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2017 Grambling State Tigers Football Team
The 2017 Grambling State Tigers football team represented Grambling State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by fourth-year head coach Broderick Fobbs and played their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Tigers finished the season 11–2, 7–0 in SWAC play to win the West Division. They defeated Alcorn State in the SWAC Championship Game, receiving the conference's bid to the Celebration Bowl where they lost to North Carolina A&T. Preseason The Tigers were picked to finish first in the West Division. Schedule Ranking movements References {{Southwestern Athletic Conference football champions Grambling State Grambling State Tigers football seasons Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons Grambling State Tigers football The Grambling State Tigers are the college football team representing the ...
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Broderick Fobbs
Broderick Lee Fobbs (born August 2, 1974) is an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Grambling State University from 2014 to 2021. After having served as an assistant coach at several other schools, on December 4, 2013, Fobbs was introduced as head coach of the Tigers The tiger (''Panthera tigris'') is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus ''Panthera''. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. An apex predator, it primarily preys on un .... Head coaching record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fobbs, Broderick 1974 births Living people African-American coaches of American football American football running backs Grambling State Tigers football coaches Grambling State Tigers football players Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football coaches McNeese Cowboys football coaches Northwestern State Demons football coaches Southern Miss Golden Eagles football coaches High sc ...
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2017 Jackson State Tigers Football Team
The 2017 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by second-year head coach Tony Hughes and played their home games at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi as members of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). They finished the season 3–8, 3–4 in SWAC play to finish in fourth place in the East Division. Schedule *SourceSchedule/small> Game summaries At TCU vs Tennessee State At Grambling State Arkansas–Pine Bluff At Prairie View A&M vs Tuskegee Southern At Mississippi Valley State Alabama State At Alabama A&M Alcorn State References {{Jackson State Tigers football navbox Jackson State Jackson State Tigers football seasons Jackson State Tigers football The Jackson State Tigers football team represents Jackson State University in college football at the NCAA Division I ...
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2017 Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions Football Team
The 2017 Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team represented the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Golden Lions were led by 10th-year head coach Monte Coleman and played their home games at Golden Lion Stadium in Pine Bluff, Arkansas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in t ... (SWAC). The Golden Lions finished the season 2–9, 1–6 in SWAC play to finish in last place in the West Division. On November 20, head coach Monte Coleman was fired. He finished at APBU with a ten-year record of 40–71. Preseason The Golden Lions were picked to finish in last place in the West Division. Schedule References {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 Arkansas- ...
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USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, Infographic, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022, a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019, and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million, ''USA Today'' is ranked as the first by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States. It has been shown to maintain a generally center-left audience, in regards to political persuasion. ''US ...
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2017 Texas Southern Tigers Football Team
The 2017 Texas Southern Tigers football team represented Texas Southern University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by second-year head coach Michael Haywood and played their home games at a BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Tigers finished the season 2–9, 2–5 in SWAC play to finish in fourth place in the West Division. Preseason The Tigers were picked to finish in fourth place in the West Division. Schedule : * Games will air on a tape delayed basis Game summaries at Florida A&M Houston Baptist at Alabama A&M Alcorn State at Kennesaw State Alabama State at Grambling State at Mississippi Valley State Southern vs Arkansas–Pine Bluff Prairie View A&M References {{Texas Southern Tigers football navbox Texas Southern Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black ...
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State Fair Classic
The State Fair Classic (formerly known as the Southwest Airlines State Fair Classic, for sponsorship purposes) is an annual college football game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Prairie View A&M University Panthers of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The game is played on a neutral site at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas during the State Fair of Texas. The game often occurs the weekend before the Red River Showdown game; the Heart of Dallas Classic took place on the first weekend of the 2013 fair, and the State Fair Football Showdown took place on the third weekends of the 2018 and 2019 fairs, featuring SWAC competitors Southern and Texas Southern. History Background The State Fair Classic, held annually at the Cotton Bowl, began in 1925 featuring the Wiley College Wildcats and Langston University Lions. The first game was played on Monday, October 19, 1925 and resulted in a 0–0 tie with neither team scoring before a crowd of ...
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Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and County seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County with portions extending into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link ...
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Cotton Bowl (stadium)
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, United States. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it is on the site of the State Fair of Texas, known as Fair Park. The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual college football post-season bowl game known as the Cotton Bowl Classic, for which the stadium is named. Starting on New Year's Day 1937, it hosted the first 73 editions of the game, through January 2009; the game was moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington in January 2010. The stadium also hosts the Red River Showdown, the annual college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns, and the First Responder Bowl. The stadium has been home to many football teams over the years, including: SMU Mustangs (NCAA), Dallas Cowboys ( NFL; 1960–1971), Dallas Texans (NFL) (1952), Dallas Texans (AFL; 1960–1962), and soccer teams, the Dallas Tornado (NASL; 1967–1968), and FC Dallas (MLS; as the Dallas Burn 1996–2004, as FC Dallas 2005 ...
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2017 Prairie View A&M Panthers Football Team
The 2017 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team represented Prairie View A&M University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Panthers were led by third-year head coach Willie Simmons and played their home games at Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field in Prairie View, Texas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in t ... (SWAC). The Panthers finished the season 6–5, 4–3 in SWAC play to finish in third place in the West Division. On December 9, head coach Willie Simmons resigned to become the head coach at Florida A&M He finished at PVA&M with a three-year record of 21–11. Preseason The Panthers were picked to finish in third place in the West Division. Schedule References { ...
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WMAQ-TV
WMAQ-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo outlet WSNS-TV (channel 44); it is also sister to regional sports network NBC Sports Chicago. WMAQ-TV and WSNS-TV share studios at the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood and share transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower in the Chicago Loop. History Early years (1948–1964) The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles. WNBQ initially broadcast a minimum of two hours of programming per day. The station originally pr ...
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Chicago
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Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924 and reconstructed in 2003, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) since 1971, as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1998 to 2005 and since 2020. The stadium has a football capacity of 61,500, making it the smallest stadium in the NFL. Soldier Field is also the oldest stadium in both the NFL and MLS. The stadium's interior was rebuilt as part of a major renovation project in 2002, which modernized the facility but lowered its seating capacity, eventually causing it to be delisted as a National Historic Landmark in 2006. Soldier Field has served as the home venue for a number of other sports teams in its history, including the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL and University of Notre Dame football. It hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, and multiple CONCACAF Gold ...
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