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The Bayou Classic is the largest HBCU football classic. [36] Big Easy Classic New Orleans, LA 2000 [37] Formerly an annual game that, since 2002, had featured Jackson State and Southern. It originally featured Southern and—unusually—an NCAA Division I-A school, Tulane. The event was canceled after the 2004 season. [37]
In 2022, it was announced HBOB selected Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama to be the first ever HBCU campus to host the in-person event in February 2023. [1] Since 2023, the HBOB has been moving to new locations. In 2025, HBOB will be held in the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. [2]
The classic is the largest HBCU event in the nation attracting nearly 200,000 participants. [3] The Alabama A&M Bulldogs lead the series with a record of 44–42–3 all-time (as of 2024). Other activities
Special games between two HBCUs have existed since the early 1900s, when Black people created their own spaces to exist The post HBCU classics are for the culture, not the competition appeared ...
Prior to that, there was the Pelican Bowl, which was held three times in the 1970s, and the Orange Blossom Classic, which would match up Florida A&M against another top HBCU program at the end of ...
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It is the best known annual game and rivalry in historically black college or university (HBCU) football and was nationally televised in the U.S. by NBC from 1991 to 2014. Beginning in 2015, it aired on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN); [ 4 ] after NBCSN shut down at the end of 2021, [ 5 ] the Bayou Classic returned to NBC.
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