PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas
Get ready for another shocker that fits right into this crazy year in college football: Prairie View A&M is on the verge of a winning season.
That’s right, the same program that lost an NCAA-record 80 consecutive games in the 1990s. The team that hasn’t finished above .500 since 1976 and once lost three consecutive games by a combined score of 194-0.
Look at the Panthers now.
They’re 5-2 and have won three in a row heading into Saturday’s game at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (1-7). If Prairie View can win its final three games, it would complete its best season since 1964, when the Panthers went 9-0 and won their last Southwestern Athletic Conference title.
“We’re starting to wake up from the dream,” fourth-year coach Henry Frazier III said. “It’s starting to come to reality.”
The turnaround started two years before Frazier arrived, when Charles McClelland became the athletic director. A 1993 graduate of the school, McClelland witnessed the start of the historic losing streak as a student.
