1988 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 1988

Playoffs

November – December 1988

Garrett-Harrison Stadium
Phenix City, AL

Division III football seasons
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The 1988 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 1988, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1988 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Ithaca Bombers won their third Division III championship by defeating the Central (IA) Dutch, 39−24.^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
Centennial Conference – Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall College Athletic Conference – Rose–Hulman College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) and Carroll (WI) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Simpson Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Adrian and Alma Middle Atlantic Conference – Moravian and Widener Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Concordia–Moorhead and Hamline New England Football Conference – Plymouth State New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Trenton State North Coast Athletic Conference – Allegheny Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin Wallace and Wittenberg Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Emory & Henry Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Concordia–Saint Paul Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater

Postseason

The 1988 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 16th 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 Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the 14th time and for the fourth consecutive year. Like the previous three tournaments, this year's bracket featured sixteen teams.^[2]

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket

First Round Campus Sites		Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, Alabama


SUNY Cortland	32

Hofstra	17
		SUNY Cortland	17

		Ithaca	24
Ithaca	34*

Wagner	31
				Ithaca	62

				Ferrum	28
Ferrum	34

Rhodes	10
		Ferrum	49

		Moravian	28
Moravian	17

Widener	7
						Ithaca	39

						Central (IA)	24
Wittenberg	35*

Dayton	28
		Wittenberg	14

		Augustana (IL)	28
Augustana (IL)	25

Adrian	7
				Augustana (IL)	17

				Central (IA)	23**
Central (IA)	7

Concordia–Moorhead	0
		Central (IA)	16

		Wisconsin–Whitewater	13
Wisconsin–Whitewater	29

Simpson	27

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ "1988 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 14, 2014.

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1988 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket

See also

References