For the Week of November 21 - 27, 2017 2 0 1 7 B L A C K C O L L E G E F O O T B A L L (Standings and Weekly Honors)

Central Intercollegiate Mid Eastern Southwestern SCORES CIAA Athletic Association MEAC Athletic Conference SWAC Athletic Conference INDEPENDENTS FINAL DIV CONF ALL CONF ALL CONF ALL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 FINAL W L NORTH DIVISION W L W L W L FINAL W L W L EAST DIVISION W L W L Langston 10 1 SWAC Virginia State 5 0 7 0 10 1 North Carolina A&T 8 0 11 0 Alcorn State 5 2 7 4 Tennessee State 6 5 Prairie View A&M 42, Incarnate Word 28 Bowie State 4 1 6 1 9 2 Howard 6 2 7 4 Alabama State 4 3 4 6 W. Va. State 6 5 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Virginia Union 3 2 5 2 6 4 Bethune-Cookman 6 2 7 4 Alabama A&M 3 4 4 7 Lincoln (Mo.) 1 9 Chowan 2 3 4 3 4 6 MEAC North Carolina Central 5 3 7 4 Jackson State 3 4 3 8 College 1 9 ™ Elizabeth City State 1 4 2 5 4 6 Hampton 5 3 6 5 Miss. Valley State 1 6 2 9 Edward Waters 1 9 Bethune-Cookman 29, Florida A&M 24 Lincoln 0 5 0 7 0 10 Norfolk State 4 4 4 7 WEST DIVISION Cheyney 1 10 Florida State 77, Delaware State 6 SOUTH DIVISION Savannah State 3 5 3 8 Grambling State 6 0 9 1 Hampton 20, Howard 17 Fayetteville State 5 0 5 2 6 5 SC State 2 6 3 7 Southern 5 1 7 3 BCSP INDY PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Norfolk State 45, Morgan State 32 Saint Augustine’s 4 1 5 2 5 5 Florida A&M 2 6 3 8 Prairie View A&M 3 3 5 5 OFFENSE Winston-Salem State 3 2 4 3 6 4 Delaware State 2 6 2 9 Texas Southern 2 4 2 8 NA NC A&T 24, NC Central 10 Shaw 1 4 2 5 3 7 Morgan State 1 7 1 10 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 1 6 2 9 DEFENSE Savannah State 34, S. Carolina State 10 Johnson C. Smith 2 3 2 5 2 8 Chris Collins, LB, TENNESSEE STATE - Led SWAC Livingstone 0 5 0 7 0 10 SWAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Blue Tigers with 12 tackles, 9 solos, 1.5 tackles MEAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK for 10 yards in losses, 1 sack for -9 yards in loss Logo Alabama A&M 24, Kentucky State 13 OFFENSE OFFENSE & NEWCOMER BCSP CIAA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Neiko Hollins, Fr., QB, PRAIRIE VIEW - Com- to Jacksonville State. Larry Brihm, Sr., QB, BETHUNE-COOKMAN - 26-36-0, SPECIAL TEAMS Alabama State 16, Miss. Valley State 10 QB - Amir Hall, Jr., QB, BSU - Completed 34 of 60 pleted 23 of 35 passes for 343 yards and 4 TDs HOW THE WEST IS WON: 280 yards, 1 TD (35), two rushing TDs (2, 5) vs. FAMU NA Jackson State 7, Alcorn State 3 passes for 332 yards and 2 TDs (2, 13) without an (48, 11, 28, 49) in win over Incarnate Word. AXES BCSP No. 2 Grambling DEFENSE Texas Southern 24, Ark.-Pine Bluff 10 interception and ran for 66 yards on 19 carries with 2 Diquan Richardson, Sr., S, BETHUNE-COOKMAN - Two DEFENSE and No. 7 Southern do TDs (2, 14) in Div. II playoff loss to Delta State. picks, one with :36 seconds left to seal win over FAMU. Kenneth Davis, Sr., LB, ALABAMA A&M - 13 INDEPENDENTS tackles, 5 solos, 1 sack, 1.5 TFL vs. KSU. START LB - Brandon Lynch, Sr., LB, VSU - Led Trojans ROOKIE battle in SPECIALIST Jacksonville State 36, Tennessee State 6 with 14 solo tackles, 4 for losses of 22 yards including D’Vonn Gibbons, Fr., QB, SAVANNAH STATE - 13 of 23, 267 yards, 2 TDs (90, 5) 19 carries, 47 yardsvs. SCSU. Darius Floyd, R-Sr., WR/KR, PRAIRIE VIEW - TO FALL for SWAC West title. NCAA DIV. II PLAYOFF GAMES one sack for -11 yards in Div. II playoff loss to West SPECIALIST 262 all-purpose yards, avgd. 36.3 yards on 3 KO Delta State 45, Bowie State 35 Georgia. Javaune Francis, Jr., P, B-CU - Averaged 48.7 yards on returns, 11 receptions, 153 yards, 2 TD catches West Georgia 35, Virginia State 9 WR - Zachary Parker, VSU - Had 6 receptions for 110 3 punts, including 68-yarder vs. FAMU. (48, 28) vs. IWU. 7 FOOTBALL COACHES CANNED; HAMPTON LEAVING yards in loss to West Georgia. OFFENSIVE LINEMAN NAIA PLAYOFFS MEAC; SWAC WEST TO BE DECIDED AT BAYOU CLASSIC SPECIAL TEAMS- Matt Hillquist, PK, VSU - Had Chris Adams, Sr., C, B-CU - 91% grade NW Iowa 55, Langston 7 field goals of 32 and 26 yards accounting for 6 of the

