The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama which is made up of historically black universities in the southern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA for football and its Division I for all other sports.

The SWAC is one of three conferences (the others being the Ivy League and the Pioneer Football League) which do not participate in postseason play in the I-AA football tournament—and is the only one of the three whose members offer scholarships for football. (The Ivy League does not award athletic scholarships at all; Pioneer League members may offer scholarships in other sports, but do not award football scholarships.) The SWAC splits its schools into two divisions (which the Pioneer League also did from 2001 through 2005), and instead plays a conference championship game. Furthermore, one SWAC match — the Southern (BR) vs Grambling State game — is positioned on the schedule after the NCAA tournament has begun.

These moves have been criticized by other conferences containing historically black universities, especially the only other Division I conference made up entirely of such schools, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, which annually places its champion into the I-AA tournament.

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