3/26/2005
BATON ROUGE -- The Southern University Department of Athletics is pleased to
formally announce the release of the 2005 football schedule. The 11-game schedule includes five home games
to be played in AW Mumford Stadium on the SU campus,
and also features five road games, and one away game in New Orleans. All five home games will
be broadcast locally by Cox Sports TV, and will be picked up nationally by
CSTV, giving SU SIX nationally televised games.
The Southern University Jaguars will open the season on
September 3rd, by traveling to Lake Charles, LA,
to take on the Cowboys of McNeese State. The Jaguars will travel to Itta Bena, MS for only the second time in the Pete Richardson era, to take on
the Delta Devils of Mississippi Valley State on September 10th. The following week, the Southern Jaguars will
host the 2005 home opener, as they will play the Panthers of Prairie View A&M, on September 17th. The last week of September will see the Jags
host perennial SIAC powerhouse, the Rams of Albany State University.
In October, the Southern Jaguars will begin the month by
facing off with one of their newest football rivals, Alabama State, in Mobile, AL, on October 1st, in the
annual Gulf Coast Classic. SU will then
return to AW Mumford Stadium to host three home games
in the month, first by hosting the Bulldogs of Alabama A&M University for
Southern University Homecoming 2005 on October 8th. The following weekend (October 15th), the Jags will host the Jackson State Tigers
in Baton Rouge for the first time since 1998.
Southern will then host on October 22nd,
the Braves of Alcorn State University for Senior Night. SU will have its first open date on the final
weekend of October.
The month of November will see the SU Jaguars on the road
on the 5th, as they travel to Houston to take on the Tigers of Texas Southern University, and in the
following weekend, traveling to Pine Bluff, Arkansas to take on the Golden Lions of Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Golden Lion
Stadium. Southern will then have its
second open weekend on November 19th,
before closing out the regular season in "Bayou Classic XXXII", their annual
rivalry game against the Tigers of Grambling State, to be played in the
Louisiana Superdome in New
Orleans on
November 26th. That game is televised nationally by NBC.
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 2005
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
September
3 McNeese State
Lake
Charles
, LA 7:00 pm
September
10 Mississippi
Valley
State
Itta
Bena, MS 5:00 pm
September
17 Prairie View
A&M
Baton
Rouge, LA 7:00 pm
September
24 Albany
State
Baton
Rouge, LA 7:00 pm
October
1 Alabama
State
Mobile,
AL 7:00 pm
October
8 Alabama
A&M
Baton
Rouge, LA 6:30 pm
(Homecoming)
October
15 Jackson
State
Baton
Rouge, LA 7:00 pm
October
22 Alcorn
State
Baton
Rouge, LA 7:00 pm
October
29 OPEN
November
5 Texas
Southern
Houston,
TX TBA
November
12 Arkansas-Pine
Bluff
Pine
Bluff, AR TBA
November
19 OPEN
November
26 Grambling
State New
Orleans, LA 1:00 pm
"BAYOU
CLASSIC XXXII"
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