1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1982 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 1982
Playoff
Duration	November 27–December 18, 1982
Championship site	Memorial Stadium, Wichita Falls, TX
Champion	Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Division I-AA football season
«1981 1983»

The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level, began in August 1982, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 18, 1982, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens by a final score of 17−14.^[1]

Conference changes and new programs

Before the 1982 season, three conferences, and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA:

• Ivy League — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale
• Southern Conference — Appalachian State, Chattanooga, East Tennessee State, Furman, Marshall, The Citadel, VMI, and Western Carolina
• Southland Conference — Arkansas State, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, and Texas–Arlington
  • Southwestern Louisiana, who had been a member of the Southland during the 1981 season, remained in Division I-A as an Independent.

School	1981 Conference	1982 Conference
Alabama State	D-II Independent	SWAC (I-AA)
Colgate	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Holy Cross	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Indiana State	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Richmond	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Western Kentucky	Ohio Valley	I-AA Independent
William & Mary	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent

Conference standings

1982 Big Sky football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T #19 Montana $ 5 – 2 – 0     6 – 6 – 0 #11 Idaho 5 – 2 – 0     9 – 4 – 0 Montana State 5 – 2 – 0     6 – 5 – 0 #15 Boise State 4 – 3 – 0     8 – 3 – 0 Nevada 3 – 4 – 0     6 – 5 – 0 Northern Arizona 3 – 4 – 0     4 – 7 – 0 Weber State 2 – 5 – 0     4 – 7 – 0 Idaho State 1 – 6 – 0     3 – 8 – 0 $ – Conference champion Montana earned automatic berth in NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. Idaho earned at-large berth in NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA poll (released before championship playoffs)	Template:1982 Ivy League football standings	1982 Mid-Continent football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Eastern Illinois + 2 – 0 – 1     11 – 1 – 1 Northern Iowa + 2 – 0 – 1     4 – 6 – 1 Southwest Missouri State 1 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 Western Illinois 0 – 3 – 0     2 – 8 – 0 + – Conference co-champions
Template:1982 MEAC football standings	Template:1982 Ohio Valley football standings	1982 Southern Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team   W   L         W   L   Furman $^   6 – 1         9 – 3   Chattanooga   5 – 1         7 – 4   Western Carolina   4 – 2         6 – 5   The Citadel   3 – 4         5 – 6   Appalachian State   3 – 4         4 – 7   VMI   2 – 3         5 – 6   East Tennessee State   2 – 5         2 – 9   Marshall   1 – 6         3 – 7   $ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
1982 Southland Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T #2 Louisiana Tech $^ 5 – 0 – 0     10 – 3 – 0 Northeast Louisiana 4 – 1 – 0     8 – 3 – 0 Arkansas State 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 McNeese State 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 6 – 1 Lamar 1 – 4 – 0     4 – 7 – 0 Texas-Arlington 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 8 – 0 North Texas 0 – 0 – 0     2 – 9 – 0 $ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll	Template:1982 SWAC football standings	1982 Yankee Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Boston University +^ 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 Maine + 3 – 2 – 0     7 – 4 – 0 Connecticut + 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 UMass + 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 Rhode Island 2 – 3 – 0     7 – 4 – 0 New Hampshire 1 – 4 – 0     4 – 6 – 0 + – Conference co-champions ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from NCAA I-AA Poll
1982 Division I-AA independent football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Delaware ^   –       12 – 2 – 0 Tennessee State ^   –       10 – 1 – 1 Holy Cross   –       8 – 3 – 0 Colgate ^   –       8 – 4 – 0 James Madison   –       8 – 3 – 0 Lafayette   –       7 – 3 – 0 Nicholls State   –       7 – 4 – 0 Northwestern State   –       6 – 5 – 0 Western Kentucky   –       5 – 5 – 0 SE Louisiana   –       4 – 7 – 0 Bucknell   –       4 – 6 – 0 Lehigh   –       4 – 6 – 0 William & Mary   –       3 – 8 – 0 Richmond   –       0 – 10 – 0 $ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

Conference champions

Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – Montana Ivy League – Dartmouth, Harvard, and Penn Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina State Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Kentucky Southern Conference – Furman Southland Conference – Louisiana Tech Southwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson State Yankee Conference – Boston University, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts

Postseason

NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

First Round November 27 Campus Sites

Quarterfinals December 4 Campus Sites

Semifinals December 11 Campus Sites

National Championship Game December 18

Richmond, KY

Moscow, ID

Eastern Kentucky

38

Idaho

17

Richmond, KY

Idaho

30

Montana

3

Eastern Kentucky

13

Nashville, TN

Charleston, IL

Tennessee State

7

Tennessee State

20

Eastern Illinois

16

Wichita Falls, TX – Memorial Stadium

Eastern Illinois

19

Jackson State

13

Eastern Kentucky

17

Ruston, LA

Greenville, SC

Delaware

14

Louisiana Tech

17

Furman

0

Ruston, LA

South Carolina State

19

South Carolina State

17

Louisiana Tech

0

Newark, DE

Hamilton, NY

Delaware

17

Delaware

20

Colgate

21

Colgate

13

Boston U.

7

References

1. "1982 NCAA Division I Football Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved December 26, 2013.