CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some wins don’t just change a season. They can change a program’s memory. This weekend, HBCU Gameday’s Brick x Brick with JCSU Football — the “HBCU Hard Knocks” that lives in the tight shots, raw audio, and real emotion most broadcasts never catch — premieres one of the most powerful episodes of the entire series.
It’s titled “Déjà Vu.” And it earns the name.
Déjà Vu isn’t a theme — it’s a moment
Back in 2023, Johnson C. Smith arrived in Fayetteville staring up at a familiar giant. Fayetteville State was the defending CIAA champion. JCSU was the rising program fighting through its first real winning season in a decade.
The game ended with a gut-punch: 4th-and-long, chance to tie — and it slipped away…