The Tennessee State Tigers football program represents

Tennessee State University Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tenness ...

in the sport of

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

. The Tigers compete in the

NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, is the second-highest level of college football in the United States, after the Football Bowl Subdivision. Sponsored by the National Collegiate Athleti ...

(FCS) as member of the

Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Cham ...

History

Championships

National championships

Conference championships

Bowl games

Division I-AA/FCS Playoffs results

The Tigers have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs six times with a record of 3–6.

College Football Hall of Fame

Alumni in the NFL

Over 100 Tennessee State alumni have played in the NFL, including: * Richard Dent * Onzy Elam * Joe Gilliam *

Mike Hegman Michael William Hegman (born January 17, 1953) is a former American football linebacker who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Tennessee State University. Early years ...

* Sylvester Hicks * Bennie Anderson * Claude Humphrey * Ed "Too Tall" Jones * Jim Kelly *

Greg Kindle Gregory Lamarr Kindle (born September 16, 1950) is a former American football offensive lineman who played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the ...

* Loaird McCreary * Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie * Harold Rice * Anthony Shelton * Jim Thaxton * Mike Jones *

Larry Kinnebrew Lawrence D. Kinnebrew (born June 11, 1960) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft. A 6ft1in, 258-pound running back from Tennessee State University, Ki ...

* Steve Moore * Herman Hunter * Gilbert Renfroe * Malcolm Taylor

Annual Classic

Southern Heritage Classic The Southern Heritage Classic presented by FedEx is an annual historically black college football game between the Golden Lions of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) and the Tigers of Tennessee State University. UAPB replaced the Jackso ...

References

External links

* {{Ohio Valley Conference football navbox American football teams established in 1916 1916 establishments in Tennessee