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The Week that was and the Huge Weeks Ahead Last week of HBCU football was a week that sent waves through the MEAC and SWAC landscape, this week isn’t quite over and those waves have now impacted the world of FCS football and we’ve yet to get to the games. Last week we saw Celebration.
On Tuesday, tickets for The Celebration Bowl went on sale for the general public, but the teams still have work to do and games to win to have their tickets punched. North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, and Hampton are all unbeaten in the MEAC with crucial matchups still on the horizon. Over In the.
In week 3 we North Carolina A&T pick up FBS win number 2 for the MEAC, while conference foe Howard come crashing back down to reality and Norfolk State’s nightmare of a season only got worse against the defending National Champion. In the SWAC, we saw Jackson State travel to the house that Eddie Robinson.
Coming into 2017, the MEAC is looking to bounce back from a disappointing year as a conference. 2016 saw the conference have 9 of 11 members finish the season below .500 with North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central being the only 2 exceptions. The conference also went 0-fer in the post season with A&T.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see Eastern Washington’s star wideout Cooper Kupp as one of the best receivers at the FCS level, or dominating Sam Houston State defensive end P.J. Hall as a great pass rusher. It seems, in fact, that all anyone talks about in the FCS preseason is the painfully obvious..
