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The 11-1 Florida A&M Rattlers play the 6-5 Howard Bison for the Black college football national championship in the 2023 Celebration Bowl in Atlanta.
The game — which has a stated mission to “celebrate the heritage, legacy, pageantry and tradition” of HBCUs — is considered the de facto national championship of Black college football.
The Celebration Bowl is a postseason college football bowl game, first played in the 2015 season, contested between the champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC)—the two prominent conferences of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in NCAA Division I.
The HBCU Legacy Bowl is an annual post-season American college football all-star game for NFL draft-eligible players from historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), and is the overall concluding game of the college football post-season.
The bowl's legitimacy as an HBCU championship game was called into question immediately, starting with its very first contest, when its committee awarded its automatic bid to the MEAC's second-seeded co-champion, North Carolina A&T, over its top seed, Delaware State [6] (Delaware State had defeated the Aggies head-to-head, on the road even, but their conference victory over Bethune–Cookman ...
FAMU can win the Black College Football National Championship in front of a special guest when Vice ... (6-5) HBCU Celebration Bowl Game. FAMU football defeats Prairie View A&M 35-14 to win the ...
The first football game between HBCU schools was played on December 27, 1892. On that day Johnson C. Smith defeated Livingstone College. As it was the only game played by HBCU schools that year, Johnson C. Smith's team could no doubt claim to be that season's HBCU national champions by default.
Allen Media Group has set a deal with Fox-owned stations in Los Angeles and Chicago to carry the 2024 college football package offered under the company’s HBCU Go banner. The deal with Fox’s ...