2015 Celebration Bowl

2015 Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl
Inaugural Celebration Bowl
Head coach Rod Broadway (right) accepting the championship trophy
1234 Total
Alcorn State 67714 34
North Carolina A&T 213314 41
DateDecember 19, 2015
Season2015
StadiumGeorgia Dome
LocationAtlanta, Georgia
MVPOffense: #28 RB Tarik Cohen, North Carolina A&T
Defense: #56 LB Denzel Jones, North Carolina A&T
RefereeMarvel July (Mtn. West)[1]
Halftime showBlue & Gold Marching Machine
Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band
Attendance35,528
PayoutUS$1,000,000 (Per Conference)
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
RedVoice, LLC.
AnnouncersMark Neely, Jay Walker, & Tiffany Greene (ABC)
Sam Crenshaw & Hugh Douglas (RedVoice)
Nielsen ratings1.89 ( viewers)[2]
Celebration Bowl
  2016

The 2015 Celebration Bowl (officially known as the 2015 Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl) was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 19, 2015 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The inaugural Celebration Bowl game pitted the North Carolina A&T Aggies, co-champion of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, against the Alcorn State Braves, champion of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The event was the finale of the 2015 FCS football season for both conferences as their champions abstained from the NCAA Division I FCS football playoffs.

The game kicked off at 12:00 PM (EST) and was televised live on ABC. The game was also carried nationally on the radio by RedVoice, LLC.[citation needed] ESPN Events was the organizer of the game, while the 100 Black Men of Atlanta managed the game's ancillary events. The United States Air Force Reserve were the title sponsors of the game.

22nd ranked North Carolina A&T won the game, beating Alcorn State by the score of 41–34, claiming the 2015 Black college football national championship before an announced crowd of 35,528.[3]

  1. ^ "Alcorn vs NC A&T Scoring Summary" (PDF). ncataggies.com. NC A&T Sports Information. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  2. ^ "SKEDBALL:Weekend Sports TV Ratings 12.19–20.2015". showbuzzdaily.com. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  3. ^ "5 observations from the Celebration Bowl". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.