Week 9 HBCU Football Weekly Awards: Keely Watson and Athean Renfro Headline the MEAC and SWAC Honors
The best performances of Week 9 came in all shapes. A quarterback carved up a top-five team on a Thursday…
By Urban Belle Media
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College basketball usually doesn’t start before sunrise. Grambling State tipped off against Northern Illinois at 3 a.m. Eastern (2 a.m.…
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The best performances of Week 9 came in all shapes. A quarterback carved up a top-five team on a Thursday…
Bethune-Cookman spent exactly one week at No. 3 in the Black College Football Poll. Then it went to Pine Bluff,…
Two Saturdays remain before the Division II selection show, and the HBCU count in our projected field has not moved.…
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GHOE and the Magic City Classic both came down to the final two minutes. At Legion Field, No. 1 Alabama…
Rahsaan Matthews Jr. threw for 476 yards, and Virginia State still took its first CIAA loss. Johnson C. Smith blocked…
Week 9 starts on a Thursday night in Baltimore, and it might settle the MEAC race before most of the…