-state FBS foe East Carolina. JSU went 10-2 last season and will host A&T in Montgomery, AL in the FCS Kickoff on August 25. East Carolina is coming off a 3-9 season and A&T has beaten FBS foes in each of the past two seasons (Kent State in 2016 and Charlotte in 2017).
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“We are starting out with Jacksonville State and ECU so that says a lot about where we see ourselves as a program because those are two really tough games,” new A&T coach Sam Washington said. “We are not afraid. We’re going to do the things we need to do to be successful and then see what the outcome is.”
A&T will return home and finish its non-conference schedule on Sept. 8 against Gardner-Webb, an FCS team it handled 45-3 in 2018.
The conference season will kick off in Aggie Stadium on Sept. 22 when Morgan State comes to town, followed by traditional rival South Carolina State the next week. A&T will hit the road the following week to take on Delaware State, a team it has beaten four times in a row by nearly 30 points per game.
A&T will play its lone home game of the month on Oct. 13 when it takes on Florida A&M. Its final home game will come Nov. 3 against Norfolk State. That will serve as the Homecoming Game and Senior Day in Greensboro.
Per usual, A&T will finish the season on the road at North Carolina Central as the teams meet up for the 90th time in their storied history on Nov. 17. A&T broke a three-game losing streak last fall.
| Sat, Aug 25 | Jacksonville State | at Montgomery, Ala. | TBA | ESPN | |||
| Sat, Sep 01 | East Carolina | at Greenville, N.C. | TBA | ||||
| Sat, Sep 08 | Gardner-Webb | Aggie Stadium | 6:00 PM | ||||
| Sat, Sep 22 | Morgan State * | Aggie Stadium | 6:00 PM | ||||
| Sat, Sep 29 | South Carolina State * | Aggie Stadium | 1:00 PM | ||||
| Sat, Oct 06 | Delaware State * | at Dover, Del. | TBA | ||||
| Sat, Oct 13 | Florida A&M * | Aggie Stadium | 1:00 PM | ||||
| Sat, Oct 20 | Bethune-Cookman * | at Daytona Beach, Fla. | 4:00 PM | ||||
| Greatest Homecoming On Earth | |||||||
| Sat, Nov 03 | Norfolk State * | Aggie Stadium | 1:00 PM | ||||
| Sat, Nov 10 | Savannah State * | at Savannah, Ga. | TBA | ||||
| Sat, Nov 17 | North Carolina Central * | at Durham, N.C. | 2:00 PM | ||||
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