Tremaine Jackson: To Be Elite, You Must Play Elite Programs

And when I got here, I stood on a podium and said, it is time. And it is now time for us to measure our program against somebody else outside of our conference. And in order to do that, you have to go play the nation's best. To be an elite FCS program, you have to play elite people. I don't control anybody else's situation, but it's easy to sit and call yourself elite and you don't play nobody elite and you start thinking you're elite. You gotta go play people and you can't get any warmups to game one. Man, we had to go get it. We've never gotten a warmup to game one. We used to open up with a West game, SWAT game, rival game, all in week one. It don't get no more pressure than that. This is actually a little bit of relief because at least it's not a Western division game, right? True, true. It is against the top five opponents. Prairie View A&M has never beat a top five opponent. The highest that we've ever beaten is a.