EAST GREENSBORO, North Carolina – North Carolina A&T football has reached new heights when it comes to national rankings. STATS FCS released its latest media poll on Monday and it had the Aggies ranked fourth in the country.
It is the Aggies highest ranking in school history surpassing last week’s No. 5 ranking and 1993’s No. 5 ranking after the Aggies started 6-0.
The American Football Coaches Association coaches poll kept N.C. A&T at No. 6 following the Aggies 45-6 win over Gardner-Webb Saturday night at BB&T Stadium. The Aggies have now appeared in the coaches poll 36 straight weeks.
N.C. A&T is off to a 3-0 start to bring the nation’s longest active winning streak to 15 games. Their win over Gardner-Webb was their 11th straight win at home as N.C. A&T has now won 18 of their last 19 at BB&T Stadium. The Aggies are again the No. 1 team in black college football for the 38th time in 59 weeks. N.C. A&T has not lost a football game in 653 days.
“I think we are doing a lot of things well and too many things not so well,” said N.C. A&T coach Sam Washington who is only the second person to win their first three games as Aggies head coach. “There is still a lot of work to be done but we’re in a good place. It’s much better being 3-0 than 0-3 and we all know that.
To be 3-0 and not have played a very good football game on all three phases is kind of exciting and kind of scary.”
The Aggies are off this week ahead of their non-conference game against Morgan State, 6 p.m., Saturday, September 22 at BB&T Stadium. Hampton’s departure from the conference left some schools with seven Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference games. Therefore, to assure each school plays seven conference games this season, there are some games that will not count as conference games.
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY AGGIES SPORTS INFORMATION
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