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The Sonic Boom of the South is the marching band of Jackson State University (JSU) located in Jackson, Mississippi, US.Its unique style and showmanship include the J5 drum majors, Prancing J-Settes, floating JSU, Tiger Run-On, the “Get Ready” entrance, and “The Series.”
The Jacksonville State Gamecocks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Jacksonville State University (JSU) located in the U.S. state of Alabama. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the Conference USA. Jacksonville State's first football team was fielded in 1904.
Jackson State University owns and operates Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium affectionately known as "The Vet". [23] The 60,492-seat stadium has been the home field of Jackson State football since 1970. [24] For many years, the stadium was the largest in Mississippi until 2016. [25]
Jackson College in 1889. Jackson State University developed from Natchez Seminary, founded October 23, 1877, in Natchez, Mississippi.The seminary was affiliated with the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, who established it "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states".
JSU's hiring of Deion Sanders as head coach in 2020 drew a great deal of attention to the Tiger program in general [11] and the JSU-SU series in particular. On October 23, 2022, ESPN 's College GameDay program announced that it would broadcast live from Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium on the morning of the game. [ 12 ]
The 2024 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson State University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were coached by second-year head coach T. C. Taylor and played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Jacksonville State Gamecocks are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Jacksonville State University located in Jacksonville, Alabama, United States.In January 2023, the university began phasing in a new identity, Jax State, for marketing and promotion purposes, while the institution retains its official name, Jacksonville State University.
Despite the commonly used name ("The Marching Southerners"), according to the JSU Manual of Style and Usage, Point 7, the official name of the band at Jacksonville State is simply "The Southerners": the "Marching" title only being applied to the Marching Ballerinas.