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SOUTHWESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE 2019 SWAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK 2101 6th Avenue North, Suite 700 Birmingham, Alabama 35203 WEEK ONE 205. 251.7573 // www.swac.org Offense Andrew Roberts // Football Contact Prairie View A&M Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations Dawonya Tucker (SR, RB, Terrell, Tex- [email protected] as) Tucker tallied 298 all-purpose yards, @theswac Twitter rushing for 188 yards, catching for 29 @theswac Instagram yards receiving, and racking up 81 yards @theswac Facebook in kick returns. His three touchdown per- formance helped lead the Panthers to a 2019 SWAC FOOTBALL STANDINGS 44-23 season opening win over rival Tex- as Southern in the Labor Day Classic. EAST DIVISION School SWAC Pct. Overall Pct. Current Streak Co-Defensive Alabama A&M 0-0 .000 1-0 1.000 W1 Prairie View A&M Alcorn State 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Tre’Shaud Smith (JR, LB, Centreville, Jackson State 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Miss.) Alabama State 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Smith had 12 tackles, 1.0 sacks for sev- Mississippi Valley St. 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 en yards, and 2.0 TFL for nine yards in his debut at PVAMU. He was an anchor on a defensive unit that limited Texas WEST DIVISION Southern to two touchdowns offensive- School SWAC Pct. Overall Pct. Current Streak ly. Prairie View A&M 1-0 1.000 1-0 1.000 W1 Southern 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Co-Defensive Grambling State 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Arkansas-Pine Bluff Arkansas-Pine Bluff 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Kolby Watts (JR, LB, DeSoto, Texas) Texas Southern 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 L1 Made a career-high 10 tackles (nine so- lo) with one sack and two tackles for loss and led a defensive unit that forced six SWAC ANNOUNCES 2019 ESPN SCHEDULE field goals at TCU. The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced the upcoming ESPN line-up Specialist for the 2019 season highlighted by a total of 13 games that will be featured across Alabama State ESPN’s networks. Anthony Craven (SR, P, Linden, Calif.) Craven finished the game averaging 49.1 yards per punt – two yards above his ESPN’s season coverage of the SWAC will begin on Saturday, August 31, with the career average – with a long of 64 yards. Labor Day Classic as Prairie View A&M travels to face rival Texas Southern at He also hit three punts inside the 20 and BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. allowed just two returned punts. He rec- orded a total of six punts over 50 yards in The 2019 edition of the Celebration Bowl which features the champions of the ME- the loss. AC and SWAC will once again bring a fitting close to the national broadcast sched- ule for the league on December 21 at 12:00 pm EST on ABC at the Mercedes Benz Newcomer Stadium in Atlanta. Alabama State Duran Bell (R-SO, RB, Tampa, Fla.) Bell finished with a career-high 112 yards Date Time Game Watch on 10 carries in the Hornets’ 24-19 loss 8.31 5:30 pm Prairie View at Texas Southern ESPN3 (live)/ESPNU (delay) to FBS-member, UAB. The redshirt soph- 9.1 2:00 pm Bethune-Cookman vs. Jackson St. ESPN2 (live) omore scored on a 67-yard run to tie the 9.21 5:00 pm Prairie View A&M at Alcorn State ESPN3 (live) /ESPNU (delay) game against the Blazers in the first 9.28 6:00 pm Southern at UAPB ESPN3 (live) quarter. He ended the night averaging 10.5 6:00 pm Grambling State at Jackson St. ESPN3 (live) 11.2 yards per carry, while also catching 10.12 6:00 pm Southern at Prairie View A&M ESPN3 (live) three passes for eight yards. 10.19 2:00 pm Jackson State at Miss. Valley St. ESPN3 (live) /ESPNU (delay) 10.26 2:30 pm Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State ESPN3 (live) /ESPNU (delay) 11.2 4:00 pm Alabama A&M at Southern ESPN3 11.9 2:00 pm Alcorn State at Grambling State ESPN3 (live) /ESPNU (delay) 11.23 2:00 pm Alcorn State at Jackson State ESPN3 (live) 12.7 3:00 pm SWAC Championship Game ESPNU (live) SWAC leads FCS in 2018 football at- Youngstown State in 1994. tendance Celebration Bowl set for December 21 McNair guided the Braves in becoming on ABC The Southwestern Athletic Conference 1992 SWAC Champions, 1992 FCS earned its 40th FCS attendance title in 41 Playoffs, 1994 SWAC Champions and The Celebration Bowl, in its fifth year, will years, averaging 15,240 fans for a total of 1994 FCS Playoffs. Additionally, Alcorn be televised live on ABC for the fifth con- 746,760 in 2018 in a recently released re- was 13-0 at Jack Spinks-Marino