1979 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team

1979 Prairie View A&M Panthers football
ConferenceSouthwestern Athletic Conference
Record0–11 (0–6 SWAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumEdward L. Blackshear Field
1979 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 6 Alcorn State + 5 1 0 8 2 0
No. 1 Grambling State + 5 1 0 8 3 0
No. 8 Jackson State 4 2 0 8 3 0
No. T–10 Southern 4 2 0 7 4 0
Mississippi Valley State 2 4 0 4 5 0
Texas Southern 1 5 0 3 8 0
Prairie View A&M 0 6 0 0 11 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • This conference was a hybrid of NCAA Division I-AA and Division II and programs. Prairie View was classified as Division II. All the other teams were I-AA.
Rankings from Associated Press poll

The 1979 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team represented Prairie View A&M University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1979 NCAA Division II football season. Led by tenth-year head coach Hoover J. Wright, the Panthers compiled an overall record of 0–11, with a conference record of 0–6, and finished seventh in the SWAC.