The first battle features high school bands in the Dallas area and the last is between the " World Famed Tiger Marching Band" of Grambling and the "Marching Storm" of Prairie View. The classic is accompanied by a pre-game concert featuring a celebrity artist, press conference/fellowship luncheon, pep rallies, alumni fundraising functions, golf tournament, jazz show, comedy show, tailgating, and two battles of the bands. Upon the revival of this pairing, Grambling won every game until this changed with the 2009 edition, and the game subsequent to this has been very competitive, with Prairie View winning four out of five contests between then and 2013. Since then, this has been the annual matchup held at the State Fair Classic. Even though Prairie View brought football back in 1991, that year Grambling played North Carolina A&T, so it was not until 1992 that the Classic would see the PVAMU–GSU showdown once again. With the disbanding of the Prairie View football program in 1990, the State Fair Classic featured Grambling and Elizabeth City State. From that point, Prairie View A&M maintained a presence in the Cotton Bowl with match-ups against Bishop, East Texas State University (A&M–Commerce), Southern, and others over the years before moving its annual rivalry game against Grambling to the Cotton Bowl stadium in 1985 (the Panthers' series with Grambling had also previously been hosted by the State Fair of Louisiana before returning to on-campus venues in 1962). Wiley wasn't the only college to play PVAMU in the State Fair Classic during that era, as the Panthers battled Tennessee State in 1956 and then Texas Southern until 1959.Īfter relocating to Dallas in 1961, Bishop College eventually took Wiley's place in the annual contest in the 43rd annual classic in 1967. An early concept of "Monday Night Football" could also be attributed to the Texas State Fair Classic and Louisiana's own State Fair Classic, as the contests took place on Monday nights from the 1920s into the 1960s. The contest always took place on "Negro Day" at the State Fair of Texas and would feature the city's black high school football championship in the afternoon followed by the much-anticipated college game at night. Both teams met four consecutive years in Dallas before Prairie View replaced Langston in 1929. The first game was played on Monday, Octoand resulted in a 0–0 tie with neither team scoring before a crowd of 5,000.
The State Fair Classic, held annually at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, began in 1925 featuring the Wiley College Wildcats and Langston University Lions.
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