Pending football slate at Grambling to include Northwestern State

GRAMBLING — Grambling will announce a 2008 football schedule, perhaps as early as today, that includes a new home-and-home deal with Northwestern State. That leaves at least one more non-conference date still to fill. GSU will open next season at Nevada.

“I’m hopeful I can release a schedule in the coming days,” said Grambling athletics director Troy Mathieu. “I’m just waiting on the actual contracts to get in.”

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GSU Tenantive Football Schedule 2008
Date Location

Aug. 30: at Nevada
Sept. 6: Alcorn State
Sept. 13: at Northwestern State
Sept. 20: Jackson State
Oct. 4: Prairie View A&M*
Oct. 11: at Alabama A&M
Oct. 18: Alabama State
Nov. 1: at Mississippi Valley
Nov. 8: Arkansas-Pine Bluff**
Nov. 15: at Texas Southern
Nov. 29: Southern***
Dec. 13: SWAC Championship Game

*-Cotton Bowl, Dallas
**-War Memorial Stadium, Little Rock, Ark.
***-Superdome, New Orleans
Bold - Home game