Bayou Classic
Bayou Classic:
The Showplace of Black College Football
The Bayou Classic debuted in 1974 in New Orleans’ Tulane Stadium before 76,753 fans who saw Grambling State defeat Southern University, 21-0. As the classic expanded over the years, they left Tulane Stadium for the larger Louisiana Superdome and resumed their string of consecutive sellout crowds, gaining a national audience when NBC began annual telecasts in 1974. They have met 37 times with Grambling holding a one-game edge. Renamed the State Farm Bayou Classic, it continues to be one of the most popular sporting events in college football. They continue to bring the excitement of black college football competition, and the highly entertaining Battle of the Bands, featuring two of the best in the land. It is the only black college football classic, and the only non-FBS college football game, to air regularly on a nationwide broadcast television network.
Bayou Classic Record
1974 Grambling** 21, Southern 0
1975 Grambling**33, Southern* 17
1976 Grambling 10, Southern 2
1977 Grambling**55, Southern 20
1978 Grambling*28, Southern 15
1979 Southern 14, Grambling 7
1980 Grambling**43, Southern 6
1981 Southern 51, Grambling 20
1982 Southern 22, Grambling 17
1983 Grambling 24, Southern 10
1984 Grambling 31, Southern 29
1985 Grambling*29, Southern 12
1986 Grambling 30, Southern 3
1987 Southern 27, Grambling 21
1988 Southern 10, Grambling 3
1989 Grambling* 44, Southern 30
1990 Grambling 25, Southern 13
1991 Southern 31, Grambling 30
1992 Grambling** 30, Southern 27
1993 Southern 31**, Grambling 13
1994 Southern 34, Grambling*7
1995 Southern** 30, Grambling 14
1996 Southern 17, Grambling 12
1997 Southern** 30, Grambling 7
1998 Southern* 26, Grambling 14
1999 Southern* 37, Grambling 31
2000 Southern 33, Grambling* 29
2001 Grambling**30, Southern 20
2002 Southern 48, Grambling**24
2003 Southern** 44, Grambling 41
2004 Grambling 24, Southern 13
2005 Grambling**50, Southern 35
2006 Southern 21, Grambling 17
2007 Southern 22, Grambling 13
2008 Grambling**29, Southern 14
2009 Grambling 31, Southern 13
2010 Grambling* 38, Southern 17
*=SWAC Champions
**=Black College National
Champions
(Top Left) Grambling wide receiver Nate Singleton tries to elude Southern defensive backs Jerry Wilson and Malik Boyd (Top Right) Grambling’s Walter Dean breaks a long gain as Jerry Wilson and Jimmy Conner zero in (Bottom Left) Southern’s “Human Juke Box” strutting their stuff (Bottom Right) Grambling State dazzles in a halftime thriller.
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