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The Celebration Bowl is a post-season college football game that began play in the 2015 season. The game is 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. It serves as the de facto national championship of Black college football and is the only active bowl game to feature teams from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Starting with the December 2017 game, it is played at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium; the first two games were played at the Georgia Dome.
Short preview of the @celebrationbowl. pic.twitter.com/6zsr42eUea
— The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) December 15, 2017
The game is a successor to two previous bowl games between the MEAC and SWAC, the Pelican Bowl and the Heritage buy viagra honolulu Bowl. The game is organized by ESPN Events, which also runs the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, the annual interconference game between the two conferences, held over Labor Day weekend in Orlando, Florida. Because the Celebration Bowl takes place during the FCS playoff tournament, neither the SWAC nor the MEAC can send their champion to the tournament; as it is, the SWAC’s regular season already extended too late into the year for its teams to qualify before the bowl was established. In June 2017, the SWAC announced that it will forgo its football championship game following the 2017 SWAC Football Championship, resulting in the SWAC regular season champion qualifying automatically for the Celebration Bowl.
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North Carolina A&T scored late to beat Grambling in the Celebration Bowl and finish 12-0, the first MEAC team to ever have a perfect season. pic.twitter.com/ZeiikrJwHe
— ESPN (@espn) December 16, 2017
2017 Celebration Bowl Halftime Show