The Medal of Honor Bowl was an American college football all-star game played in Charleston, South Carolina, in January 2014 and 2015.
Primary beneficiaries of the game were the Medal of Honor Museum on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and, initially, the Wounded Warrior Project.
[2][3] In 2004, Tommy McQueeney, a former Citadel Board of Visitors member, led an ownership group interested in starting a Charleston-based college bowl game, the "Palmetto Bowl", but was blocked by an NCAA ban on playing postseason games at pre-determined locations in South Carolina due to the Confederate battle flag being flown at a civil war monument on the State House grounds.
[13] Medal of Honor Bowl organizers tentatively set a date of January 7, 2017, for playing the game under its prior all-star format.
[14] In September 2016, organizers announced that the bowl would be suspended, due to Johnson Hagood Stadium having "myriad issues related to structural integrity and lead paint mitigation.