boxtorow.com After one of the most memorable seasons in HBCU football and FCS for that matter, there is no surprise that the Grambling State Tigers sit atop the BOXTOROW Coaches Poll, which was released on Monday. All 22 coaches voted and the Tigers received 18 first-place votes. The Tigers opened the 2016 season with a
Grambling head football coach Broderick Fobbs, Winston-Salem State head football coach Kienus Boulware, and North Carolina Central head football coach Jerry Mack.
The Prairie View A&M Panthers have had good back-to-back seasons in 2015 and 2016. With a 7-4, record and only two SWAC loses, the Panthers still only finished third being champion Grambling and Southern, both of whom they lost to. Is this the year Willie Simmons and his Panthers get over the hump? Host Donal
The Southern Jaguars look to return to the SWAC championship game for the first time since 2014. The Jaguars were very good in 2016, going 8-3, 8-1 in the SWAC. The Jaguars rival Grambling went undefeated in conference play and represented the Western Division in the championship game, won the SWAC championship game and the
Jackson State managed only three wins in Tony Hughes first season as head football coach of the Tigers. Hughes and staff signed 34 players to its 2017 recruiting class which BOXTOROW ranked third. Will any of those guys have an impact? How do the Tigers move on post Javancy Jones? Host Donal Ware breaks it
When things are going well with Grambling football, it means things are going well in HBCU football. The Tigers were last year’s HBCU national champions and enter 2017 with BOXTOROW All-America quarterback DeVante Kincade as their top returning player. But GSU and head coach Broderick Fobbs also had a busy offseason, signing a number of
The Tennessee State Tigers had a solid 2016 campaign with a 7-4 record and were probably one win away from making the FCS Playoffs. Rod Reed, a graduate of TSU, enters his eighth season as the head coach and has had the No. 1 recruiting HBCU FCS recruiting class as ranked by BOXTOROW, the last
Biddle as it was once called played Livingstone in the first football game between HBCUs on December 27, 1892. One hundred twenty-five years later, Johnson C. Smith, as it is now called, has only garnered one CIAA championship in 1969. Is 2017 the year for the Golden Bulls? Host Donal Ware takes a look at
Host Donal Ware talks with Saint Augustine’s head football coach Tim Chavous about 2016 and the expectations for the Falcons in 2017.
Reginald Byarse, Jr. is the interim head football coach at Lincoln (Pa.) and he sits down with Donal Ware to discuss trying to turn around the program.