Tigers Head North To Face Arkansas-Pine Bluff Saturday Afternoon

Football
10/7/2022 10:00:00 AM

TSU Sports Information

• Texas Southern hits the road once again as they’ll head to Pine Bluff, Ark. for a contest at Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday at 2 p.m.

• Texas Southern will become very familiar with the word Homecoming as the Tigers will participate in three straight homecomings this month as they’ll be guests at UAPB, Alcorn Sate and ultimately, their own on Oct. 29.

• Saturday’s contest will feature live audio on KTSU 90.9 FM and will be shown live on the UAPB Sports Network.

• TSU will face UAPB for only the second time since 2019. UAPB is one of three teams in the SWAC that TSU has a winning record against all-time (Mississippi Valley State/Prairie View A&M).

• UAPB is 2-3 entering Saturday’s game and 0-2 in SWAC play. UAPB has yet to earn an NCAA win this season and is coming of a 59-3 loss at Southern. Skyler Perry has thrown for 611 yards and four touchdowns while Kayvon Britten has rushed for 380 yards and six touchdowns. Raequan Price is the top wideout with 235 yards on 18 receptions while linebacker Isaac Peppers is the top tackler with 27 stops.

• TSU has won five of the past eight against UAPB.

• TSU running backs and special teams coach Larry Warner spent the past two years at UAPB in the same capacity.

•  TSU’s last true road win in an opposing team’s stadium occurred in Pine Bluff, Ark. on Nov. 18, 2018 by a 24-10 margin.

• The Tigers feature fourth-year head coach Clarence McKinney. A Houston native, McKinney attended high school across the street at Jack Yates High School and played collegiately at Montana State and the University of Mary. He also served as head coach at Yates before joining the staffs at Houston, Texas A&M and Arizona.

• Clarence McKinney is the 17th head coach in the history of Texas Southern Football. McKinney has a task ahead as the program has only had 28 winning seasons in 76 years of existence and hasn’t recorded a winning season since 2000.

• McKinney won as a student at Yates High School and helped the University of Mary post three winning seasons as a student-athlete in college which made school history. As head coach at Yates, McKinney posted a mark of 30-8 over three years before moving on to the collegiate ranks as an assistant. As an assistant at Houston, Texas A&M and Arizona, McKinney has only experienced three losing seasons in his 11 years of collegiate coaching.