Prairie View A&M Set to Face Jackson State in 2025 SWAC Football Championship Game

The Annual HBCU Football and Recruitment Tour presented by the HBCU Campaign Fund (HCF) congratulates Head Coach T.C. Taylor and the JSU Tigers football team on clinching their second consecutive SWAC East Division Title with Saturday’s 27-21 home win over Alcorn State.

The victory confirms that the JSU Tigers have earned the rights to host the 2025 SWAC Football Championship Game presented by General Motors on Saturday, December 6, at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, where they will face the Prairie View A&M Panthers. The game is set to be broadcast live on ESPN2 at 1:00 pm CST.

It will mark the Panthers third appearance in the SWAC Football Championship game in the past five years. Prairie View A&M’s last conference title was in 2009.

The Annual HBCU Football and Recruitment Tour presented by the HBCU Campaign Fund will conclude its ninth leg of the tour in Jackson, Mississippi at the 2025 SWAC Football Championship game, following its final regular-season stop at the Bayou Classic in New Orleans this weekend.

tickets are now on-sale online and in-person at the stadium box office and the Lee E. Williams Athletics and Assembly Center Box Office on JSU campus. Tickets online are available by clicking here.

About the Annual HBCU Football and Recruitment Tour Presented by the HBCU Campaign Fund
The Annual HBCU Football and Recruitment Tour Presented by the HBCU Campaign Fund is an initiative that supports historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and football classics that feature HBCU football teams. The tour begins in September and goes through early December, kicking off with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Football Media Day, ending with the SWAC Football Championship game, and visiting various football classics and HBCU campuses. The Division of College Relations and Scholarships joins the tour on specific dates to assist high school students with choosing to attend an HBCU.

About the SWAC
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is considered one of the premier HBCU conferences in the country and currently ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of HBCU alumni playing with professional sports teams.

Current championship competition offered by the league includes competition for men in Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, and Tennis. 

Women’s competitions are offered in the sports of Basketball, Bowling, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, and Volleyball.
 
Follow the SWAC
For complete coverage of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, please follow the SWAC on social media at @TheSWAC on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or visit the official website of the SWAC at www.swac.org.