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Jackson State vs North Carolina Central Cricket Celebration Bowl Prediction Game Preview
Jackson State vs North Carolina Central prediction, recreation preview, odds, learn how to watch. Cricket Celebration Bowl, Saturday, December 17
Jackson State vs North Carolina Central Cricket Celebration Bowl Prediction Sport Preview
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Jackson State vs North Carolina Central How To Watch
Date: Saturday, December 17
Sport Time: 12:00 ET
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA
How To Watch: ABC
Document: Jackson State (12-0), North Carolina Central (9-2)
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Jackson State vs North Carolina Central Cricket Celebration Bowl 5 Issues To Know
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– Coach Prime has yet one more recreation at Jackson State. Deion Sanders has cranked it up as the brand new head coach at Colorado, immediately making it one of many hottest applications in school soccer – at the least in terms of the eye together with the curiosity from potential transfers. It’ll be TC Taylor’s job as soon as that is over, however first …
– Sanders has some unfinished enterprise. Final yr’s Jackson State workforce acquired to the Celebration Bowl with a high-powered offense together with an 11-1 report and an entire lot of swagger. Oliver Pough’s South Carolina State workforce had different concepts on the best way to a dominant 31-10 win. This time round, Sanders and his Tigers try to finis off an ideal season.
– This time round it’s North Carolina Central that’s attempting to take down the would possibly Jackson State workforce. It misplaced two early video games – together with a 26-24 loss to South Carolina State – earlier than discovering its footing on the best way to a robust 9-2 season and the MEAC title.
– North Carolina Central gained two Black School Division II nationwide titles within the mid-2000s – and break up one in 1954 – earlier than making the transfer as much as the MEAC in 2010. The 2016 workforce acquired to the Celebration Bowl however misplaced to Grambling State, which means the stress is on now as a result of ….
– The MEAC is 5-1 in Celebration Bowl over the SWAC. That loss by the Eagles is the MEAC’s lone blemish. It doesn’t matter what, count on an entire lot of scoring, an entire lot of offense, and one of the entertaining all-around video games on a Saturday loaded with bowls and key NFL matchups.
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Why Jackson State Will Win The Cricket Celebration Bowl
The offense will get all of the headlines – together with the top coach – but it surely’s the protection that’s been capable of take the workforce to an entire different degree.
The Tigers have the very best protection within the FCS, permitting simply 233 yards and 11.2 factors per recreation because of a killer cross rush that averages an FCS-best 3.9 an outing. The stress will carry on coming, however that’s not a priority on the opposite facet.
North Carolina Central will convey the offense, but it surely doesn’t generate practically sufficient of a cross rush to hassle Shedeur Sanders and a passing recreation that doesn’t hit an entire lot of massive performs, however spreads it round and retains on coming averaging near 300 yards per outing.
Relentless, the Tigers can take over quick if the offense will get clicking immediately. Nonetheless …
Why North Carolina Central Will Win The Cricket Celebration Bowl
The nice Jackson State protection was pushed a wee bit by Southern within the common season finale.
The Tigers have been by no means in any actual hazard, they usually generated three picks, however they have been additionally run on a bit and gave up a season-most 217 passing yards. Now they need to take care of NCCU QB Davius Richardson who threw for near 2,500 yards with 24 touchdowns and ran for 691 yards and 13 scores.
Richardson is an enormous playmaker of an offensive weapon, he’s acquired a robust again in Latrell Collier to take a number of the warmth off, and nobody within the FCS was higher at retaining the chains transferring on third downs.
No, the Eagles don’t have Jackson State’s cross rush, however they maintain powerful within the pink zone, are nice in opposition to the run, they usually provide you with the large performs that ought to be there in opposition to an assault that turned it over 20 instances this yr.
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Jackson State vs North Carolina Central Cricket Celebration Bowl, What’s Going To Occur
North Carolina Central ought to have the ability to sustain.
Simply how distracted will Jackson State be contemplating the whirlwind of Deion Sanders taking the Colorado job, and with a slew of the important thing gamers seemingly able to switch out after this – most certainly to be a Buff?
There shouldn’t be an excessive amount of of an issue – the continuity is there are a lot as doable in a scenario like this – besides, the Eagle offense has the weapons and the downfield passing recreation to match the high-powered Jackson State assault shot for shot.
