The Grambling Tigers represent Grambling State University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics. Grambling's sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Currently, the Grambling State University Department of Athletics sponsors Men's Intercollegiate football, along with men's and women's basketball, baseball, track & field, softball, golf, soccer, tennis, bowling and volleyball.

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Sports

Football

Grambling State plays its arch rival Southern University in the annual "Bayou Classic," which is hosted in New Orleans over Thanksgiving weekend at the Louisiana Superdome and broadcast nationally on NBC.

Former football coach Eddie Robinson holds the NCAA record for most career wins as a head coach at a NCAA division I school.

During Robinson’s stellar 57-year coaching career, the University gained a national reputation because of the large number of athletes who joined the professional ranks in football.

After Robinson’s retirement in 1997, former GSU standout and NFL Super Bowl XXII MVP Doug Williams took over the reins of the University's football program.

Grambling has won thirteen black college national championships, more than any other school in America (Robinson's teams won nine of those championships).

Pro Football Hall of Fame Members

• Willie Brown
• Buck Buchanan
• Willie Davis
• Charlie Joiner

Baseball

Olen Parker

James Cooper

Courtney Duncan

Gerald Williams

Men's Basketball

The Grambling State Tigers won the NAIA National championship tournament in 1961, beating Georgetown College (Ky.). In the following years, the Tigers made it to the NAIA Final Four, and placed 3rd in 1963, and 1966, defeating Fort Hays State (Kan.) and Norfolk State (Va.) respectively. The Tigers appeared in the NAIA National Tournament eight times from 1959 to 1971. With a total NAIA National Tournament record of 19-7. Former NBA star Charles Hardnett played for the National Championship Tiger team.

Women's Basketball

Track & Field

Softball

Golf

Soccer

Tennis

Bowling

Volleyball

Cheerleading

Traditions

Grambling State's colors are black and gold, with red as a tertiary color symbolizing the blood of people of African descent. The school's mascot is the "Tigers," and its slogan is "Where everybody is Somebody."