Come and celebrate your NCCU football team, the 2022 HBCU National Champion Eagles, with a parade and pep rally at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 21!

Beginning at Cecil Street, the parade route will run from Fayetteville Street to the entrance of the O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium from Lawson Street.

Participants will include NCCU Head Football Coach Trei Oliver and members of the NCCU football program; the Sound Machine; NCCU cheerleaders and Eddie the Eagle mascot; NCCU student leaders; Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye; and City of Durham Mayor Elaine O'Neal '84, L '91.

The pep rally will follow in the stadium with a recognition ceremony of the team and coaching staff by Mayor O'Neal and Chancellor Akinleye.

Attendees will also have an opportunity to meet and receive signed posters from the championship-winning team and view and take photos with the Cricket Celebration Bowl and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Championship trophies.

On Dec. 17, 2022, NCCU Football defeated Jackson State University, 41-34, in the Cricket Celebration Bowl overtime thriller at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The university's 2022 HBCU national title will join the company of those won in 1954, 2005 and 2006.