No. 1 Vs. No. 2 Finale in the ATL CELEBRATION BOWL III YARDSTICK by LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor 2017 Showdown at Celebration Bowl to Again Determine N

A I R F O R C E R E S E R V E C E L E B R A T I O N B O W L I I I For the Week of December 12 - 18, 2017 NORTH CAROLINA A&T GRAMBLING STATE AGGIES (11-0) TIGERS (11-1) vs. CHAMPION CHAMPION Mid Eastern Athletic Conference Southwestern Athletic Conference

Team Record 2017 RESULTS 2017 RESULTS Team Record ™ 2017 Overall: 11-0 N. CAROLINA A&T 11-0 GRAMBLING STATE 11-1 2017 Overall: 11-1 MEAC Record: 8-0 45..@ Gardner-Webb.... 3 W 23...... NW State...... 10 W SWAC Record: 9-0 2017 BCSP Ranking: 1st 56...... Mars Hill...... 0 W 14...... @ Tulane...... 43 L 2017 BCSP Ranking: 2nd All-Time vs. Grambling: 3-4 35...... @ Charlotte...... 31 W 36..... Jackson State.....21 W All-Time vs. NC A&T: 4-3 Last Time vs. GSU: 37-35, W, '97 49...@ Morgan State... 17 W 38.... Miss. Valley State..6 W Last Time vs. NC A&T: 35-37, L '97 MEAC Titles: 9 SWAC Titles: 25 21..... @ S. C. State...... 7 W 31..... vs. Clark Atlanta....20 W Last Title 2015 Last Title 2016 44....Delaware State...... 3 W 34.....@ Prairie View A&M...21 W 41...... Alcorn State...... 14 W 31....@ Florida A&M.... 20 W COACH'S RECORD 50.... Texas Southern....24 W COACH'S RECORD Celebration Bowl Logo Alma Mater: North Carolina ('77) 24...Bethune-Cookman.. 20 W 31...@ Ark.-Pine Bluff...26 W Alma Mater: Grambling ('97) Head Coach Record vs. Grambling: 0-0 35... @ Norfolk State..... 7 W Head Coach CLASH SWAC vs. MEAC: Top 24...@ Alabama State....7 W Record vs. NC A&T: 0-0 ROD Record at A&T: 58-22, .725 (7th year) 36... Savannah State... 17 W BRODERICK two teams in Atlanta to 30...... Southern...... 21 W Record at GSU: 38-10, .791 (4th year) OF THE Career Record: 126-45, .737 (15th year) 24...... N. C. Central...... 10 W FOBBS settle HBCU football BROADWAY 40...... Alcorn State...... 32 W Career Record: Same TITANS national championship. S A T U R D A Y , D E C E M B E R 1 6 , 2 0 1 7 - A T L A N T A , G A - M E R C E D E S B E N Z S T A D I U M - 1 2 N O O N O N A B C MACK LEAVES NC CENTRAL, SIMMONS TO FAMU, PRUNTY TO HAMPTON; HILL-ELEY IN AT BAMA STATE No. 1 vs. No. 2 finale in the ATL CELEBRATION BOWL III YARDSTICK by LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor 2017 showdown at Celebration Bowl to again determine N. C. A&T TEAM GRAMBLING STATE The organizers of the Celebration Bowl HBCU football national champion 36.4 ppg. (1st in MEAC) SCORING OFFENSE 32.7 ppg (2nd in SWAC) could not be happier. 12.3 ppg. (1st) SCORING DEFENSE 18.0 ppg. (2nd) For the third straight year since the Mid 429.5 ypg. (1st) TOTAL OFFENSE 369.9 ypg. (4th) Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwest- vaulted the Aggies to the top spot. It was a perch 251.4 ypg. (1st) TOTAL DEFENSE 332.3 ypg. (3rd) ern Athletic Conference decided to match their they never relinquished as they ran off an un- 172.0 ypg. (2nd) RUSHING OFFENSE 142.7 ypg. (5th) football champions in a nationally televised precedented 11 straight wins to take the outright 79.5 ypg. (1st) RUSHING DEFENSE 102.4 ypg. (1st) bowl event, the game Saturday that kicks off the MEAC title. En route to winning that crown the 257.5 ypg. (1st) PASSING OFFENSE 227.2 ypg. (3rd) 2017 bowl season and ends the HBCU football Aggies subdued rival NCCU, who had stymied season will determine the black college national the Aggies quest for the outright title in the final 171.9 ypg. (2nd) PASSING DEFENSE 229.9 ypg. (8th) RUSHING STUDS: Grambling running back INDIVIDUAL champion. game in each of the past three seasons. Martez Carter (4) and N. C. A&T's Marquell Cart- Marquell Cartwright (1st) RUSHING Martez Carter (3rd) Grambling meanwhile was putting togeth- wright lead ground attacks for their teams as they 1,080 yds., 4.8 ypc., 13 TDs 842 yds., 5.2 ypc., 10 TDs HOW WE GOT HERE er an 11-game win streak of its own, rolling face off in Celebration Bowl III in Atlanta on Sat- Lamar Raynard (1st) PASSING Devante Kincade (1st) The 12 noon showdown between head through the SWAC, defeating Southern in the urday. 