The Florida Beach Bowl is an annual American
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
Unlike most ...
bowl game contested between
NCAA Division II teams from the
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), two
athletic conferences traditionally consisting of
historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The first edition of the bowl was played on December 13, 2023, at
DRV PNK Stadium in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...
.
The Florida Beach Bowl is one of four Division II sanctioned bowl games. The others are the
America's Crossroads Bowl,
Heritage Bowl
The Heritage Bowl was a NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) bowl game held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The bowl pitted a team from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) against a team from the Southwe ...
, and
Live United Texarkana Bowl
The Live United Texarkana Bowl, known under a naming rights agreement as the Fun Town RV Live United Bowl, is a college football bowl game played annually in Texarkana, Arkansas between teams from NCAA Division II. It is one of four NCAA Division ...
.
History
280px, upright=1.1, DRV PNK Stadium in November 2021
The bowl was announced in September 2023 by organizers and officials with
Inter Miami CF, who operate the host stadium. Urban Edge Network (UEN) was subsequently announced as the broadcaster for the bowl,
[ and Amerant Bank as the official sponsor.
The Florida Beach Bowl revives the CIAA–SIAC postseason matchup of the defunct ]Pioneer Bowl
The Pioneer Bowl was the name of some December college football bowl games played in two different eras. Between 1971 and 1982, the game was contested 10 times in Texas as an NCAA College Division regional final, or as a playoff game for Divisio ...
, contested from 1997 to 2012. To be eligible for the bowl, a team must have at least six wins,
Game results
References
External links
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College football bowls
NCAA Division II football
American football in Florida
Recurring sporting events established in 2023
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