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HBCU Football Left Out Of FCS Postseason Play

Kendrick Marshall by Kendrick Marshall
November 22, 2015
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For the first time in two decades, there won’t be an HBCU football program in the FCS postseason.

The 24-team field revealed Sunday did not include a school from the MEAC, SWAC or Ohio Valley’s Tennessee State.

Entering play Saturday, there was an outside chance that as many as two HBCU schools — Bethune-Cookman and Prairie View — could receive at-large bids to the postseason.

Prairie View (8-2) beat Jackson State convincingly 56-14 and Bethune-Cookman (9-2) topped Florida A&M 35-14.

Both teams, however, were passed over by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee.

Prairie View first-year head coach Willie Simmons was not pleased with the Panthers being left out of the playoff picture.

“The Good Lord constantly shows us that our work is NEVER done,” Simmons wrote on Facebook. “With a 9-2 record (8-1 conference) and only one loss to an FCS opponent, Prairie View A&M got shunned from the FCS playoffs for multiple 4 loss and even a 5 loss team!!! My players have nothing to hang their heads about! I’m blessed to be their coach!!!”

With MEAC co-champion North Carolina A&T representing the conference in the Celebration Bowl against the SWAC champion, it took the automatic bid out of the equation.

The last time the FCS playoff field was without an HBCU team was 1991.

 

Tags: Bethune-CookmanPrairie View
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Kendrick Marshall is an award-winning journalist and a graduate of Jackson State University.

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Comments 4

  1. Julius Coxswain says:
    10 years ago

    I wanted to see one or two HBCUs in the playoffs, but BCU and The View both have week schedules. All the at-large teams have better schedules and better out of conference wins. Gotta stop playing DII schools and start beating I-AA schools from traditionally strong conferences.

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  2. Errol Taylor says:
    10 years ago

    Exactly re: schedules. SWAC and MEAC both need to schedule tough FCS (and FBS to the extent they will play) opponents whenever possible. And why play this Celebration Bowl at all? If the two best teams from these conferences are voided from the automatic bid, why even participate in the process?

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  3. Drew says:
    10 years ago

    Let me fix this for you:

    HBCU Football Left Out Of FCS Postseason Play after MEAC and SWAC decide to opt out and do a bowl game.

    Reply
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