Medal of Honor Bowl

Medal of Honor Bowl
Stadium	Johnson Hagood Stadium
Location	Charleston, South Carolina
Operated	2014–
Conference tie-ins	None
Former names
Legends Bowl (proposed)

Medal of Honor Bowl is a college all-star game not sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Primary beneficiaries of the bowl game are Medal of Honor Museum on the USS Yorktown Aircraft carrier and the Wounded Warrior Project.

A Tommy McQueeney, a former Citadel Board of Visitors member, lead ownership group was interested in starting in 2004 a Charleston-based college bowl game, Palmetto Bowl, but was blocked by a NCAA ban on playing postseason games at predetermined locations in South Carolina due to the Confederate battle flag being flown at a civil war monument on the State House grounds.

The bowl attempt was revived as the proposed Legends Bowl at Johnson Hagood Stadium beginning in 2014 featuring teams from the Sun Belt and Mid-American Conferences with NBCSN as its broadcasting partner.

The Medal of Honor Bowl was announced on October 11, 2014, by the Legends Bowl organizers as a college football all-star game in place of the proposed Legends Bowl due to the NCAA ban. An all star game does not require the NCAA bowl committee's approval as the players involved have exhausted their college eligibility. The first game was scheduled for January 11, 2014 at Hagood Stadium with the expectation of drawing players from SEC and ACC conferences. The Bowl organization agreed to a five-year agreement with the Citadel for its Johnson-Hagood Stadium.

The American and National teams for 2014 were chosen from a pool of 300 players by the executive director Brian Woods, who used the player profile of those drafted in the fourth to seventh rounds.