What is the Celebration Bowl? Explaining history behind ‘Black national championship’ for HBCUs
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 17, 2022
Saturday's Celebration Bowl between Jackson State and North Carolina Central represents the final game of the season for HBCUs in the 2022 college football season.
Though it is a relatively new game, having been reinstated as recently as the 2015 season, the Celebration Bowl serves as the de facto Black national championship game. How important is it to FCS HBCUs? The representatives from the SWAC and MEAC, the conferences that play in the game, forgo playing in the FCS playoffs for the chance to play in it.
The chance to claim supremacy among HBCUs . . .
