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MikeCheck: Celebration Bowl-bound Aggies don’t need FCS playoffs to validate one of NCAA football's most remarkable runs

MEMPHIS – Considering the football résumé, it’s only natural to wonder.

When you’ve dominated Black College football the past half-decade like North Carolina A&T has, it’s human nature to contemplate how far such a talented and special team might go in the national college football playoffs against top mainstream FCS competition.

Being the elite program in HBCU football ranks is one thing. Having a shot to emerge as the best FCS squad in the nation overall is quite another. It’s a juxtaposition N.C. A&T coach Sam Washington juggles as the Aggies keep stacking Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championships and Black College titles.