The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of

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, Canada's national competition for university teams that play

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. It is held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to face the Mitchell Bowl champion for the

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. It was named for Larry Uteck, a former professional football player and university coach who died of

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(ALS) in 2002.

History

The Atlantic Bowl traditionally saw the Atlantic University Sport champions face a champion from another conference at

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in Halifax. However, in the interests of competitive fairness, the Atlantic Bowl was replaced by the Mitchell Bowl, its venue, like the Churchill Bowl that had paralleled it for so long, rotating among two of the conference champions. Larry Uteck was a longtime football coach at Saint Mary's University and, at the time, the university's athletic director. It was decided that the Churchill Bowl would be retired, the Mitchell Bowl would take the place of the Churchill Bowl, and a new championship would be named in Uteck's memory. Thus, the Uteck Bowl formally replaced the Atlantic Bowl. The inaugural Uteck Bowl was played at

, where two-time defending

champions and home team

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defeated the

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. The 2020 game was cancelled due to the

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Uteck Bowl champions

Future participants

The teams and host sites of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl rotate on a six-year cycle, so that in each cycle each of the four conferences hosts and visits every other conference once. With the 2020 game cancelled, the cycle was delayed by one year with the 2020 teams playing in 2021. The participants and sites for future Uteck Bowl games are listed below: To date, the Uteck Bowl games hosted by Quebec have been played at the champion's home field, while the first four games hosted by Atlantic University Sport (AUS) were played at

in Halifax. The 2011 game was held in

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at the newly built

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. All subsequent games were hosted by the Loney Bowl champion.AUS announces 2013 football schedule
/ref> As of 2023, home teams have a record of 11–9.

Team win–loss records

References

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