Football | 9/18/2025 5:52:00 PM
GREENSBORO – The week leading up to North Carolina A&T's annual showdown with archrival North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has become an awesome one for the Aggies football.
This week alone, the program has won two national honors and a conference weekly honor.
Graduate Andrew Brown received two of those honors as an individual, earning Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) co-Special Teams Player of the Week. In addition, Brown also won co-kicker of the week from the Fred Mitchell Award group, which presents awards to the nation's top kickers in FCS, D-II, D-III, NAIA, and NJCAA. The award also recognizes their work in the community and is a part of the National Football Foundation (NFF).
In addition to Brown's awards, FCS Stats Perform named the A&T football team the HBCU FCS National Team of the Week after their come-from-behind 33-30 double overtime win over the Hampton Pirates last Saturday.
Brown made two field goals, one from 49 yards and the other from 37 yards out. He also made all three of his extra point attempts. His 49-yard field goal came in the first quarter, giving the Aggies a 3-0 lead. Before his 37-yarder, he executed an onside kick that gave the Aggies the ball at the A&T 48-yard line.
A few plays later, he made the 37-yard field goal to tie the game at 20-20 as time expired in regulation. Brown continues to close in on A&T's career record for field goals. He has 38 for his career, five shy of breaking Cody Jones's record of 42 set from 2013-16.
Brown's heroics were a part of the Aggies' miraculous comeback against the Pirates. The Aggies trailed 20-10 with 1:47 remaining in the game. Fifty seconds later, the Aggies got within three after redshirt junior quarterback Noah Sanders connected with graduate receiver Jamison Warren for a 41-yard touchdown pass. Sanders entered the game after the previous six A&T quarterbacks sustained injuries over a five-month period, including four injuries in the last two weeks.
In fact, A&T's starting quarterback on Saturday, freshman Nelson Layne, left the game early with a lower-leg injury. In overtime, Sanders scored on a 1-yard TD run before Hampton answered with a touchdown pass and a field goal. Graduate running back Wesley Graves won the game on a five-yard touchdown run.
The win snapped A&T's 12-game losing streak while securing its first-ever win as a CAA Football Conference member. The win also marked A&T's first win over a Division I-FCS in two years, and it was Shawn Gibbs' first as A&T's head coach.