Casem secutive year, kick-ing off at noon ET, on port by the National Football Foundation. Stadium during his tenure and led the FCS Saturday, Dec. 21, from Mercedes-Benz Jackson State claimed the FCS attend- in home attendance average (26,203) in Stadium in Atlanta. The Celebration Bowl, ance title attracting 99,079 fans for an av- 1994. In the SWAC, McNair is the only which showcases the heritage, legacy, erage of 24,770 fans for the Tigers’ four player in league history to be a four-time pageantry and tradition of Historically home games in 2018. SWAC Offensive Player of the Year (1991- Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), 94) winner. features the conference champions from Montana, which had claimed the FCS title the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for four consecutive seasons, came in at He was a four-time All-Conference First- (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Confer- second with an average of 24,677 fans for Team selection, 1991 SWAC Freshman of ence (SWAC). the Grizzlies’ six home games and 148,064 the Year and eight-time SWAC Player of spectators overall in 2018. James Madison the Week winner in 1994 which is the most The MEAC leads the series 3-1 with all (20,911), Southern (18,803) and North Da- by anyone in a single-season in league three wins coming from North Carolina kota State (18,106) rounded out the top history. Nationally, McNair is the FCS All- A&T, who held off Alcorn State to win the five. Time Passing Leader (14,496), 1992 Pass- 2018 Celebration Bowl 24-22. The Aggies ing Champion (4,057), 1994 Passing also captured their last minute 21-14 win champion (5,799) and FCS All-Time Total over Grambling State in 2017 capping the Tennessee Titans to retire Steve Yards Leader (16, 823). He was both a first unbeaten season in MEAC history. McNair’s uniform 1994 NCAA First-Team All-American and Grambling won the SWAC’s first title in 1994 American Football Coaches Associa- 2016 with a thrilling 10-9 victory over North The Tennessee Titans announced tion (AFCA) First-Team All-American. Carolina Central. Wednesday it will retire Steve McNair’s No. 9 jersey when the team hosts the Indianap- McNair won the 1994 Walter Payton Award The Celebration Bowl is one of this year’s olis Colts in their home opener on Sept. for being the top player in I-AA. He also 14 bowl games owned and operated by 15. McNair will be one of two players hon- earned the 1994 Eddie Robinson Trophy ESPN Events. ored that day along with teammate Eddie for being the top HBCU player in the coun- George. The duo be-come the seventh and try. McNair was a finalist for the 1994 Alabama State’s Tytus Howard selected eighth players to have their numbers re- Heisman Trophy and finished third in the in first round of NFL Draft by Houston tired in the history of the Titans/Oilers fran- voting. Texans chise. After four years, the Braves were 30-12-2 Alabama State offensive lineman Tytus The Titans — then the Houston Oilers — overall with McNair at quarterback and 23- Howard became the highest draft pick in drafted McNair out of Alcorn State with the 4-1 SWAC. McNair graduated from Alcorn school history when his named was called third overall pick in the 1995 NFL Draft. He in the spring of 1995 with a Bachelor’s de- in the first round by the Houston Texans. was named the league’s co-MVP (with gree in Physical Education from the School Peyton Manning) in 2003, earned three of Education. He was a two-time Dean’s The four-time All-American was the 23rd Pro Bowl nods (2000, 2003, 2005), and in Scholar recipient. “Air II” McNair is the overall selection by the Texans, and is the 1999 led the Titans to their only Super younger brother of current head coach 20th overall se-lection from Alabama State Bowl appearance. McNair spent the last Fred “Air McNair. in school history. Howard saw his stock two seasons of his NFL career with the climb after playing in the Reese’s Senior Baltimore Ravens. In his 13-year NFL ca- Grambling State’s Fobbs selected to Bowl and participating in this year’s NFL reer, McNair threw for 31,304 yards and serve on AFCA Committee Combine in Indianapolis. 174 touchdowns while completing 60.1 percent of his passes in his career. He The American Football Coaches Associa- He is the first selection from Alabama played in 161 games. tion (AFCA) has announced that Gram- State since Jylan Ware was chosen by the bling State University head coach Broder- Oakland Raiders in the 2017 draft, and A four-year letterwinner at Alcorn, McNair ick Fobbs has been selected to serve on becomes the first first-round selection from became the school’s all-time career pass- the FCS Executive Head Coaches Commit Alabama State in school history.