| 2022 HBCU Legacy Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1st HBCU Legacy Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | February 19, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Yulman Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Geremy Hickbottom (QB, Tennessee State) & Antwan Collier (DB, Florida A&M)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Tonya Boyd-Cannon[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Tuta Salaam[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | GSU Tiger Marching Band[4] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | NFL Network | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 2022 HBCU Legacy Bowl was a post-season college football all-star game played on February 19, 2022, at Yulman StadiuminNew Orleans, Louisiana. It was the inaugural edition of the HBCU Legacy Bowl, whose founding was announced by the Black College Football Hall of Fame on March 18, 2021. The game was the last of the all-star games that concluded the 2021–22 bowl games. Television coverage was provided by NFL Network.
The bowl's teams are named after Jake Gaither, coach of the Florida A&M Rattlers from 1945 to 1973, and Eddie Robinson, coach of the Grambling State Tigers from 1941 to 1997.
Football programs representing historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) primarily compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) in NCAA Division II, and the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
On September 1, 2021, Aqeel Glass, quarterback for the Alabama A&M Bulldogs, became the first player to be selected for the HBCU Legacy Bowl.[5][6] As the 2021 season progressed, the game's website was updated with players who confirmed plans to participate in the game. Those players are listed below.[7]
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Several game-specific rules were used:[8]
2022 HBCU Legacy Bowl
| Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Team Robinson | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Team Gaither | 0 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 22 |
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| Statistics | ROB | GAIT |
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| First downs | 10 | 22 |
| Plays–yards | 49–136 | 71–344 |
| Rushes–yards | 21–31 | 29–91 |
| Passing yards | 105 | 253 |
| Passing: comp–att–int | 11–28–0 | 27–42–0 |
| Time of possession | 18:27 | 41:33 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| ROB | Passing | Aqeel Glass (Alabama A&M) | 4–15, 51 YDS |
| Rushing | Ezra Gray (Alabama State) | 4 CAR, 33 YDS | |
| Receiving | Dee Anderson (Alabama A&M) | 3 REC, 33 YDS | |
| GAIT | Passing | Bryce Witt (Chowan) | 15–21, 131 YDS, 1 TD |
| Rushing | Bryce Witt (Chowan) | 3 CAR, 32 YDS | |
| Receiving | Marquis McClain (Southern) | 7 REC, 84 YDS |
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