ECAC Bowl

The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Bowl was a college football bowl game played from 1989 to 2003. From 1993 until its cancellation in 2003, the game pitted the champion of the Northeast Conference against the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion. All games were played on campus sites.

All games involved a team from either New York State or Pennsylvania, and only the 1997 game, hosted by Georgetown University, did not take place in either one of those states. At the time, the NEC and MAAC were two of three conferences (the third being the Pioneer Football League) that did not have an automatic bid into the NCAA Division I Football Championship but had not voluntarily abstained from the tournament; the conferences were notable in that they did not offer football scholarships. The Northeast Conference edged the MAAC in all-time results, with NEC members winning six of the ten games.

By 2003, several of the MAAC universities were closing down their football teams, and the ECAC Bowl was likewise shuttered; this contraction eventually led to the conference's dropping of the sport in 2007. From 2006-2009, the NEC champion instead participated in the Gridiron Classic against the Pioneer Football League champion. The NEC was awarded an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in 2010, with the PFL receiving their bid in 2013.

The ECAC has since sponsored a six-bowl regional bowl series for teams in Division III that do not qualify for that division's NCAA tournament.

Results

Date	Winner		Loser		Venue
November 18, 1989	Franklin & Marshall	31	St. John's	18	Jamaica, NY
November 21, 1992	Wagner	48	Saint Francis (PA)	6	Staten Island, NY
November 20, 1993	Wagner	32	Iona	0	New Rochelle, NY
November 19, 1994	St. John's	34	Wagner	14	Jamaica, NY
November 18, 1995	Duquesne	44	Wagner	20	Pittsburgh, PA
November 23, 1996	Robert Morris	28	Duquesne	26	Pittsburgh, PA
November 22, 1997	Robert Morris	35	Georgetown	13	Washington, DC
December 1, 2001	Sacred Heart	31	Duquesne	15	Pittsburgh, PA
November 23, 2002	Albany	23	Duquesne	0	Albany, NY
November 22, 2003	Duquesne	12	Monmouth	10	Pittsburgh, PA

Sources

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/bowl_results.php?bowlid=334

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