All-Time HBCU Gameday Team: Quarterbacks
The top quarterbacks of the HBCU Gameday Era.
HBCU Football 2017: Team most likely to fall off
The 2017 football season is rapidly approaching, and every team from top to bottom is looking to figure out how they can get better. For those teams at the top, though, there is usually more room to go down than up. So we posed the question on twitter: Which HBCU football powerhouse is most likely […]
Real or Rumor: Alabama State, Alabama A&M to MEAC?
Summer is here and two things come along with that: hot weather and college football rumors. The latest college football rumor in the HBCU world is that Alabama’s two FCS HBCUs, Alabama State and Alabama A&M, are preparing to jump from the SWAC to the MEAC. The chatter began on online sports forums early this […]
SWAC to cut football title game in 2018
The SWAC Championship Game is history after 2017.
NCCU Football No. 22 in Street & Smith’s FCS Preseason Top 25
Courtesy of NCCU Athletics DURHAM, N.C. — After a 9-3 season and a third straight conference championship, North Carolina Central University is ranked No. 22 in the FCS preseason Top 25 by Street & Smith’s 2017 college football preview magazine. “We are honored to have a preseason ranking for the first time in our Division […]
Grambling football shows off HBCU national championship rings
Grambling’s HBCU National Championship rings are in.
Do The Smart Thing: NCCU, WSSU close to renewing rivalry on football field
A rivalry game between two North Carolina HBCU football powers looks like it will finally resume after more than half a decade of being dormant. No, not that one. But close. North Carolina Central and Winston-Salem State have verbally agreed to play each other in football in 2020. The game will take place in Durham, […]
Three top HBCU RB prospects for 2018 NFL Draft
Tarik Cohen’s selection in the NFL Draft could open doors for these three talented HBCU ball carriers.
Tarik Cohen drafted by Chicago Bears in 4th round
Tarik Cohen became the first HBCU running back drafted in nearly 20 years when he was selected by the Chicago Bears.
Grambling State’s Chad Williams drafted by Arizona Cardinals
Chad Williams was only offered one Division I scholarship coming out of high school in Baton Rouge, LA. Four years later, he’s now officially an NFL player. The Grambling State product was taken in the third round, 98th overall by the Arizona Cardinals. He was the first HBCU product chosen in the 2017 NFL Draft. […]
Three HBCU players who could get drafted on Day Two
For HBCU football fans, the NFL Draft really begins on Friday. As entertaining as the first night of the NFL Draft is for sports fans, there’s not usually much to get excited about if you are an HBCU football fanatic. No prospect from an HBCU has been chosen since 2008 and with that remaining the […]
Three ways the NFL can continue to honor, support HBCUs
The NFL made a big splash this weekend during its’ Super Bowl LI pregame show when it gave a tip of the hat to HBCUs, by honoring Hall of Fame players who attended them. Players like Willie Davis (Grambling), Willie Lanier (Morgan State) and Mel Blount (Southern) were honored as well as more recent greats […]
Four biggest HBCU football comebacks of 2016
Love them or hate them (like most people), the New England Patriots just completed one of the best comebacks ever on Sunday night in Super Bowl LI. The Pats defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 after trailing 28-3 in the third quarter. Now that football is officially over until the second half of the year, we […]
North Carolina Central 2017 Football Schedule: NCCU looking for fourth-straight MEAC title
(Steven J. Gaither/HBCU Gameday) Coming off its third-straight MEAC championship and a loss in the Celebration Bowl, NCCU will look finish the deal this year. Key cogs like Malcolm Bell and Mike Jones may be gone, but time waits for no college football team. With key games versus Duke to open the season and NC […]
The Kincade Effect: Has Grambling QB started an SEC-to-HBCU trend?
By Steven J. Gaither “Grambling is the best place to be. If you want to grow as a man, and play football. If you want to grow off the field also…Grambling is the way.” It’s been almost a month since it happened, but the vision is still clear in my head. Can still see De’Vante […]