Albanese Candy Bowl
NCAA Division II football bowl game
The Albanese Candy Bowl is an annual NCAA Division II college football bowl game held at Brickyard Stadium in Hobart, Indiana. The game operates as a partnership between the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, and the city of Hobart, Indiana. Originally known as America's Crossroads Bowl, the game was renamed in 2025 when Albanese Confectionery Group of Hobart became its title sponsor.
Currently, the Albanese Candy Bowl is one of three Division II sanctioned bowl games, along with the Heritage Bowl and First Americans Bowl. The top-placing teams from the GLVC and G-MAC not qualifying for the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs receive an invitation to compete.
History
The creation of America's Crossroads Bowl was announced in April 2019, at a joint press conference including officials of the GLVC, the G-MAC, the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, and the city of Hobart.
In the seasons prior to the creation of the bowl, neither the GLVC nor the G-MAC had ever sent more than one team to the Division II playoffs, and it was assumed the game would match the second-place finishers of the two conferences. For the G-MAC, this was the case for every game through 2024, with the conference sending a team finishing the season in second (or a second-place tie) behind the conference's lone Division II playoff qualifier. In 2025, when the G-MAC sent three teams to the playoffs, the conference was represented by fifth-place Hillsdale rather than fourth-place Tiffin, which had gone to the bowl the previous year.
The GLVC sent third-place Truman State as its representative to the inaugural game, because Lindenwood and Indianapolis both qualified for the Division II playoffs in 2019.
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