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The Florida Classic is the annual college football rivalry game between Bethune–Cookman University and Florida A&M University. [1] The game is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group that also organizes the Pop-Tarts Bowl and Citrus Bowl.
The Wildcats (3-7, 2-5 SWAC) are on a two-game winning streak, defeating Alabama A&M 31-14 in Week 11. A win for FAMU will move its Florida Classic winning streak to three games while securing the ...
The Florida A&M football team closes out its 2023 regular season today with the annual Florida Classic against cross-state rival Bethune-Cookman.. No. 7 FAMU is 9-1 (7-0 in SWAC) and on an eight ...
The Florida Classic, known as ‘The Classic,' began in 1978. This Saturday will be the 42nd Classic meeting between the Football Championship Subdivision seventh-ranked FAMU and B-CU (no game ...
The game was played late in the season, with Florida A&M inviting another top black team as its opponent. [1] The game could be seen as a mythical " Black National Championship " game. [ 2 ] For example, the December 5, 1942, Afro American newspaper refers to the 1942 game as a national title game, as does at least one source for the 1945 game ...
Formerly an annual game between Florida A&M and Florida International. The game was formerly known as the FAMU/FIU Orange Blossom Classic and was canceled after the 1978 season but was revived in the 1990s. [21] [12] It originally featured Florida A&M against another HBCU school, but the recently revived version included—unusually—a ...
Florida A&M battled wet, soggy conditions to pull out the win. For Florida A&M, the third time was the charm. ... “He was MVP of the Florida Classic, and now he’s MVP of the SWAC Championship ...
The 1978 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the UMass Minutemen. The game was played on December 16, 1978, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The culminating game of the 1978 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Florida A&M, 35–28. [3]