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FAMU Game Airs On ESPNU At 7:30 Thursday
Alcorn State And Tuskegee Top HBCU Polls
The second full week of HBCU football action finds the Braves of Alcorn State tak- ing over the top FCS position while Tuskegee’s Golden Tigers solidify their ranking on top of the DivisionII/NAIA HSRN Football Polls.
In the Division I FCS poll, Alcorn State bounced back from a season opening loss to Georgia Tech to knock off SWAC East rival Alabama State, 31-14, in Montgomery to jump over North Carolina A&T and South Carolina State into the top position. Ten- nessee State climbed into sec- ond place following its Southern Heritage Classic win over Jackson State. N.C. A&T, Bethune-Cookman and S.C.
Players for Tuskegee and Alcorn lines up against Alabama A&M last week.
State round out the FCS top five.
In Division II, Tuskegee re- mained on top of a group whose rankings remained rel- atively steady from week 1. The Golden Tigers knocked off Albany State, 27-14 in the
White Water Classic to im- prove to 2-0 on the season. Four CIAA teams, Virginia Union, Virginia State, Eliza- beth City State and Living- stone ) complete the top five among Division II and NAIA competitors.
The Florida A&M Rattlers (0-2, 0-0 MEAC) look to re- bound this week from two opening season out-of-confer- ence losses against the Bull- dogs of South Carolina State (1-1, 0-0 MEAC). The game could be a preview of what is to come in the MEAC this season, as Oliver "Buddy" Pugh and Alex Wood meet for the first
time as head coaches within the same conference.
The special Thursday night game will be broadcasted on ESPNU at 7:30 p.m. from Oliver C. Dawson Stadium in Orangeburg, S.C.
Check back here at Gameday Central for updates on all in- formation leading up to Thurs- day’s game.
FAMU and SCSU to air on ESPNU
Bethune Faces Lane College Saturday; WR Named MEAC Player Of The Week
After a career day at Gram- bling State over the weekend, Bethune-Cookman redshirt sophomore receiver Jawill Davis was selected as the Mid- Eastern Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week for the period of September 14- 20.
Davis, a redshirts sopho- more from Miami, hauled in a career-best eight catches for a career-high 199 yards and two touchdowns in a come-from- behind win for the Wildcats over Grambling State.
Bethune-Cookman returns to action Saturday, Sept. 19, as the Wildcats host Lane College
JAWILL DAVIS
for the first game of the 2015 campaign inside Municipal Stadium at Larry Kelly Field aka “The Cage”.
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Hampton Coach And MEAC Officiating Crew Reprimanded
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has disci- plined the football officiating crew working the Richmond- Hampton game and issued a letter of reprimand to Hamp- ton head football coach Con- nell Maynor.
The MEAC officials were dis- ciplined following an evalua- tion of video by the Coordinator of Football Offi- cials which determined that the officials did not consistently maintain game control and lacked the appropriate judge- ment on several calls.
Maynor has received a letter of reprimand and has been fined by the MEAC for his pub- lic comments concerning offici- ating following the game on Saturday.
Maynor violated the
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MEAC’s bylaw on criticizing of- ficials which states that mem- bers of the coaching staff, student-athletes, or other rep- resentatives of participating in- stitutions shall not make public statements critical of officiating in any MEAC contests or events.
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