The OBC was started at FAMU in 1933. For 13 years, the game rotated between Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa and in 1947, before it settled in Miami, where it was the first predominately black football game played in the Orange Bowl Stadium.
Attendance grew from 5,000 to a high of 47,191 in 1961, when FAMU defeated Jackson State to finish the season with a perfect 10-0 record.
Even during a pandemic, a crowd of at-least 50,000 are expected to turn out to watch the two teams battle on the gridiron.
“You’re going to see some high-quality football, I promise you that,” Sanders said. “This is not just a game. It’s a celebration. It’s an opportunity for us to put our players on the national stage.”
"It's been dubbed the Black College Football game of the year and it's the first game of the season," said FAMU Coach Willie Simmons. "These guys hear those things. We try to make sure they don't read the press clippings, but they're human so some probably have."
"Every time we take the field, we're representing the greatest institution in America," said Simmons. "For us, we don't take that lightly. We want to make sure we prepare ourselves physically and mentally to go out and give our best showing to go out and give our best showing Sunday at 3:00 pm."