LUT WILLIAMSBCSP Editor
The 2026 black football season will have a Week Zero game played this weekend. It just 6p arrives a week later than usual and coincides 6pm with 27 other games.
The 2026 Week Zero game – usually Stream 6p staged a week before a full schedule of games Atlanta’s Center Parc Stadium at 7:30 p.m. on ABC. It pits the MEAC’s Howard Bison vs. the 12p1p SWAC’s Alabama A&M Bulldogs.
While that game has plenty of intrigue with second-year A&M head coach Sam Shade facing off against new Howard head coach and former quarterback Ted White, there’s plenty more on the menu.
There is another SWAC vs. MEAC game in Houston where North Carolina Central of the MEAC visits the SWAC’s Texas Southern. The game will be streamed on HBCUGo.tv at 6 p.m CST.
Nine other games are interconference battles between black conference teams – four SWAC vs. SIAC tussles, three with SIAC teams meeting CIAA foes, one CIAA vs. MEAC match-up and one matching SIAC and MEAC teams.