Celebration Bowl to be televised Dec. 18
Fred Jeter | 12/16/2021, 6 p.m.
Jackson State and South Carolina State universities will be playing Saturday, Dec. 18, for what is considered the Black College Football National Championship.
The occasion is the sixth Celebration Bowl, sponsored by Cricket Wireless, and the location for the matchup is the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
ABC will televise the event starting at noon, with former NFL star Robert Griffin III as part of the announcing team.
Jackson State, 11-1, won the SWAC Championship, while South Carolina State, 6-5, won the MEAC title.
There was no Celebration Bowl last year because of the pandemic. MEAC champion North Carolina A&T State University won the bowl in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The game matches the champions of the two NCAA Division I FCS conferences. The SWAC has 12 football playing members, while the MEAC has dwindled to six. In recent years Hampton University, North Carolina A&T, Savannah State, Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M have left the MEAC for other conferences. Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M are now in the SWAC.