186-285-5, 2,707 yds., 26 TDs 198-332-3, 2,632 yds., 21 TDs coach Rod Broadway's undefeated (11-0) regular season finale to take the West Division Elijah Bell (2nd) RECEIVING Darrell Clark (NA) MEAC champion North Carolina A&T Aggies title before knocking off East Division champ last year's game? 54 rec., 858 yds., 11 TDs 41 rec., 489 yds., 5 TDs and head coach Broderick Fobbs' 11-1 SWAC Alcorn State for the second time this season Nobody knows. Marquell Cartwright (1st) SCORING Mark Orozco (PK) (1st) champion Grambling State Tigers at the new and second consecutive year in the conference's Both teams average over 30 points per game 13 TDs, 78 pts., 7.1 ppg. 18 FGs, 45-46 PATs, 99 pts. 8.2 ppg. Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta pits two championship game. and hold the opposition below 20 (see Cel- LB Jeremy Taylor (21st) TACKLES LB D'Arius Christmas (7th) ebration Bowl III Yardstick). They 46 solos, 19 assists, 65, 5.9 tpg. 42 solo, 37 assists, 79, 6.6 tpg. teams that have been at the top of the HBCU have dynamic rushers in powerful Marquell Sam Blue/Darryl Johnson SACKS La'Allan Clark (3rd) food chain all year long. The Aggies are No. 1 in WHAT KIND OF GAME TO EXPECT Cartwright 6.5 7.5, 0.68 spg. the BCSP ranking while the G-Men are No. 2. In Celebration Bowl I, N. C. A&T and Al- (5-10, 201) of A&T and cat quick Franklin McCain/Jeremy Taylor INTERCEPTIONS De'Aumante Johnson (1st) Grambling, who was voted and declared corn State put on a shootout for the ages with Martez Carter (5-9, 205) of Grambling. And 5, 0.45 pg. 5. 0.45 last year's national champion after a 10-9 win the Aggies prevailing 41-34. A&T's Tarik Co- both have their respective league's best defenses Khris Gardin PUNT RETURNS Joshua Mosley over MEAC champ North Carolina Central hen, now with the NFL's Chicago Bears, ran for against the run. 11, 353 yds., 13.6 ypr., 1 TD 15, 85 yds., 5.7 ypr, 0 TD in Celebration Bowl II, began this season as the 295 yards and TDs of 74, 83 and 73 yards. There A&T junior Lamar Raynard and Gram- Khris Gardin KICK RETURNS Lavontis Smith No. 1-ranked team in the BCSP Top Ten but fell were 74- and 84-yard punt returns for touch- bling senior Devante Kincade also led their 14, 376 yds., 26.9 ypr., 0 TD 13, 251 yds., 19.3 ypr., 0 TD out of that position after a early loss at FBS and downs and over 800 yards of total offense. leagues in passing yards with both throwing for James Mackey (9th) PUNTING Miguel Mendez (6th) American Athletic Conference member Tulane. Last year in Celebration Bowl II, Gram- over 2,600 yards. Raynard had 26 TDs and five 38.0 avg. 38.5 avg. North Carolina Central, second in the pre- bling and NCCU scored just one touchdown interceptions while Kincade had 21 and 3. Noel Ruiz (1st) PLACEKICKING Mark Orozco (1st) But remember, the game is won up front. 9-12 FGs, 45-51 PATs, 72 pts. 18-22 FGs, 45-46 PATs, 99 pts. 8.2 ppg. season ranking, lost its season opener on the each and the game was decided on a blocked road at FBS and ACC member Duke. PAT attempt. Grambling led the SWAC with 43 sacks while That paved the way for A&T, who began So the big question for this year's game is A&T led the MEAC with 35. But the Aggies the season as the third-ranked team and opened will it be a shootout like the 2015 affair or the gave up just 10 sacks while the G-Men surren- UNDER THE BANNER with a 45-3 road win over Gardner-Webb that kind of grind-it-out slugfest that characterized dered 29. Keep your eye on that.

