The Heritage Bowl is an annual American NCAA Division II college football bowl game held at Community National Bank & Trust Stadium in Corsicana, Texas.
[1] Initially called the Corsicana Bowl, the game was given its current name in 2019.
The two participants are selected on an at-large basis from teams of the Lone Star Conference (LSC), Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), and Great American Conference (GAC) that do not qualify for the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs.
This feature enabled bowl organizers to secure ten different teams for the first five games.
Emporia State, invited in 2018 and 2023, and UT Permian Basin, in 2021 and 2024, are the only repeat participants thus far.