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=List of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Football Champions=

The list of 'Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football champions includes 10 distinct teams that have won the college football championship awarded by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference since its creation. In total, 13 teams have sponsored football in the conference. The conference was formed in 1969 when six members of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and one member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) met in Durham, North Carolina met with the purpose of discussing the organization of a new conference that would compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level in all sports. After the formulation of a committee, and their research reported; Delaware State University Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University, from the CIAA, and South Carolina State University, of the SIAC, agreed to form the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The new conference was confirmed in 1970 and had its first season of competition in football in 1971 with Morgan State claiming the inaugural championship.

Currently, the conference's football teams compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA. To date, there are six football-playing members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Delaware State, Howard, Morgan State, Norfolk State, North Carolina Central and South Carolina State.

As of the 2015 Season, the MEAC is one of several conferences which does not participate in the NCAA Division I FCS Playoffs, the annual post-season tournament, that declares a national champion. Teams from the conference are eligible for at-large bids, however, the conference champion competes in the Celebration Bowl against the champion from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

South Carolina State holds the distinction of claiming the most MEAC championships at 16, with 7 of under the conference's most successful Head Coach Oliver "Buddy" Pough.

Co-champions are placed in the order they appeared in the season's final standings, with the team winning the conference's tiebreaker listed first.