PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- The lack of a win in the FCS playoffs since 1999 and a big annual payday have the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference considering significant change to its postseason plans.
The MEAC could relinquish its automatic bid to the playoffs to have its champion face the top team from the other historically black conference in the FCS, the Southwestern Athletic Conference, in an ESPN-funded postseason bowl, similar to MEAC-SWAC Challenge each opening weekend (this year, it's South Carolina State taking on Arkansas-Pine Bluff).
The estimate with a bowl game is that each conference would received $1 million to split among members. Floyd Kerr, the athletic director of last year's MEAC playoff qualifier Morgan State, said in a December radio interview that it's going to happen.
Even if the idea doesn't come off this year, the competitiveness within the 11-team MEAC will be high. Morgan State, Bethune-Cookman, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central and South Carolina State combined on a five-way tie for the title a year ago, and each remains in this year's title picture in a conference boasting four new head coaches ... as well as questions across the quarterback position.
Here's a look across the ...
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