With more than two million households tuned into the inaugural Celebration Bowl between North Carolina A&T and Alcorn State last month, the newly-established black college football championship game took to Twitter to take a few journalists to task about the value of the game, and its participating teams.
First, the official announcement for the ratings returns.
The inaugural @AirForceReserve Celebration Bowl drew a 1.7 final rating & attracted 2.5 million TV viewers #Exposure pic.twitter.com/AcpzIF8Wbv
— AFR Celebration Bowl (@CelebrationBowl) January 5, 2016
Then, a dig at all of the other Football Championship Subdivision televised games which didn’t outdraw the Celebration Bowl, including the NCAA FCS title game and the Bayou Classic.
FCS Football TV viewership #’s:
Celebration Bowl – 2.5M
FCS Championship – 1.4M
FCS Kickoff – 1M
Bayou Classic – 150K
2014 Bayou (NBC) – 1M— AFR Celebration Bowl (@CelebrationBowl) January 5, 2016
Next, a swipe at the Associated Press for snubbing NCA&T running back Tarik Cohen on its all-bowl team list.
Remember allll the way back to the 1st bowl of the season when @NCATAGGIES RB Tarik Cohen went off for 295? https://t.co/B2WhIwofLQ
— AFR Celebration Bowl (@CelebrationBowl) January 5, 2016
And finally, a swipe at a CBS Sports writer who tried to rank all of the BCS bowl games.
Hey Tom, we might not feature FBS teams but we outdrew and out-rated nearly half of the bowls on this list! ? https://t.co/dOjnUFgX9b
— AFR Celebration Bowl (@CelebrationBowl) January 5, 2016
The Celebration Bowl – the good idea that turned into an epic Twitter-trolling rant on behalf of HBCUs.
Are you saying that they trolled HBCU’s? I’m not quite understanding .
Neverending I got it
It’s a bowl game, not a championship game. It’s even in the name. Big difference.
In HBCU culture, the game is regarded as the unofficial HBCU national championship. It features the champions of the two historically black FCS conferences, and therefore bears out fans’ labeling of the game as a title game. Previously, the HBCU national champion was decided by poll. This game eliminates the selection process, much as the BCS playoff system does for power conference schools.
This game eliminates the selection process, much as the BCS playoff system does for power conference schools.
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Not true because you have Tenn St and other DII HBCU programs that traditionally have been considered in the polls as well.
True, but for DII schools, the HSRN, BoxToRow polls still crown a national champion. For Tenn. State – better join the SWAC. LOL!