UNDER THE BANNER SWAC West again down to Catfight in New Orleans WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS LUT WILLIAMS G A M E S T H I S W E E K BCSP Editor One of the last postseason berths is to be de- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 cided Saturday when the BCSP No. 2 Grambling Alabama State vs. Cheyney in Montgomery, AL 2p State Tigers (9-1, 6-0 SWAC W) and BCSP No. 7 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Southern Jaguars (7-3, 5-1 W) do battle in New Spady Carter Wood Comegy Coleman CLASSIC GAMES Orleans at their season-ending Bayou Classic at Bayou Classic - NBC Sports Network the Mercedes-Beuz SuperDome (4 p.m., NBC Grambling State vs. Southern in New Orleans 4p JAMES Spady out at Alabama A&M: Sports Network). Rescheduled - HUNTSVILLE -- Alabama A&M announced Sun- The game might as well be called the champi- Texas Southern vs. Prairie View A&M in , TX 6p day that James Spady will not return as head football onship game of the SWAC West Division because ANOTHER ARMS RACE: Grambling senior QB coach. The announcement was made by Director of Ath- Devante Kincade and Southern senior Austin that's perennially what the game between the rival Howard lead their teams into Saturday's Bayou letics Bryan Hicks. schools has decided. The winner gets to Classic with the winner advancing to the Dec. 2 throws. Edwards is second in rushing yards (900 Spady was 4-7 overall this season, 3-4 in SWAC represent the West a week later in the final SWAC SWAC Championship Game. yards, 100.0 ypg., 5 TDs) while Carter (708 yards, play. He was 15-30 in four seasons Championship Game, Dec. 2 in Houston vs. East 78.7 ypg., 8 TDs) is third. Division champ Alcorn State. are 1-2 in passing yards, 1-2 in passing efficiency Grambling has won the last two games be- Head coach, AD out at DelState: The winner of that game gets to represent (Kincade 148.0, Howard 142.4), 1-2 in total of- tween the two. The G-Men went on to win the Delaware State has fired its athletics director and the SWAC in III vs. MEAC fense (Kincade 245.4 ypg., Howard 203.8) and SWAC championship game over Alcorn State last will not extend the contract of its head football coach. champion North Carolina A&T at 's new 1-2 in passing touchdowns (Kincade 18, Howard year after falling to the Braves in 2015. Southern Head football coach Kenneth Carter's contact ends Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Dec. 16. 16). Kincade has thrown just three interceptions won the previous two games and also split cham- Jan. 31, and the university won't extend his contact. The in 278 attempts. Howard has five picks in 241 pionship game wins with Alcorn State. process to recruit a new coach begins in December. BAYOU CLASSIC Carter led the Hornets to a 3-30 record in his three This year's game is the 44th in the series that seasons. Delaware State was 1-10 in his first season with became known in 1974 as the Bayou Classic. Af- followed by marks of 0-11 (2016) and 2-9 (2017). ter last year's 52-30 Grambling win, the Tigers Three teams fizzle out in playoffs The university decided not to continue its relation- hold a 22-21 edge. Prior to 1974, Southern held a • BCSP No. 3 VIRGINIA STATE (10-1), averaging 40 points and 463 yards per game, was ship with former athletics director 15-10 lead giving the Jaguars a 36-32 lead in the held to just 277 yards of offense and three field goals as they fell at home to West Georgia 35-9 in a Louis “Skip” Perkins, who came to all-time series. first round NCAA Div. II playoff game. CIAA Offensive Player of the Year Trenton Cannon was DSU in 2015 as the interim athletics The game will match the top two quarter- held to just 65 yards on 21 carries as UWG bottled up the VSU offense. director. Mary Hill, senior associate backs in the SWAC – Grambling senior Devante • BCSP No. 4 BOWIE STATE (9-2) fought back from a 31-7 second-quarter deficit to go athletics director for internal opera- Kincade and Southern senior Austin Howard and ahead 35-31 in the third quarter but could not sustain