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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 HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC), formerly known as the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, is a college athletic conference made up entirely of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that is affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
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.
Jackson State remains the No.1 team in HBCU football, but South Carolina State tumbles after a shocking upset. HBCU football rankings after Week 9: Deion Sanders' Jackson State team again No. 1 ...
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.
Jackson State stayed atop the USA TODAY Network's HBCU football rankings Deion Sanders guided his team past Alabama State, but it wasn't easy.
The earliest known use of the term "classic" to informally describe a black college football game occurred in 1919 on Thanksgiving Day, for a game between Howard and Lincoln (PA). [3] The earliest documented use of "classic" as part of an annual black college football game's formal name dates to the Thanksgiving, 1921 "Colored Foot Ball Classic ...
Jackson State football remains atop of the HBCU Power Rankings at No. 1 out of 21 teams.