The Deriso Report always seems to be biased towards the SWAC. They wrote that FAMU and SC State first supported the Legacy Bowl and that is completely false! From the beginning, they were both vocal about their opposition of the game. Dr Ammons of FAMU addressed the Alumni and informed us of his opposition of the game when it first came out which is how most of us found out about it. In fact, no MEAC school has gone on record supporting the Legacy Bowl. The opposition was so heated to where Commissioner Thomas moved the vote from Nov to March and issued a gag order to the schools hoping he could mount some support by then.

There are even SWAC schools that want to return to participating in the playoffs. JSU is very vocal about returning to the playoffs and has even mentioned leaving the SWAC to do so.