T.C. Taylor hopes the fourth era’s a appeal in original Birthday party Bowl commute

For Jackson Shape professor T.C. Taylor, the Birthday party Bowl is turning into used hat.

When the Tigers set in in Atlanta this pace to organize for Saturday’s recreation towards MEAC champion South Carolina Shape upcoming clinching the SWAC identify for the 3rd era within the terminating 4 seasons, it’s going to mark Taylor’s fourth total look in the yearly December match.

Taylor, who used to be a celeb huge receiver at Jackson Shape right through his collegiate taking part in days, used to be an workman underneath then-North Carolina Central head professor Jerry Mack when the Eagles performed Grambling Shape within the 2016 Celebration Bowl.

4 years next, Taylor used to be alongside for the trip as an offensive workman when the Deion Sanders-led Jackson Shape staff made consecutive journeys to the Birthday party Bowl in 2021 and 2022.

Regardless of Taylor raving in regards to the bowl revel in, there’s something he hungers for greater than the rest this travel round as head professor.

To in spite of everything advance Mercedes-Benz Stadium with a win.

“I just feel like if I keep going, eventually I’m going to get one (a win),” Taylor mentioned right through Sunday’s virtual Celebration Bowl press conference.

Taylor has been at the shedding finish of 3 Birthday party Bowls. He watched North Carolina Central lose a 10-9 heartbreaker to Grambling and Jackson Shape loose consecutive appearances — each as favorites — to South Carolina Shape and, mockingly, N.C. Central in an overtime thriller.

Following the Tigers’ 41-13 win over Southern, which earned them a berth to the de facto HBCU nationwide championship recreation, Taylor reminded his crew to “get it done.”

“I told the players to let’s just prepare and go get it. You got to take care of business like we did on Saturday to get this opportunity,” he mentioned.

A win for Jackson Shape would give this system its first outright Unlit Nationwide Championship since 1996. And if Taylor and the Tigers have been to recover from the hump, he will be the first Jackson Shape professor since James Carson to manage the crew to a countrywide identify as an alum of the college.

“But just to have the opportunity itself to back to Atlanta, you know, it’s a great event,” mentioned Taylor. “But, you know, as long as I keep getting there, eventually, we’ll get it done. So, it would mean the world, you know, to finally go over there and get it.”