1984 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 1984

Playoffs

November – December 1984

Galbreath Field
Kings Island, Mason, Ohio

Division III football seasons
« 1983	1985 »

The 1984 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1984 at Galbreath Field in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won the second of their four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Central (Iowa) Dutch by a final score of 21−12.^[1]

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

The North Coast Athletic Conference began football play in 1984.

Program changes

After Southwestern University at Memphis changed its name to Rhodes College in 1984, the Southwestern Lynx became the Rhodes Lynx at the start of the 1984 season.

Conference champions

Conference Champions
Centennial Conference – Gettysburg and Swarthmore College Athletic Conference – Centre College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) Independent College Athletic Conference – Ithaca Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central College (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hope Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Cornell College Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Hamline New England Football Conference – Plymouth State New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State North Coast Athletic Conference – Case Western Reserve Northwest Conference – Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin Wallace Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Northwestern–St. Paul Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–River Falls and Wisconsin–Whitewater

Postseason

The 1984 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 12th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio for the second consecutive time. This was the final tournament to feature eight teams before expanding to sixteen in 1984.^[2]

Playoff bracket

Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Galbreath Field Kings Island, Mason, OH


Union (NY)	26

Plymouth State	14
		Union (NY)	6

		Augustana (IL)	23
Augustana (IL)	14

Dayton	13
				Augustana (IL)	21

				Central (IA)	12
Washington & Jefferson	22

Randolph–Macon	21
		Washington & Jefferson	0

		Central (IA)	20
Central (IA)	23

Occidental	22

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
↑ "1984 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 7, 2014.

NCAA football seasons

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