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Cloture, not passage. #TheProtectCollegeSportsAct cleared its first floor test 74-24 on Tuesday. Here's what actually happened, and what it means for the #HBCU coalition we've been tracking since May 🧵
Data Driven HBCU retweeted
#SWACStats
Coach @27TBuck talked about penalties on the SWAC media call. I decided to do a deep dive.
Walk with me.
Southern is big winner is fewer penalty yards per game.
PV draws more flags than it commits (10.2 a game vs 8.2) still loses 10.4 yards a game. Costly penalties
Alabama A&M took over No. 1 in this week's #BlackCollegeFootballPoll. South Carolina State took over No. 1 in the #DataDrivenHBCUTop5 Computer Poll. Bethune-Cookman climbed into the top four of both after beating Jackson State.
The players behind the week got their due, too. North Carolina Central took four of five #MEAC weekly awards, with Gino Addison named both Offensive Player and Rookie of the Week. Bethune-Cookman's Stephen Sparrow and Tyler Jefferson and Texas Southern's Athean Renfro Jr. and Miguel Arana III swept the #SWAC honors.
Our Week 8 poll analysis, plus the MEAC and SWAC weekly award winners:
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Data Driven HBCU retweeted
If the Division II season ended Saturday, seven HBCUs would make the playoff field in Super Regions One and Two. The CIAA would send Virginia State, Virginia Union, and Bowie State, and the SIAC would send Kentucky State, Edward Waters, Benedict, and Central State.
Our projections:
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If the Division II season ended Saturday, seven HBCUs would make the playoff field in Super Regions One and Two. The CIAA would send Virginia State, Virginia Union, and Bowie State, and the SIAC would send Kentucky State, Edward Waters, Benedict, and Central State.
Our projections:
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Week 8 is in the books. Here are the latest and correct #DataDrivenHBCUTop5 computer rankings going into Week 9:
South Carolina State (6–2)
Alabama A&M (6–2)
Jackson State (6–2)
Bethune-Cookman (5–3)
Howard (4–4)
Next Tier: Prairie View A&M (4–5) and Morgan State (5–3).
View the full and accurate ranking for the #DataDrivenHBCUTop5 poll: datadrivenhbcu.com/dashboard…
EDIT: The graphic and list was not correct. The corrected graphic and list for the #DataDrivenHBCUTop5 will be posted ASAP.
Apologies for sharing the incorrect graphic.
Data Driven HBCU retweeted
Quick factual update: This didn't happen on Campus; this had nothing to do with the security & safety of the FAMU Campus. The actual FAMU tailgaters were safe & acting accordingly. In every city, a big event brings out the city, but "THE CITY" is not the HBCU they associate with.
Three Division I HBCU games were decided on the final play or the final minute in Week 8.
Bethune-Cookman scored with 40 seconds left to beat No. 1 Jackson State, and the Tigers missed a 49-yard field goal at the horn. Ben Chandler IV's 87-yard interception return ended Howard's overtime win at Morgan State. Miguel Arana's 46-yard field goal with one second left gave Texas Southern its first SWAC win.
Every result from Week 8:
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Two Division II HBCU games came down to the final minute in Week 8. Bowie State scored with 34 seconds left to hand Johnson C. Smith its first CIAA loss, and Kentucky State hit a 48-yard touchdown pass with 21 seconds left to stay atop the SIAC.
The SIAC race: Kentucky State leads 6-1, with Benedict, Central State, and Edward Waters a game back. In the CIAA, Virginia State and Virginia Union are still unbeaten. Our recap:
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Data Driven HBCU retweeted
It saddens me to hear Black children disparage HBCUs. A culture that equates whiteness with excellence has convinced too many of us that our own institutions are inherently less worthy. That belief says more about what we’ve been taught than what HBCUs have proven.
Data Driven HBCU retweeted
A live look at the Computer Poll as it computes these results:
#FCS Top 25 final:
Bethune-Cookman 24
No. 24 Jackson State 21
Bethune-Cookman improves to 3-1 in the SWAC. Stephen Sparrow totals 11 tackles and 2 TFLs
Data Driven HBCU retweeted
JSU Fans shouldn’t lose hope on the season. Week in, week out, the SWAC is incredibly tough and the strongest it’s been in years.
Low-key, AAMU and BCU are putting together compelling at-large bid resumes.
#NCCU entered Friday with a 0.7% chance of reaching the #CelebrationBowl, the lowest in the #MEAC. Then the Eagles went to Dover, DE, and beat Delaware State 31-12 behind 214 yards from Gino Addison.
Our recap:
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Data Driven HBCU retweeted
Yep!
And there’s a Norfolk State Athletics Faculty Member on the committee. I wrote about the potential implications for D2 HBCUs with aspirations to join the MEAC or SWAC.
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Division II HBCU football has 11 games on Saturday. Virginia Union and Johnson C. Smith will put their unbeaten CIAA records on the line, while Benedict and Central State hit the road in the SIAC race.
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Also on the board: Clark Atlanta at Edward Waters for Homecoming, Savannah State at SIAC leader Kentucky State, Tuskegee at Allen, Lane at Fort Valley State in Jeremy C. Patterson's first game as Lane's interim coach, plus Fayetteville State, Elizabeth City State, and Winston-Salem State on the road in the CIAA.
Every kickoff and where to watch are in the link above.
No. 1 Jackson State visits No. 8 Bethune-Cookman, with first-place status in the SWAC East on the line, and a Wildcats win gives them the head-to-head over the Tigers.
Meanwhile, four Homecomings are on the schedule: Florida A&M, Hampton, SC State, and Texas Southern, with Hampton playing on campus for the first time all season and Texas Southern taking its 99th Homecoming to Reliant Stadium.
Here's our Week 8 HBCU Football preview:
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"Usually, it's really cold up there, gloomy, very windy." Trei Oliver on playing in Dover, where NC Central opens MEAC play Friday night at Delaware State on ESPN2.
Our preview:
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Data Driven HBCU retweeted
Southern football coach Marshall Faulk reveals he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
