Magic City Classic

The Magic City Classic between Alabama A&M and Alabama State has become the highest attended Division I Football Champion Subdivision (FCS) game in the nation as attendance averages 61,000 annually.  Their annual classic will be celebrating its 75th renewal today to a possible sell-out crowd at Legion Field in Birmingham – which holds 71,594 seats. 

It barely matters that both teams are 2-5 overall and 2-4 in the conference because their matchup trumps everything else they do during a season since the classic is noted for being the largest HBCU event in the nation.  The overall series pre-dates the start of the Magic City Classic as it started in 1924, and Alabama A&M leads the series 39-37-3.

This game will be shown on ESPNU at 10:30 tonight.