The second season of the Sam Shade era is on deck at Alabama A&M.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs will open the season on Saturday, Aug. 29, against Howard in the MEAC\/SWAC Challenge. The matchup is set at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Alabama A&M will open at home against Miles College on Saturday, Sept. 5, in the 16th annual Louis Crews Classic before a rivalry game against Tennessee State at home the following Saturday.<\/p>\n
SWAC play begins for Alabama A&M in Tallahassee, Fla., against Florida A&M on Saturday, Sept. 26, and will face Jackson State in the Gulf Coast Challenge at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile the following week.<\/p>\n
The Magic City Classic against Alabama State is set for Saturday, Oct. 31, at Legion Field in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
Alabama A&M finished last season 4-8 overall and 1-7 in SWAC play in the first year under Shade.<\/p>\n
Here is the Bulldogs\u2019 full 2026 slate:<\/p>\n
Alabama A&M 2026 football schedule<\/p>\n
(Home games in ALL CAPS and all games Saturday unless noted)<\/p>\n
Aug. 29, vs. Howard (Atlanta, Ga.)^<\/p>\n
Sept. 5, MILES COLLEGE<\/p>\n
Sept. 12, TENNESSEE STATE<\/p>\n
Sept. 19, BOWIE STATE<\/p>\n
Sept. 26, at Florida A&M*<\/p>\n
Oct. 3, vs. Jackson State (Mobile)*<\/p>\n
Oct. 10, BETHUNE-COOKMAN*<\/p>\n
Oct. 17, GRAMBLING STATE*<\/p>\n
Oct. 31, vs. Alabama State (Birmingham)*#<\/p>\n
Nov. 7, at Prairie View A&M*<\/p>\n
Nov. 14, TEXAS SOUTHERN*<\/p>\n
Nov. 21, at Mississippi Valley State*<\/p>\n
*\u2014 SWAC game<\/p>\n
^ \u2014 MEAC\/SWAC Challenge<\/p>\n
# \u2014 Magic City Classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second season of the Sam Shade era is on deck at Alabama A&M. The Bulldogs will open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[265,102236,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-701885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-colour-image","10":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115951078244327018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}