Alcorn State
2-1SWAC · Jack Spinks Stadium · 22,500 · 3,117 avg in 2026
LastW 53–51 vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff · Sat Sep 12 · Jaylon Tolbert 485 pass yds, 5 TD, 2 INT
Nextat North Alabama · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · Braly Municipal Stadium · first meeting on record · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 29 | #167 | #335 | — | Miles | W 56–7 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 1 | Sep 5 | #167 | #57 | +19.5✗ | @Southern Miss | L 3–49 142 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #181 | #252 | -8.5✗ | Arkansas-Pine Bluff (N) | W 53–51 | 2-1 | 1-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #171 | #192 | @North Alabama | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #172 | #211 | Texas Southern | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | @Grambling | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | Arkansas Baptist | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Prairie View A&M | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @Mississippi Valley State | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | Florida A&M | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | @Southern | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | Jackson State |
Advanced box score (EPA, success rate, explosiveness)▼
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | W 53–51 | — | — | — | +0.282 | 52.7% | 125.1% | One-score win |
| Sep 5 | @Southern Miss | L 3–49 | 223 | 5 | 28:39 | -0.128 | 21.3% | 164.7% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Aug 29 | Miles | W 56–7 | — | — | — | +0.425 | 54.3% | 135.3% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Season average (3 games) | 223 | 5.0 | +0.193 | 42.8% | 141.7% | ||||
Alcorn State is the Mississippi HBCU that won five black college national championships across three coaching eras and produced Hall of Fame quarterback Steve McNair — a program rebuilding under Cedric Thomas, searching for the next championship era.
The fanbase has seen Alcorn win national championships under three different coaches across five decades -- Casem in the '60s-'80s, Hopson in 2014 -- and knows the program is capable of reaching that…
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What it is like to watch them2025 · 5-7 · last season
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Alcorn State has won three of its last five.
Mixed. 7-3 over the last 10, and won the last one.
Next Sep 19
vs North Alabama · away
Outcome band · Alcorn State · 2026
Outcome band · Alcorn State · 2026Alcorn State's most likely season is 7-6 — a bowl game. The floor is 3-9; the ceiling is 10-3.
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
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Alcorn State is Mississippi's pioneering HBCU program — housed at the nation's first Black land-grant college — and a five-time black college national champion (1968, 1969, 1974, 1984, 2014) built by College Football Hall of Fame coach Marino Casem and defined by College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Steve McNair, the FCS's all-time total-offense leader. The 2026 offseason finds Cedric Thomas entering his third season trying to return the Braves to the top of the SWAC after a 5-7, 4-4 2025.
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Jaylon Tolbert: 488 yds · 5 TD vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Top 1% passing yards game since 2021. vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff (FCS) W 53-51.
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Jaylon Tolbert: 485 yds · 5 TD vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Top 1% passing yards game since 2021. vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff (FCS) W 53-51.
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