WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Two top-25 teams, a large stadium and favorable weather could add up to record-setting attendance for Saturday’s CIAA football championship game.
Jacquie Carpenter, the CIAA commissioner, has high hopes, saying “I’d like to think we could” set the record.
No. 9 Winston-Salem State will play No. 22 Virginia State at 1 p.m. at Bowman Gray Stadium, which seats about 15,000. Both teams are 9-1 and have not met since 2003. The attendance record for the title game is 11,562, set in 2006 when N.C. Central played Elizabeth City State in Durham.
“It’s exciting with two great teams in the game,” Carpenter said. “Virginia State with a first-year coach (Latrell Scott) who has turned it around so fast is amazing.”
The title game also has Division II playoff implications. WSSU is ranked No. 2 in Super Region One, and Virginia State is No. 6. The top six teams in each region will receive playoff berths.
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