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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. ... narrowing the score to 24-19 late in the ...
The Celebration Bowl is an annual game played between the champions of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), two FCS conferences that are ...
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 SWAC and MEAC are the two NCAA Division I conferences of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Celebration Bowl thus serves as a de facto black college football national championship. The Celebration Bowl was the only one of the 2024–25 bowl games played by teams from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
The game was founded by the Black College Football Hall of Fame, National Football League (NFL), Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Tulane University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The inaugural bowl was contested on February 19, 2022, at Yulman Stadium on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans ; it was broadcast on NFL Network .
Christopher Zellous accounted for four touchdowns and Hampton held off Grambling 35-31 on Saturday as the teams opened their seasons in the inaugural Brick City HBCU Classic at Red Bull Arena.
The Black college football national championship, also named the HBCU football championship, is a national championship honor that, since 1920, has been regularly bestowed upon the best College football teams among historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) within the United States.
It is the best known annual game and rivalry in historically black college or university (HBCU) football and was nationally televised in the U.S. by NBC from 1991 to 2014. Beginning in 2015, it aired on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN); [4] after NBCSN shut down at the end of 2021, [5] the Bayou Classic returned to NBC.