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JERRY MACK LEAVES NC CENTRAL: BCSP Notes Ultra-successful North Carolina Central head Florida A&M presents Willie Simmons programs. coach Jerry Mack, who won three as new head football coach "Coach Prunty's record speaks for itself," Mar- shall said. "He's from Virginia. He played for Hampton. Mid Eastern Athletic Conference Willie Simmons unexpectedly resigned after three successful seasons It was very refreshing to hear him say 'I want to come championships in his four years lead- as the Prairie View A&M head football coach to take back to Hampton.'" ing the Eagles, announced last week the same position at Florida A&M. Prunty served last season as East Carolina's as- he was resigning to become the new Simmons was formally presented as the Rat- sociate head coach, defensive coordinator and defen- offensive coordinator at Rice Univer- tlers new coach on Tuesday morning Dec. 12 at the Prunty sive line coach. Prior to that, he served four years as sity. Lawson Multipurpose Center and Teaching Gymna- the University of Cincinnati's associate head coach and Mack sium on the school's campus. Mack, 37, will join former defensive ends coach and three years as co-defensive coordinator. Before Simmons, 37, compiled a record of 21-11 at Stanford offensive coordinator Mike Bloomgren, the impacting the Bearcat program, Prunty spent three seasons under Tommy Prairie View. Born in Tallahassee, Fla., Simmons new head coach at Rice who is replacing 10-year head Tuberville at Texas Tech, 2010-2012, directing the Red Raiders' defensive played high school football in Florida, and was a coach David Bailiff who was fired in November. Mack ends. Simmons quarterback briefly at FAMU in 2003 after transfer- and Bloomgren served together on the staff at Delta State Prunty is a Chatham, Va., native and a 1983 Hargrave Military Acad- ring from Clemson. from 2005-2007. emy graduate. Prunty split his collegiate career between Hampton and on Nov. 21, Alex Wood resigned at Florida A&M following a 3-8 Alabama A&M, where he graduated in 1988. "I just couldn't turn down this opportunity for me season and after leading the Rattlers to a 8-25 record in three years. and my family," Mack told Jonas Pope of the Durham Assistant coach Bubba McDowell has been named interim head Herald-Sun. Mack, whose base salary at NCCU was coach at Prairie View A&M. Longtime CIAA coach Ed "Buck" Joyner passes $180,000, will more than double his salary at Rice. Edward Joyner, Sr., former head men's basketball coach at St. Paul's While at NCCU, Mack went 31-15, and won a share and Livingstone passed on Wednesday in Hampton, Virginia at the age of two MEAC championships (2014 and 2015) and won the Hampton names Robert Prunty 68. 2016 title outright. He led the Eagles to the Air Force Re- as new head football coach Joyner, Sr. began coaching collegiate basketball in 1987 as an assis- serve Celebration Bowl in 2016. This season, NCCU fin- HAMPTON, Va. — Robert Prunty was introduced as the 21st head tant at Johnson C. Smith with brother Stephen Joyner, Sr. He became the head coach at Saint Paul's in 1993. Joyner took over the head coaching ished 7-4 overall, 5-3 in MEAC play, good for a fourth- coach of the Hampton Pirates at a news conference Friday (Dec. 8) at Hampton University's Student Center Theater. reigns at Livingstone in 2000. After two seasons in Salisbury, NC, Joyner place tie. "I am up for the challenge," Prunty said. returned to Saint Paul's courtside for seven more years. NCCU promoted Granville East- Eugene Marshall Jr., Director of Athletics at Hampton University, After a brief hiatus, Joyner joined the staff at Livingstone as an assis- man to interim head coach for the welcomed Prunty, a Hamptonian with more than 30 years of football ex- tant to James Stinson. He later became a volunteer assistant for Hampton 2018 season. Eastman came to NCCU perience as a player and coach and a four-time conference recruiter-of- under his son Edward Joyner, Jr. and was serving in that capacity when with Mack four years ago and has the-year honoree with two different Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) he passed. served as the Eagles' assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and safe- ties coach. Eastman M E N ' S 2 0 1 7 - 1 8 B L A C K C O L L E G E B A S K E T B A L L (Results, Standings and Weekly Honors)

