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The Southwestern Athletic Conference ('''SWAC''') is a College Athletic Conference made up of Historically Black Universities in the southern United States . It participates in the NCAA 's Division I-AA for Football and its Division I for all other sports. The SWAC is one of three conferences (the others being the Ivy League and the Pioneer Football League ) which do not participate in postseason play in the I-AA football tournament—and is the only one of the three whose members offer scholarships for football. (The Ivy League does not award athletic scholarships at all; Pioneer League members may offer scholarships in other sports, but do not award football scholarships.) Like the Pioneer League, the SWAC splits its schools into two divisions, and instead plays a conference championship game. Furthermore, one SWAC match — the Southern (BR) Vs Grambling State Game — is positioned on the schedule after the NCAA tournament has begun. These moves been criticized by other conferences containing historically black universities, especially the only other Division I conference made up entirely of such schools, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference , which annually places its champion into the I-AA tournament. CURRENT MEMBER SCHOOLS EXTERNAL LINK |
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