it in falling to Delta State 45-35 in a first round tions and senior woman administra- two of the league's top running backs in Southern NCAA Div. II playoff game in Bowie, Md. BSU QB Amir Hall finished 34 of 60 for 332 passing tor, will now serve as interim director senior Herbert Edwards and Grambling senior yards and two scores while running for 66 yards and two scores. Perkins of athletics. Martez Carter. Grambling has won eight straight • LANGSTON (10-1) suffered its first loss of the season, 55-7 to Northwestern Iowa in a first games while Southern is on a six-game win streak. round NAIA playoff contest. The Red Raiders (10-1) led 21-0 at the half and were up 45-0 before ALEX Wood resigns at FlorIda A&M: Kincade (223.8 ypg.) and Howard (203.0) the Lions scored their only TD of the game on Tim Whitfield’s run with 9:43 left in the final stanza. Tallahassee.com (website for the Tallahassee Dem- ocrat newspaper) reported the resignation of Florida A&M head football coach Alex Wood. Wood's resigna- tion was effective Monday, November 20. Hampton decides to leave the MEAC for Big South Outgoing Athletic Director Milton Overton Jr, , whose women’s basketball Radford, High Point, Winthrop and UNC Asheville). The confirmed Wood's resignation. Wood's contract, a 3-year team pulled off a shocker with a win over ACC-member league added USC Upstate, located in Spartanburg, S. C., deal, ends next month. Offensive line coach Edwin Pata UNC to open the season, announced a bigger shocker last as an 11th full-time member on Wednesday. Hampton be- will be the team's interim head coach. Thursday when it officially said that it is leaving theMid comes its 12th member. Wood, who was hired before the 2015 season, went Eastern Athletic Conference, its athletics home for the MEAC Commissioner Dr. Dennis Thomas, contacted 8-25 in three seasons at the helm of the Rattlers. FAMU last 22 years, to join the Big South Conference. last Thursday in his office in Norfolk, Va., said the move finished this season 3-8 and 2-6 in MEAC play after a 4-7 The announcement was made at an 11 a.m. joint was not a surprise. (4-4 MEAC) finish in 2016. press conference with the Big South Thursday on campus "First, I want to congratulate and wish Hampton the at the University’s Student Center Theater. absolute best moving forward," said Thomas. "Dr. Harvey RICK COMEGY NOT RENEWED AT MVSU: Hampton President Dr. William R. Harvey was not has kept the conference and me apprised of what their in- Mississippi Valley State University will not extend present at the press conference but said in a press release tentions were through the years. There were no surprises the contract of Rick Comegy as head football coach. In that the move was made primarily for academic and trav- because Dr. Harvey was very transparent in terms of his a statement on the website mvsusports.com, the school el considerations. Harvey goals and aspirations for Hampton in terms of conference announced the decision. "Institutions in the Big South are located in Virginia, alignment." Despite having a SWAC championship (2007) on his North Carolina and South Carolina, which means that our student athletes "Institutions make decisions based on what they think will be best for resume and two more trips to the SWAC championship will spend less time travelling and more time in classes on campus," his them," said Thomas. game (2012 and 2013) while coaching at in-state rival statement read. "This keeps the proper focus on academics, which is our Savannah State, an MEAC member, announced in September that Jackson State, Comegy was not able to move the Delta chief reason for being. The smaller it would be leaving the MEAC and Devils into relative success. In his four years at Valley his geographic footprint will also reduce Div. I status to move back to Div. II. teams went 6-38 and never won more that two games in a travel expanses." Maynor latest coach to bow out Thomas said the decisions by Savan- season. The Big South, with headquarters HAMPTON, Va. – Less than one week after announcing its nah State and Hampton