Central Intercollegiate Mid Eastern Southern Intercollegiate Southwestern HILL GETS ALABAMA STATE NOD: CIAA Athletic Association Athletic Conference MEAC SIAC Athletic Conference SWAC Athletic Conference INDEPENDENTS MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama State has DIV CONF ALL CONF ALL CONF ALL DIV ALL NORTH DIVISION W L W L W L W L W L EAST DIVISION W L W L W L Donald Hill-Eley W L W L promoted assistant Virginia State 0 0 0 0 6 0 North Carolina A&T 0 0 5 4 Claflin 4 0 10 1 W. Va. State 6 4 Eliz. City State 0 0 0 0 3 2 Grambling State 0 0 3 6 Bethune-Cookman 0 0 4 5 Morehouse 3 0 8 0 Tennessee State 4 3 to head coach. Lincoln 0 0 0 0 5 4 Jackson State 0 0 3 7 Morgan State 0 0 4 6 Clark Atlanta 3 0 8 1 Lincoln (Mo.) 5 5 Chowan 0 0 0 0 4 4 Prairie View A&M 0 0 2 7 Eley was named the Hornets' in- Hampton 0 0 4 7 Fort Valley State 3 1 5 4 Cheyney 1 8 Bowie State 0 0 0 0 5 6 Alcorn State 0 0 2 8 North Carolina Central 0 0 4 8 Benedict 2 2 8 2 UDC 1 8 terim head coach in early October af- Virginia Union 0 0 0 0 5 6 Southern 0 0 2 8 SOUTH DIVISION Md. E. Shore 0 0 3 8 Paine 0 2 1 8 Brian Jenkins Miss. Valley State 0 0 0 8 ter was fired following J. C. Smith 0 0 0 0 7 2 Savannah State 0 0 3 8 Albany State 0 4 0 10 INDEPENDENT PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Shaw 0 0 0 0 4 4 Ark. Pine Bluff 0 0 0 8 PLAYER an 0-5 start. Eley led Alabama State to Delaware State 0 0 2 9 WEST DIVISION Fayetteville State 0 0 0 0 3 6 Alabama State 0 0 0 8 6-1, So. G, Aver- SC State 0 0 2 9 Central State 3 1 4 4 Ernest Jenkins, , W. VA. STATE - Livingstone 0 0 0 0 1 3 Texas Southern 0 0 0 9 aged 21.0 points in two Yellow Jacket wins. Had 21 five wins in their final six games, in- Howard 0 0 1 10 Lane 2 2 3 4 St. Augustine’s 0 0 0 0 2 7 Alabama A&M 0 0 0 9 vs. Urbana and 21 vs. Notre Dame. cluding a victory over rival Alabama Florida A&M 0 0 1 11 Kentucky State 2 2 3 8 Hill-Eley Winston-Salem State 0 0 0 0 2 7 NEWCOMER A&M in the Magic City Classic. Norfolk State 0 0 0 9 Tuskegee 1 2 1 8 BCSP SWAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Pat Johnson-Agwu, 6-5, Jr., F, W. VA. STATE - Got CIAA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Coppin State 0 0 0 10 Spring Hill 0 1 2 5 PLAYER 20 points and 6 boards in win over Notre Dame. Tallied The interim tag was removed Thursday. PLAYER Miles 0 2 1 6 Maurice Rivers, 6-7, Jr., F, JSU - Had team-high 30 game-high 26 points and 9 rebounds vs. Urbana. Roger Ray, So., G, LIVINGSTONE - Averaged 21.5 BCSP MEAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK LeMoyne-Owen 0 4 3 6 points making 14 of 25 shots, nearly half the Tigers' NA Eley had served as associate head coach since join- PLAYER points in 1-1 week, getting 21 in win over Paine and points, in 91-62 loss to La. Tech. Also had team-high Marcus Barham, Jr., G, FAMU - Got 30 points (12 16 points in win over Fisk. 22 in loss to Lander. Shot 14 of 30 from the field, 12 SIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK ing the program in 2015 after one year as Norfolk State's of 19 FGs, 5 of 19 3s) with 7 assists vs. N. Florida NEWCOMER of 15 from the line. PLAYER wide receivers coach. He was Morgan State's head ROOKIE and 21 (7 of 11 3s) vs. Mercer. Averaged 25.5 NA points in two losses. Jaleel Charles, 6-8, Sr., F, CLAFLIN - Had 29 Keith Dufflin, Fr., F, BOWIE STATE - In two games, points in win over WSSU, 23 in win vs. St. Aug's. coach for 12 seasons until 2013, winning 59 games. Eley average 11.5 points getting 19 points and 12 re- NEWCOMER Javaris Jenkins, Sr., G, SSU - Had team-high Averaging 12.3 points, 9.3 boards on season was Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference coach of the year bounds vs. UDC. NEWCOMER NEWCOMER 31 points on 12 of 17 shooting vs. Ga. Southern. DEFENDER Michael Stevenson, 6-5, Sr., G, KSU - In 1-1 in 2002. Tyre Gathright, Jr., G, ST. AUG'S - Scored team-high week, had 20 points and 22 rebounds. 22 points in loss to Claflin. NA Eley also has worked as Hampton's offensive coor- COACH dinator and been an assistant in the Canadian Football Jay Butler, VA. UNION - Guidled Panthers to wins over Cheyney (85-47) and Bluefield State (79-66). League.