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Texas Southern Tigers football
American college football organization
American college football organization
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| TeamName | Texas Southern Tigers football |
| CurrentSeason | 2025 Texas Southern Tigers football team |
| Image | Texas Southern University box logo.png |
| ImageSize | 225 |
| HeadCoach | Cris Dishman |
| HeadCoachYear | 2nd |
| HCWins | 11 |
| HCLosses | 11 |
| Stadium | Shell Energy Stadium |
| StadCapacity | 22,000 |
| Conference | SWAC |
| ConfDivision | West |
| FirstYear | 1947; |
| Location | Houston, Texas |
| WebsiteName | tsusports.com |
| WebsiteURL | https://tsusports.com/index.aspx?path=football |
| ATWins | 336 |
| ATLosses | 444 |
| ATTies | 27 |
| BlackNatlTitles | 1952, 2010 |
| ConfTitles | MAA: 1952SWAC: 1956, 1968 |
| stadium_built | 2012 |
The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston. The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), a conference whose members are all HBCUs. In 2012, the Tigers moved into the new Shell Energy Stadium in East Downtown, built for the city's Major League Soccer team, the Houston Dynamo. It replaced Delmar Stadium as the primary home of Tiger football.
History
Classifications
- 1952–1972: NCAA College Division
- 1952–1969: NAIA
- 1970–1984: NAIA Division I
- 1973–1976: NCAA Division II
- 1977: NCAA Division I
- 1978–present: NCAA Division I-AA/FCS
Conference memberships
- 1947–1951: Independent
- 1952–1954: Midwest Athletic Association
- 1955–present: Southwestern Athletic Conference
Football classics
Labor Day Classic
The Tigers compete against the Panthers of Prairie View A&M in the Labor Day Classic for the Durley-Nicks Trophy. The popular football rivalry began in 1946 but the classic was created in 1985.
TV broadcasting
In July 2017, Texas Southern renewed their deal with AT&T SportsNet (formerly ROOT Sports Southwest) to televise all home football games. The cable channel reaches over 13 million households.
Championships
National
| 2010 | Black college national | Johnnie Cole | 9–3 | SWAC |
|---|
Conference championships
| † Denotes co-champions * Denotes vacated title |
|---|
Alumni in the NFL
Over 60 Texas Southern alumni have played in the NFL or AFL, including:
- Michael Strahan°°
- Tray Walker
- Julius Adams
- Melvin Baker
- Ken Burrough
- Greg Briggs
- Ernie Calloway
- Arthur Cox
- John Douglas
- James Ford
- Harold Hart
- W. K. Hicks
- Winston Hill°°
- Ernie Holmes
- Kevin Johnson
- Brett Maxie
- Will Moore
- Cortez Hankton
- Jim Sorey
- John White
- Jim Young
- Darvin Kidsy
- Joseph Rogers
- Oliver Celestine
- Andy Olemgbe
- Joey Jamison °° Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
2012 NCAA sanctions
In October 2012, the NCAA found Texas Southern University guilty of repeated rules violations in 13 sports over a seven-year period from 2005 to 2012. The most serious violations occurred within the football and men's basketball programs, involving academic fraud, illicit benefits given to student athletes, lying on the part of coaches, and lying to the NCAA about previously self-imposed sanctions.
Prior to the NCAA's verdict, the school had taken numerous corrective measures—including the April 2011 firing of football coach Johnnie Cole (2010 SWAC Football Coach of the Year) and vacating every game that the Tiger football team had won from 2006 to 2010 - including the 2010 SWAC Championship, their first championship in 42 years.
The NCAA banned TSU's football team from the 2013 and 2014 postseason.
Future non-conference opponents
Announced schedules as of January 22, 2026
References
References
- (July 25, 2017). "AT&T SportsNet set to broadcast TSU home football games".
- "Texas Southern Players/Alumni - Pro-Football-Reference.com".
- (26 October 2012). "NCAA".
- "NCAA imposes postseason bans for Texas Southern". [[CBSSports.com]].
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/sports/ncaa-cites-texas-southern-for-violations-in-13-sports.html?_r=0 Texas Southern Is Penalized By the N.C.A.A.] [[The New York Times]], 2012-10-09.
- "Future Texas Southern Tigers Football Schedules". FBSchedules.com.
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