Author Archives: Donal Ware

With Jackson State’s 26-23 loss Saturday to Grambling State, the Winston-Salem State Rams are the new No. 1 in the Boxtorow National HBCU Football Power Ranking media poll, while the Alabama A&M Bulldogs are the top team in the coaches’ poll. This marks the first time in the history of either poll that Winston-Salem State or […]

With previous No. 1 Alabama State’s loss to Alabama A&M on Oct. 29, Jackson State takes the top spot in the Boxtorow National HBCU Football weekly Power Rankings. The Tigers received 14 of the 18 first places votes in the media poll and 10 of 13 in the coaches’ poll. In the media poll, the […]

In a week where 9 HBCU football teams had byes and two of the top 10 teams lost, the Alabama State Hornets received all but one first-place vote in the Boxtorow National HBCU Football media and coaches polls. Alabama State received 22 of 23 first-place votes from the media and received all 15 first place […]

For the third-straight week the Alabama State Hornets hold the No. 1 spot in the Boxtorow National HBCU media and coaches’ football power ranking polls. Alabama State received 19 of 23 first-place votes from the media and received 11-of 13 first-place votes from the coaches. In the media poll spots No. 2 through No. 5 […]

For the first time in the history of the Boxtorow HBCU Football Top-10 media and coaches’ power ranking polls, the Alabama State Hornets are on top. The Hornets were ranked No. 3 in last week’s media poll and No. 2 in the coaches polls, but with the Norfolk State Spartans victory over last week’s No. […]

South Carolina State is once again the undisputed No. 1 team in HBCU Football. The Bulldogs were No. 1 in last week’s media poll and No. 2 in the coaches’ poll, but with Jackson State’s 21-14 loss to Alabama State, the Bulldogs moved to the top spot in the coaches’ poll. South Carolina State received […]

With its 38-21 loss to Big Ten Conference opponent Indiana University on Sept. 17, the South Carolina State Bulldogs remain No. 1 in the Boxtorow Historically Black College/University Football Power Rankings’ media poll.  But the coaches ranked it a little differently.  Couple SCSU’s loss and the Jackson State University Tigers’ 28-24 victory over Southern University, and […]

After its resounding 63-14 defeat of Prairie View A&M on national television in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference/Southwestern Athletic Conference Challenge on Sept. 4, Bethune-Cookman College was voted No. 1 in the Boxtorow Historically Black College/University football media and coaches’ power ranking polls.  The BCC Wildcats pick up where they left off a year ago when […]

Defending historically Black college/university champion Bethune-Cookman has been tabbed as the top Football Championship Subdivision HBCU team by the coaches in the Boxtorow HBCU FCS preseason Coaches Top-10 Poll. The Wildcats and head coach Brian Jenkins, who was named Boxtorow National Coach of the Year in 2010, received nine of 16 first place votes. The Wildcats […]