Pelican Bowl

Pelican Bowl (defunct)
Stadium	Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana
Previous stadiums	Wallace Wade Stadium (1972) Tulane Stadium (1974)
Previous locations	Durham, North Carolina
Operated	1972, 1974–75
Conference tie-ins	MEAC, SWAC

1972 Pelican Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Grambling	21	14	7	14	56
NC Central	0	6	0	0	6

Location: Wallace Wade Stadium
Durham, NC
Game attendance: 22,500

1974 Pelican Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
SC State	0	0	0	7	7
• Grambling	7	14	7	0	28

Location: Tulane Stadium
New Orleans, LA
Game attendance: 30,120

1975 Pelican Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
SC State	0	12	0	0	12
• Southern	0	0	0	15	15

Location: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
New Orleans, LA
Game attendance: 6,748

The Pelican Bowl is a defunct, Louisiana-based NCAA Division II bowl game that was intended to match the overall champions or top-seeded co-champions from the new Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and the long-established Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) to determine the black college football national championship in the United States between 1972–75. The game was won by the SWAC opponent in all three editions of the bowl. Due to low attendance, the game folded following the 1975 contest; the concept would be revived from 1991 to 1999 with the Heritage Bowl and again in 2015 with the Celebration Bowl.

The inaugural Pelican Bowl was originally scheduled to be played at A. W. Mumford Stadium on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. However, due to campus unrest in the wake of an on-campus shooting on November 16, 1972, officials from both the SWAC and MEAC decided to move the game to another location. An announcement was officially made to move the game on November 21 to Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The game marked the first bowl game played in the state of North Carolina since the 1942 Rose Bowl, which was also temporarily relocated there. In the inaugural contest Grambling State defeated North Carolina Central 56–6 to capture the 1972 black college football national championship.

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