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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 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 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 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.
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).
1938 Black College National Champions William M. Bell 8–0 SIAC. 1942 Black College National Champions William M. Bell 9–0 SIAC. 1950 Black College National co-champions Jake Gaither 8–1–1 SIAC
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.
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