[3][a] The game is held annually in Atlanta on the third weekend of December, and has been played at the Georgia Dome and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

At the time the Celebration Bowl was inaugurated, the SWAC's regular season already extended too late into the year for its champion to enter the FCS playoffs, while the MEAC dropped its automatic bid to the FCS playoffs in order to send its champion to the Celebration Bowl.

[10] However, in June 2018,[11] the SWAC reversed course and continues to hold its championship game, with the winner advancing to the Celebration Bowl.

[12] In 2020, the Celebration Bowl was not played, after the MEAC canceled all fall athletics due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the SWAC postponed its football season into the spring of 2021.

Television and radio coverage of the bowl has included play-by-play announcers, color commentators, and sideline reporters.