DOYLESTOWN (PA) – The Centennial Conference and the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) announced the match-ups for the Second Annual Centennial-MAC Bowl Series and Delaware Valley University will travel to Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.) in one of the meetings on Saturday, November 19.
Albright College will host Franklin & Marshall College in the other Centennial-MAC Bowl contest. The kickoff times of both games will be decided in a conference call with the participating institutions on Monday morning.
- UPDATE: Game time is set for 12 p.m.
The Centennial and the MAC announced on Nov. 5, 2015 their partnership to hold two postseason football games between member institutions. The Centennial-MAC Bowl Series involves the top two teams from each conference that are not selected to the NCAA Division III Championship. The top team from each conference that is not selected to the NCAA Division III Championship will host the second best team from the opposing conference not moving on to NCAAs in one game of the series
DelVal finished the regular season with an 8-2 overall record, 7-2 and tied for second place behind NCAA qualifier Stevenson University (Albright won the tiebreaker and the right to host thanks to its last-second win over the Aggies in September). It marks the ninth straight year and the 13
th time in the last 14 season that DelVal has reached the postseason thanks to six NCAA berths, five ECAC Bowl games and the first two Centennial-MAC Bowl Series. The Aggies downed Moravian College, 20-16, in last year's inaugural contest. DelVal clinched the 2016 postseason berth with Saturday's 45-7 triumph at archrival Widener University.
Muhlenberg (9-1 overall, 8-1 Centennial) placed second in the Centennial standings, trailing only NCAA qualifier Johns Hopkins University. The Mules have won six in a row, including Saturday's 31-12 victory at Moravian College.
DelVal and Muhlenberg three straight years from 2010 to 2012 with the Aggies winning each match-up. Two of the triumphs took place in Allentown, including a 24-21 victory in the 2012 ECAC South Atlantic Bowl.
Ticket prices for both Centennial-MAC Bowl Series games will be $5 for adults, $2 for students (elementary through college) and free for Special Olympics athletes and children under six. The two conferences will support the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) partnership with Special Olympics by donating 25 percent of ticket revenue generated during the Bowl Series to the organization.