Pioneer Bowl

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Pioneer Bowl
Stadium
Location
Operated 1997 - 2007
Conference Tie-ins CIAA
SIAC
2007 Matchup
Tuskegee vs Virginia Union (58-51)

The Pioneer Bowl is a bowl game between the highest-placing football teams from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It has been played since 1997. This is the only bowl game between historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and is one of only two NCAA Division II sanctioned bowl games.

Tuskegee University has made the most appearances at the Pioneer Bowl with a total seven times. Tuskegee has also won the most Pioneer Bowls with six wins.

The name "Pioneer Bowl" was used in 1993 as the name of a fictional bowl game played at the Alamodome in the television series Coach. There was also a "Pioneer Bowl" held annually from 1971 to 1978 and from 1981 to 1982 in Wichita Falls, Texas for the NCAA Division II.

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[edit] Selectors

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Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC)

[edit] Pioneer Bowl Winners

Year Winner Opponent Score
1997 Kentucky State Livingston 30-26
1998 Tuskegee Livingston 23-9
1999 Winston-Salem Tuskegee 23-7
2000 Tuskegee Winston-Salem 12-9
2001 Tuskegee Virginia Union 28-0
2002 Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled
2003 Albany State Fayetteville 52-30
2004 Shaw Tuskegee 30-28
2005 Tuskegee Bowie State 28-26
2006 Tuskegee Johnson C. Smith 17-7
2007 Tuskegee Virginia Union 58-51

[edit] Earlier Pioneer Bowls

  • 1971 Louisiana Tech 14-3 Eastern Michigan
  • 1972 Tennessee State 29-7 Drake
  • 1973 Louisiana Tech 38-34 Boise State
  • 1974 Central Michigan 35-14 Louisiana Tech
  • 1975 Northern Michigan 28-26 West Alabama
  • 1976 Montana State 24-13 Akron
  • 1977 Lehigh (PA) 33-0 Jacksonville St. (AL)
  • 1978 Florida A&M 35-28 Massachusetts
  • 1979 No Game
  • 1980 No Game
  • 1981 Idaho State 34-23 Eastern Kentucky
  • 1982 Eastern Kentucky 17-14 Delaware

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