2024 Celebration Bowl
| 2024 Cricket Celebration Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 9th Celebration Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 14, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Mercedes-Benz Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Off: Jacobian Morgan (QB, Jackson State) Def: Jeremiah Williams (DL, Jackson State) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Jackson State by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Rory Bernard (CUSA) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 36,823 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ABC ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | ABC: Tiffany Greene (play-by-play), Jay Walker (analyst), and Quint Kessenich (sideline) ESPN Radio: Jason Ross Jr. (play-by-play), Max Starks (analyst), and Jordan Reid (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | Brazil: ESPN Brazil Canada: TSN1/4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | ESPN Brazil: Conrado Giulietti (play-by-play) and Weinny Eirado (analyst) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Celebration Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 14, 2024, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The ninth annual Celebration Bowl featured South Carolina State, champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and Jackson State, champions of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The game began at approximately 12:00 p.m. EST and aired on ABC. Sponsored by Cricket Wireless, the game was officially known as the Cricket Celebration Bowl.
The SWAC and MEAC are the two NCAA Division I conferences of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Celebration Bowl thus serves as a de facto black college football national championship.
The Celebration Bowl was the only one of the 2024–25 bowl games played by teams from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The NCAA had a 24-team bracket tournament to determine a champion for the 2024 FCS football season.