are part of Vincent Dancy will serve as MVSU's interim head in Charlotte, N. C., is an NCAA Div. plans to leave the MEAC for a new conference (Big South), Hamp- constantly evolving world of coach, and a search committee will begin the I Conference with ten primary mem- ton University is looking for a new football coach. athletics. process of selecting the next head football coach immedi- bers, three in Virginia (Liberty, Long- Connell Maynor resigned from his posi- "We are constantly engaged in ately. wood and Radford), four in North tion Monday, the school confirmed in a release. planning, strategic planning and long- Carolina (Campbell, High Point, Assistant coach Michael Ketchum will oversee range planning since I became com- LET GO AT UAPB: Gardner-Webb and UNC Asheville) the football program until Maynor’s successor missioner 16 years ago," said Thomas PINE BLUFF, AR – The University of Arkansas at and three in South Carolina (Presbyte- is named. noting that the league has added Pine Bluff announced Monday that it will not renew the rian, Winthrop and Charleston South- In four seasons at Hampton, Maynor led the Hampton, Norfolk State, Savannah contract of Monte Coleman when it expires on Decem- ern). Pirates to a 20--25 record including a 6-5 mark State and North Carolina Central ber 31, 2017. Coleman has served as head football coach Monmouth, in New Jersey, and Maynor this year, tied for fourth in the MEAC at 5-3. over that span. for the Golden Lions since 2008. Kennesaw State in Georgia, are foot- "That will not change. And we've The Golden Lions went 40-70 in 10 years under ball only members. The Big South been in contact with several other in- Coleman, including capturing UAPB's first-ever South- competes in football on the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) stitutions in terms of joining our conference." western Athletic Conference outright championship in level. Five of the Big South’s programs do not play football (Longwood, 2012 with a 10-2 record. The Golden Lions finished 2-9 in 2013, 4-7 in 2014, 2-9 in 2015, 1-10 in 2016 and 2-9 this season. B C S P F O O T B A L L T O P T E N Ted White, offensive coordinator, will oversee the 1. NORTH CAROLINA A&T (11-0) - Defeated NC Central 24-10 to clinch MEAC ourtight THE STAT CORNER program while a search committee looks for a new head title. NEXT: Dec. 16 in Atlanta’s Celebration Bowl. WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS man. 2. GRAMBLING STATE (9-1) - Idle NEXT: Saturday in New Orleans vs. Southern.

T3. BETHUNE-COOKMAN (7-4) - Defeated Florida A&M, 29-24 at . NEXT: HBCU FOOTBALL TEAMS MARK JAMES OUT AT VIRGINIA UNION: Season over. Virginia Union announced last week that Head ALCORN STATE (7-4) - Lost to Jackson State, 7-3. NEXT: Dec. 2 vs. West champion in IN NATIONAL POLLS Football Coach Mark James has been SWAC Championship game. through games of November 18, 2017 fired after four years at the school. HOWARD (7-4) - Ended season with 20-17 loss to Hampton. NEXT: Season over. FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION (FCS) James, who played at VUU and also North Carolina Central (7-4) - Lost to NC A&T, 24-10. NEXT: Season over. COACHES POLL served as an assistant coach at the school, 7. Southern (7-3) - Idle. NEXT: Saturday vs. Grambling State in Bayou Classic. 7th - North Carolina A&T (11-0) - Last week T7th finished 6-4 this year and 26-15 through 8. VIRGINIA STATE (10-1) - Humbled by West Georgia 35-9 in first round D2 playoff 12th - Grambling State (9-1) - Last week 11th James his four years. He had a 7-3 record in game. NEXT: Season over. STATS POLL his first year, the first winning campaign 9. BOWIE STATE (9-2) - Falls to Delta State, 45-35 in Div. II first round playoff game. 7th - North Carolina A&T (11-0) - Last week 8th since 2009. He followed that up with an 8-3 finish that NEXT: Season over. 13th - Grambling State (9-1) - Same included a Div. II playoff berth. He was 5-5 in 2015. 10. Tuskegee (9-2) - Season over after winning SIAC championship game.

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