Victory Bowl
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| NCCAA Victory Bowl | |
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| Location | Various |
| Operated | 1997–2022 |
| Championship affiliation | NCCAA |
| Conference tie-ins | None |
The Victory Bowl was the annual championship game for football-playing members of the National Christian College Athletic Association. It was contested every season from 1997 through 2022 except for cancellations in 2016 and 2020, in the latter case because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NCCAA membership is not exclusive, and many of its institutions belong either to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA); thus, its top football-playing schools were candidates to participate in the Victory Bowl only if they did not qualify for the NCAA or NAIA playoffs. It was possible for schools from the NCAA and NAIA to meet each other in the game. Such matchups happened ten times.
The 48 participants in the game included 30 members of the NAIA, one member of NCAA Division I-AA (today's FCS), 6 members of Division II, and 11 members of Division III.
The first four Victory Bowls (1997 through 2000) were held at a neutral site, Canton, Ohio. The other games were held at the home field of one of the participating teams, except for the 2013 contest, for which Rome, Georgia, served as a neutral site.
Over the years, the expansion of the postseason brackets of Division II, Division III, and the NAIA reduced the number of eligible teams available to compete in the Victory Bowl. In 2016, the bowl title was awarded by default, when just one available team submitted its qualifications for the game. The last Victory Bowl was in 2022; attempts to schedule the game in 2023 and 2024 were unsuccessful due to a lack of available qualified teams.[1][2] As of 2025, the NCCAA no longer sponsors football.
In addition to the game, other Victory Bowl activities typically included community service projects that involved players and coaches from both teams.[3]
History
| Date | Winning team | Losing team | Stadium | ||
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| November 29, 1997 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 56 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 42 | Fawcett Stadium |
| November 28, 1998 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 27 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 6 | Fawcett Stadium |
| November 27, 1999 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 31 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 26 | Fawcett Stadium |
| November 18, 2000 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 35 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 27 | Fawcett Stadium |
| November 17, 2001 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA D I-AA) | 54 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 14 | Ernest W. Spangler Stadium |
| November 22, 2002 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 19 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 9 | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome |
| November 21, 2003 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 37 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DII) | 14 | Reeves Field |
| November 20, 2004 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 24 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 14 | Reynolds Field |
| November 19, 2005 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 29 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 13 | Ward Field |
| November 18, 2006 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DII) | 56 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 28 | Younts Stadium |
| November 17, 2007 | Malone (NAIA) | 45 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 17 | Reeves Field |
| November 21, 2008 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 49 | Malone (NAIA) | 44 | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome |
| November 21, 2009 | Geneva (NCAA DIII) | 29 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 28 | Francis Field |
| November 20, 2010 | North Greenville (NCAA DII) | 42 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 16 | Younts Stadium |
| November 19, 2011 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 21 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 7 | Finley Stadium |
| November 17, 2012 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 28 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 27 | Francis Field |
| November 23, 2013 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DII) | 67 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 0 | Barron Stadium |
| November 22, 2014 | North Greenville (NCAA DII) | 42 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DII) | 16 | Barron Stadium |
| November 21, 2015 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 10 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 7 | Lumpkins Stadium[4] |
| December 3, 2016 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | - | No opponent[a] | - | - |
| November 18, 2017 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 41 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 28 | Finley Stadium |
| November 30, 2018 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 38 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 35 | Spirit Field |
| November 23, 2019 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 69 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NCAA DIII) | 8 | Francis Field |
| 2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[6] | None | |||
| November 20, 2021 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 31 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 14 | Lumpkins Stadium |
| November 18, 2022 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 21 | Script error: No such module "Template wrapper". (NAIA) | 16 | Lumpkins Stadium |
| 2023 | Canceled due to lack of qualifying teams[1][2] | None | |||
| 2024 | |||||
Notes
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2023 NCCAA Victory Bowl". National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2024 NCCAA Victory Bowl". National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jason Orts (May 27, 2010). "Lining up to play and serve: Victory Bowl participants do more than battle in football game". Waco Today.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Football Victory Bowl (2015)". National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2016 Victory Bowl Invitational Banner Awarded to Warner University". National Christian College Athletic Association. August 8, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Victory Bowl History". National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Victory Bowl Archives" (PDF). National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Football Victory Bowl". National Christian College Athletic Association. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
External links
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