Jonathan Billups weighs 340 pounds and stands 6 feet 1 inches tall. And he's the smaller of Jackson State's two defensive tackles. "We pride ourselves in being big," said fellow tackle Luis McLeod, who measures 6-3, 360. McLeod and Billups - if… more »

Coaches vote Bethune-Cookman tops in Boxtorow FCS HBCU Coaches Poll Defending HBCU champion Bethune-Cookman has been tabbed as the top FCS HBCU team by the coaches in the Boxtorow HBCU FCS preseason Coaches Top 10 Poll. The Wildcats and head coach… more »

Jackson State coach Rick Comegy believes he's going to have a good football team this season. And he's not afraid to say so. "We've got guys who are mature and we've got guys who can play ball," said Comegy, who enters his fifth season with the Tiger… more »

Doug Williams returned to his alma mater, Grambling State, for a second stint as head football coach earlier this year to find the Southwestern Athletic Conference seemingly encountering one problem after another. "If we keep doing business the way… more »

A six-member crew from ESPN spent three days in Jackson last week filming a segment on Jackson State quarterback Casey Therriault that included a mock rain storm at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. The segment on Therriault will air this fall o… more »

Jackson State University has named a seasoned athletics director and college administrator as its new athletics director. Vivian Fuller, 56, will take the helm of Jackson State’s athletics program later this summer, just in time for the start of JSU’… more »

In this week’s edition of Centennial Bites, JSUTIGERS.com highlights some of the unknown accomplishments of Jackson State University’s most winningest former football Head Coach W.C. Gorden. Hometown: Nashville, Tenn. College: Tennessee State Univer… more »

It's become a tradition for Charles Bishop. As soon as Jackson State releases its football schedule each year, he picks up the phone, dials a Birmingham hotel and books his room for the weekend of the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship foo… more »

The Southwestern Athletic Conference athletic directors and senior women administrators voted 8-2 Wednesday to ban the Jackson State and Southern University football teams from this season’s conference championship game, a source with knowledge of the s… more »

One of Jackson State's home football games this season will be moved to Thursday night to accommodate an ESPNU telecast, JSU confirmed this week. The school doesn't know yet which game will be chosen for the prime time spot, likely to kick off at 6:3… more »

The Jackson State University football team might be banned from competing in the Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship Game for the next two years because of poor academic numbers. For a third straight year, the Tigers' football program has f… more »

NCAA President Mark Emmert expects athletes at historically black colleges and universities to make the grade — and he's willing to help after seeing the results of the latest Academic Progress Rates. The NCAA banned Jackson State and Southern from p… more »

Football coach Rick Comegy is hoping two of last season's starters - including one all-conference player - will be with Jackson State when it starts fall practice. Tight end Renty Rollins and punter Reed Gallagher were held out of spring drills to fo… more »

A Grand Valley State (D-II) fan 'tells it like it is' about non-FBS schools. What happened along the way? Back in the "Good ole' days," we saw small schools being held in, actually, high regard when it came to college football. Grambling was respe… more »

At this time next year, Rick Comegy's contract as the Jackson State football coach would end in about a month. The 57-year-old Comegy, who just finished his fifth season with the Tigers, is heading into the last year of his contract. Comegy said t… more »