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Fans of Tuskegee Football will get the opportunity to catch the Golden Tigers in their first national telecast of the season today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern/1:00 p.m. Central as the 78th Tuskegee-Morehouse Classic emanates from Columbus, GA.  Stations around the Tuskegee area that carry Bounce TV include WSFA in Montgomery (12.2), WTVM in Columbus (9.2) and WATL in Atlanta (36.2).

The annual TU-Morehouse press conference was held on Wednesday, and the head football coaches from both teams managed to talk about their upcoming game that will be played at A.J. McClung Stadium later today.  Willie Slater talked about the challenges that his team has faced in starting off the 2013 season with essentially a six-game road trip, and how he saw similarities in Tuskegee's 4-6 season in 2011 to the struggles that Morehouse has faced this season.

"We are very fortunate to be 4-1 right now," Slater said.  "We've had a tough road trip, and this is wrapping up our road trip coming to Columbus, which is good because it's close to home.  We have a tough opponent in Morehouse, and I know they have a young quarterback.  Our quarterback was young two years ago, and we took some spankings.  But, he got better, and I see their guy getting better."

Morehouse Coach Rich Freeman said that his football team is full of youth, and that they have had to deal with lowered expectations of a program that usually starts off the season well.

"This year, as last year, we limp into the Classic with a 2-3 record," Freeman said.  "We're a pretty young football team coming off a devastating program loss...program challenging loss to our cross-street rivals in Clark Atlanta University during the last seconds of the football game.  So, that is something that has challenged the overall morale of our football team and coaches."

In spite of the challenges, Freeman said that he looks at the classic as an opportunity to pull of the upset of the season in the conference while turning around the fortunes of his own program.

"I'm excited," Freeman said.  "I'm excited about this upcoming game.  I look at it as an opportunity not as going up against an extremely tough team, where the odds are stacked against you and you don't have a great chance of winning the game.  I look at it as an opportunity to pull off a shocker, to pull off a shocker against a great football team."