The Tiger offensive steadiness can be an excessive amount of, the defensive position will take over simply sufficient late – it’ll take a push within the fourth quarter to get this executed – and Sanders will end off an ideal season earlier than going all in at Colorado.
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Jackson State vs North Carolina Central Cricket Celebration Bowl, Prediction, Line
Jackson State 34, North Carolina Central 23
Line: Jackson State -16.5, o/u: 56
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2
Cricket Celebration Bowl Should See Ranking (out of 5): 3
CFN Specialists: Picks: NC Central vs Jackson State
Cricket Celebration Bowl Historical past
Dec. 18, 2021 South Carolina State 31, Jackson State 10
2020 Canceled
Dec. 21, 2019 North Carolina A&T 64, Alcorn State 44
Dec. 15, 2018 North Carolina A&T 24, Alcorn State 22
Dec. 16, 2017 North Carolina A&T 21, Grambling State 14
Dec. 17, 2016 Grambling State 10, North Carolina A&T 9
Dec. 19, 2015 North Carolina A&T41, Alcorn State 34
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APEX, N.C. (WTVD) — Colonel Josh McConkey has spent more than two decades serving our country, in both the Army and Air Force Reserve. He’s now a Commander at Andrews Air Force Base of the 459th Aeromedical Staging Squadron.
“I’ve got to do some pretty special things. I spent time with combat search and rescue. I’ve flown as a flight surgeon, spent time in Rwanda with the State Department,” Col. McConkey told ABC11.
On Monday though, he’ll get to do something that will mark a first for the decorated servicemember, leading the Air Force Reserve delegation at the 2025 Presidential Inauguration.
“I marched a lot when I was a kid and grown up in marching band. So, this is a lot of fun for me, but being able to take part in something like this, being a part of history is pretty special,” Col. McConkey said.
He leaves Thursday to head to Washington DC with months of preparation leading up to this once-in-a-lifetime moment.
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“A lot of logistics and security: we received a 108-page PowerPoint presentation just to go over. There’s a lot of history behind that, a lot of procedure and then the security concerns alone. So, you know, things have been very tight lipped on that, but the practices we’ve done three or four practices and you’re marching out in the cold and the snow. Hopefully it’s going to be above freezing on Inauguration Day,” McConkey said.
When not serving in the Air Force Reserve, Col. McConkey is an ER doctor in the Triangle, an author, the founder of a non-profit organization – and his proudest titles: husband and father of three.
He’s excited to represent North Carolina next week.
“I grew up in a very small town in rural Nebraska and always looked up to military veterans,” he said. “Just to be a part and represent the military and something this historic is, you know, for me is pretty special.”
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Bill Belichick’s first coaching staff at North Carolina continues to come together.
Longtime NFL special teams coach Mike Priefer and veteran SEC offensive line coach Will Friend are expected to finalize deals to join Belichick’s staff, sources told ESPN.
After coaching for nearly a decade in college, Priefer started in the NFL in 2002 and was a special teams coordinator in the NFL from 2006 to 2022. He is noted in Browns history as serving as the head coach in a January 2021 wild-card victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is the franchise’s only postseason win since the 1994 season. Priefer stepped in for Kevin Stefanski, who watched the game at home with COVID.
Priefer was the special teams coordinator for the Chiefs (2006-08), Broncos (2009-10), Vikings (2011-18) and Browns (2019-22). He brings ties to the Naval Academy, something he shares with Belichick and his family. Priefer is a Navy graduate and served as a graduate assistant there.
Friend worked last season as Western Kentucky’s offensive coordinator. He brings strong recruiting ties in the South, having worked at Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn and Mississippi State as the offensive line coach. He has also worked as the offensive coordinator at Colorado State and WKU.
Friend has a long history of developing linemen for the NFL.
With Priefer and Friend, there are six known members of Belichick’s staff, which includes longtime NFL coach Freddie Kitchens as the offensive coordinator and veteran NFL coach Stephen Belichick as the defensive coordinator.
The hires line up the objectives of Belichick, who has stressed that he wants to run the Tar Heels like a pro program.
Before taking the UNC job, Belichick told ESPN’s Pat McAfee that if he were to run a college program, it would be a “pipeline to the NFL for the players that had the ability to play in the NFL.”
He added: “It would be a professional program. Training, nutrition, scheme, coaching, techniques that would transfer to the NFL. It would be an NFL program at a college level and an education that would get the players ready for their career after football.”
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