2002 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 2002

Playoffs

November – December 2002

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champions

Mount Union (7)

Gagliardi Trophy

Dan Pugh (RB), Mount Union

Division III football seasons
« 2001	2003 »

The 2002 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 2002, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2002 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Mount Union Purple Raiders won their seventh, and third consecutive, Division III championship by defeating the Trinity (TX) Tigers, 48−7.

The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Dan Pugh, running back from Mount Union.^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin–Baylor Atlantic Central Football Conference – Frostburg State Centennial Conference – Johns Hopkins, McDaniel, and Muhlenberg College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Wheaton (IL) Dixie Intercollegiate Football Conference – Christopher Newport and Ferrum Empire 8 Conference – Ithaca Freedom Football Conference – Springfield Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Hanover Illini-Badger Football Conference – MacMurray Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA), Coe, and Wartburg Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Alma Middle Atlantic Conference – King's College and Widener Midwest Conference – Lake Forest and St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Westfield State (Bogan Division), UMass Dartmouth (Boyd Division) Championship Game: UMass Dartmouth 16, Westfield State 0 New England Small College Athletic Conference – Trinity (CT) and Williams New Jersey Athletic Conference – Rowan North Coast Athletic Conference – Wabash Northwest Conference – Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Bridgewater Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Redlands Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX) University Athletic Association – Washington–Saint Louis Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Northwestern–St. Paul Upstate Collegiate Athletic Conference – Hobart Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–La Crosse

Postseason

The 2002 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 30th 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 Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the 10th time. This was the fourth bracket to feature 28 teams since last expanding in 1999.^[2]

Playoff bracket

First Round Campus Sites		Second Round Campus Sites		Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia


		Mount Union	42
Wheaton (IL)	42	Wheaton (IL)	21
Alma	14			Mount Union	45
Wabash	42			Wabash	16
MacMurray	7	Wabash	25
Wittenberg	34	Wittenberg	14
Hanover	33					Mount Union	57
						John Carroll	19
		Rowan	12
Brockport	16	Brockport	15
Springfield	0			Brockport	10
John Carroll	27			John Carroll	16*
Hobart	7	John Carroll	21
Muhlenberg	56	Muhlenberg	10
UMass Dartmouth	6							Mount Union	48
								Trinity (TX)	7
		Linfield	52
Wartburg	45	Wartburg	15
Lake Forest	0			Linfield	14
Saint John's (MN)	31			Saint John's (MN)	21
Redlands	24	Saint John's (MN)	45
Coe	21	Coe	14
UW–La Crosse	18					Saint John's (MN)	34
						Trinity (TX)	41
		Bridgewater (VA)	19
King's (PA)	28	King's (PA)	17
Salisbury State	0			Bridgewater (VA)	32
Trinity (TX)	48			Trinity (TX)	38
Mary Hardin–Baylor	38	Trinity (TX)	45
Wash. & Jefferson	24	Wash. & Jefferson	10
Christopher Newport	10

* Overtime

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
↑ "2002 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 15. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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2002 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

Playoff bracket

See also

References