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The ESPN Celebration Bowl is an upcoming annual American college football bowl game that will be played in mid-December of each year starting in 2015. The newly created Celebration Bowl will feature a match-up of champions from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference, the two prominent Historically Black Division I athletic conferences. The game, which is scheduled for December 19, 2015, will be played inside the Georgia Dome located in Downtown Atlanta Georgia. The Celebration Bowl will be the third game of its kind, pitting the champions of the MEAC and SWAC against each other. The previous two games, the Pelican Bowl and its successor the Heritage Bowl were held during the 1970s and 1990s respectively. The game will be the second annual college bowl game held inside the Georgia Dome, joining the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. On March 18, 2015, ESPN Events officially announced the upcoming bowl game at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. The game will be owned, operated and broadcast by ESPN, who also owns and operates the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, the annual interconference game between the two conferences, held during Labor Day weekend football in Orlando, Florida. On June 9, 2015, ESPN Events officially announced the championship game will be nationally televised on ABC.〔http://www.swac.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27400&ATCLID=210139688〕 The game will be the first to feature two HBCU and FCS teams on ABC. On August 31, 2015, ESPN Events named former 100 Black Men of America of Atlanta Inc. CEO John Grant, the executive director of the event.〔http://hbcudigest.com/post/128043661081/100-black-men-of-atlanta-cancels-2015-atlanta〕 ==See also== * Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference * Southwestern Athletic Conference 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celebration Bowl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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