Texas Southern Tigers football

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| TeamName = Texas Southern Tigers football

| CurrentSeason = 2024 Texas Southern Tigers football team

| Image = Texas Southern University box logo.png

| ImageSize = 225

| HeadCoach = Cris Dishman

| HeadCoachYear = 2nd

| HCWins = 5

| HCLosses = 6

| Stadium = Shell Energy Stadium

| StadCapacity = 22,000

| StadSurface = Natural grass

| Conference = SWAC

| ConfDivision = West

| FirstYear = 1947; {{Time ago|1947}}

| Location = Houston, Texas

| WebsiteName = tsusports.com

| WebsiteURL = https://tsusports.com/index.aspx?path=football

| ATWins = 330

| ATLosses = 439

| ATTies = 27

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| NatlTitles = 2 (black college): 1952, 2010

| ConfTitles = 3 (1 MAA, 2 SWAC)

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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

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=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.{{cite web|url=http://www.tsusports.com/news/2017/7/25/at-t-sportsnet-set-to-broadcast-tsu-home-football-games.aspx|title=AT&T SportsNet set to broadcast TSU home football games|website=Texas Southern University}}

Championships

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=National=

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1952	Black college national	Alexander Durley	10–0–1	MWAA
2010	Black college national	Johnnie Cole	9–3	SWAC

=Conference championships=

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align="center" \| 1952†	Midwest Athletic Association	Alexander Durley	10–0–1	2–0–1
align="center" \| 1956	Southwestern Athletic Conference	Alexander Durley	9–2	5–1
align="center" \| 1968†	Southwestern Athletic Conference	Clifford Paul	6–4	6–1
align="center" \| 2010*	Southwestern Athletic Conference	Johnnie Cole	9–3	8–1
align="center" \| colspan=3 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle\|Texas Southern Tigers\|border=2\|color=white}}" \| Total conference championships: \| colspan=2 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle\|Texas Southern Tigers\|border=2\|color=white}}" \| 3 (1 vacated)
colspan=7 \| † Denotes co-champions * Denotes vacated title

Alumni in the NFL

Over 60 Texas Southern alumni have played in the NFL or AFL,{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/colleges/texasso/|title=Texas Southern Players/Alumni - Pro-Football-Reference.com|website=Pro-Football-Reference.com}} including:

°° 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/pdfs/2012/texas+southern+public+infractions+report|title=NCAA|date=26 October 2012|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026124240/http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/pdfs/2012/texas+southern+public+infractions+report|archive-date=26 October 2012}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/20525050/ncaa-imposes-postseason-bans-for-texas-southern |title=NCAA imposes postseason bans for Texas Southern |work=CBSSports.com |access-date=2012-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520122658/http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/20525050/ncaa-imposes-postseason-bans-for-texas-southern |archive-date=May 20, 2013}}

The NCAA banned TSU's football team from the 2013 and 2014 postseason.[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 non-conference opponents

Announced schedules as of February 27, 2025{{cite web|title=Future Texas Southern Tigers Football Schedules|publisher=FBSchedules.com|url=https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/texas-southern/|access-date=February 27, 2025}}

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