• Texas Southern closes out its two-game Dallas Metroplex swing with a contest against SWAC foe Southern in the second annual Arlington Showdown at Choctaw Stadium at 4 p.m. TSU is the designated home team in the game.
• Saturday's contest will feature live audio on KTSU 90.9 FM and will be shown live on the new HBCUGO package.
• TSU has lost two straight and is coming off a loss at North Texas on Saturday. This is TSU's last SWAC contest until October as the Tigers are looking to go 1-1 in SWAC play for the second straight year.
• TSU and Southern are playing in Arlington, Texas for the second straight year as last year's game was also at Choctaw Stadium. The teams moved their annual home-and-home contest to the Dallas Metroplex in 2018 with games at the Cotton Bowl in 2018 and 2019. The 2021 spring football contest was played in Houston at PNC Stadium.
• Southern head coach Eric Dooley is 4-0 against TSU lifetime. He previously served as head coach at Prairie View A&M.
• The win over Southern last year ended a nine-game slide dating back to 2012. TSU hasn't won two straight over SU since a three-game run from 2009-11 and a two-game streak from 1989-90. • Texas Southern has 12 players on the roster from the Dallas Metroplex.
• The Tigers feature fourth-year head coach Clarence McKinney. A Houston native, McKinney attended high school across the street at Jack Yates High School and played collegiately at Montana State and the University of Mary. He also served as head coach at Yates before joining the staffs at Houston, Texas A&M and Arizona.
• Clarence McKinney is the 17th head coach in the history of Texas Southern Football. McKinney has a task ahead as the program has only had 28 winning seasons in 76 years of existence and hasn't recorded a winning season since 2000.
• McKinney won as a student at Yates High School and helped the University of Mary post three winning seasons as a student-athlete in college which made school history. As head coach at Yates, McKinney posted a mark of 30-8 over three years before moving on to the collegiate ranks as an assistant. As an assistant at Houston, Texas A&M and Arizona, McKinney has only experienced three losing seasons in his 11 years of collegiate coaching.
