Arkansas-Pine Bluff
2-2SWAC · Golden Lion Stadium · 16,000 · 7,325 avg in 2026
LastW 41–35 vs Central State · Sat Sep 19 · Tylan Cole 2 sacks, 3 TFL, 4 tackles
Nextat Southern · Sat Oct 3 · 7 pm ET · Ace W. Mumford Stadium · series 5-13
Updated Tue Sep 22 · through week 3
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 29 | #248 | #403 | — | Morehouse (N) | W 35–15 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 1 | Sep 4 | #248 | #38 | +55.5✓ | @Missouri | L 14–54 131 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #252 | #182 | +8.5✓ | Alcorn State (N) | L 51–53 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #236 | #382 | — | Central State | W 41–35 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 5 | Oct 3 | #237 | #213 | @Southern | ||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Alabama State | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Florida A&M | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | Bethune-Cookman | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Grambling | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Prairie View A&M | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | @Texas Southern |
Advanced box score (EPA, success rate, explosiveness)▼
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19 | Central State | W 41–35 | — | — | — | +0.322 | 47.4% | 157.1% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Sep 12 | Alcorn State | L 51–53 | — | — | — | +0.291 | 46.2% | 123.5% | One-score loss |
| Sep 4 | @Missouri | L 14–54 | 198 | 0 | 26:02 | +0.017 | 27.8% | 151.2% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Aug 29 | Morehouse | W 35–15 | — | — | — | +0.282 | 38.5% | 186.2% | Most explosive |
| Season average (4 games) | 198 | 0.0 | +0.228 | 39.9% | 154.5% | ||||
Game Week
11 days
until kickoff · at Southern · Sat Oct 3 · 7 pm ET
A historically black university program rebuilding under head coach Alonzo Hampton, who enters his fourth season in 2026 with a 9-26 record from 2023-2025, still measuring itself against a 2012 SWAC championship coached by a three-time Super Bowl winner.
UAPB competes in the SWAC as a historically black land-grant university with a 16,000-seat stadium and a budget that lags even some SWAC peers. The 2025 Academic Progress Rate postseason ban is a…
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2026 · 2-2
✓ measured from 4 games · ranks are among SWAC teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Arkansas-Pine Bluff has won two of its last five.
Cooling. 3-7 over the last 10, and won the last one.
Next Oct 3
vs Southern · away
Outcome band · Arkansas-Pine Bluff · 2026
Outcome band · Arkansas-Pine Bluff · 2026Arkansas-Pine Bluff's most likely season is 5-7 — no postseason. The floor is 2-10; the ceiling is 9-4.
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
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Arkansas-Pine Bluff football is a historically black university program rebuilding under head coach Alonzo Hampton, who enters his fourth season in 2026 carrying a 9-26 record from his first three (2023-2025). The Golden Lions' high-water mark remains 2012 -- a 10-2 season under Monte Coleman, a three-time Super Bowl champion linebacker turned head coach, that produced a SWAC championship and a share of the HBCU national title. Today the program's biggest annual stage is the Southern Heritage Classic in Memphis against Alcorn State, a booking it inherited in 2023.
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