NSU Challenge
SportFootball
First meetingOctober 6, 1973
Nicholls State 3, Northwestern State 0
Latest meetingOctober 1, 2022
Northwestern State 36, Nicholls 33
Next meetingNovember 9, 2024
TrophyNSU Trophy
Statistics
Meetings total50
All-time seriesNorthwestern State leads, 29–21
Largest victoryNicholls State, 58–0 (2007)
Longest win streakNorthwestern State, 9 (1980–1988)
Current win streakNorthwestern State, 1 (2022–present)
Locations of Nicholls and Northwestern State

The NSU Challenge is an American college football rivalry game[1] played annually between the Nicholls Colonels football team representing Nicholls State University and Northwestern State Demons football team representing Northwestern State University.[2] Both universities are members of the Southland Conference. The NSU Trophy, which is a wooden trophy enscripted with NSU goes to the winning team.[3][4] Although Nicholls has changed their athletic brand name from Nicholls State to Nicholls in 2018, thus not going by NSU anymore in athletics, the rivalry is still called the NSU Challenge.

History

The first game in the NichollsNorthwestern State series was played in 1973.[5]

Game results

Nicholls victoriesNorthwestern State victories

See also

References

  1. "Rivalry trophy on the line in road test at Northwestern State". geauxcolonels.com. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  2. "Nicholls prepares to face SLC rival Northwestern State". houmatoday.com. October 27, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  3. "Demons hoping to get back in the groove for Homecoming". nsudemons.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  4. "Demons handled the elements to put away Colonels". desmoinesregister.com. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  5. "Colonels to Battle Demons in Rivalry Game". geauxcolonels.com. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  6. "Saturday's game canceled as NSU mourns loss of Ronnie Caldwell". Northwestern State University Athletics. 2023-09-12. Retrieved 2023-10-13.

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