North Carolina Central Football Declared Black College National Champions
(Pittsburgh, PA - December 21, 2006) North Carolina Central University has been declared the 2006 Sheridan Broadcasting Network Black College Football National Champions, the school's first such title in the 33 years SBN Sports Network has conducted the poll.
NCCU, led by fourth-year head coach Rod Broadway, captured its second consecutive Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Football Championship with a perfect 11-0 record. Along the way, the Eagles defeated two other teams ranked in the SBN Top 10 (Elizabeth City State University, Albany State University) and collected the school's first-ever gridiron victory over a Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) opponent with a convincing road victory over Division I-AA power Southern University. NCCU earned a No. 1 ranking in the final NCAA Division II Southeast Region poll and ended its historic season in the second round of the NCAA playoffs.
Among SBN's national panel of 30 pollsters, NCCU claimed 21 first place votes for a total of 287 points, beating out last year's co-champion Hampton University with 279 points and nine first place votes.
NCCU will officially be crowned national champions at the 33rd Annual SBN Sports Black College All-American Awards Banquet on Feb. 17, 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia. American Urban Radio Networks will also be honoring a 24-member All-American Team.
The SBN Sports Network is a division of American Urban Radio Networks, the largest Black-owned radio network company in the country.
