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 ofContinue Reading →

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 lastContinue Reading →

Fayetteville State has played for what essentially has amounted to the CIAA Southern Division championship for the last four years. The division promises to be tougher in 2017. Can the Broncos keep pace? Host Donal Ware breaks down the Broncos.

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 atContinue Reading →

The first football game played between HBCUs was Biddle (now Johnson C. Smith ) against Livingstone in Salisbury, NC on December 27, 1892. Host Donal Ware talks with Livingstone fourth-year head coach Daryl Williams and previews the 2017 season.

We stay in the CIAA southern Division and take a look at two-time defending CIAA champion Winston-Salem State. Fourth-year head coach Kienus Boulware gives the scoop to Donal Ware.

The Shaw Bears went 2-8 last year, but second year head coach Adrian Jones feels confident about the Bears chances at competing for the CIAA championship in 2017.

Host Donal Ware talks with Saint Augustine’s head football coach Tim Chavous about 2016 and the expectations for the Falcons in 2017.

Happy 4th of July! We are working today here at BOXTOROW and are glad to bring you a look at the upcoming season for Elizabeth City State. Second year head coach Earnest Wilson talks about last year’s somewhat pleasantly surprising 5-5 season and the expectation for 2017. #HBCU125

Chowan had a solid 2016 season. What are the expectations for 2017 with so many key loses? Donal Ware breaks it down.