2004 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 2004

Playoffs

November – December 2004

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champions

Linfield (1)

Gagliardi Trophy

Rocky Myers (S), Wesley (DE)

Division III football seasons
« 2003	2005 »

The 2004 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 2004, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2004 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Linfield Wildcats won their first Division III championship by defeating the Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders, 28−21.

The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Rocky Myers, safety from Wesley (DE).^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
American Southwest Conference – Hardin–Simmons Atlantic Central Football Conference – Salisbury Centennial Conference – Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Johns Hopkins, McDaniel, and Muhlenberg College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Carthage and Wheaton (IL) Empire 8 Conference – Ithaca and St. John Fisher Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Mount St. Joseph Illini-Badger Football Conference – Aurora, Concordia (WI), and Lakeland Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Coe and Wartburg Liberty League – Hobart Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Alma Middle Atlantic Conference – Delaware Valley Midwest Conference – St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Concordia–Moorhead New England Football Conference – Fitchburg State (Bogan Division), Curry and Endicott (Boyd Division) Championship Game: Curry 17, Fitchburg State 7 New England Small College Athletic Conference – Trinity (CT) New Jersey Athletic Conference – Rowan North Coast Athletic Conference – Wooster Northwest Conference – Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Bridgewater Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – DePauw and Trinity (TX) University Athletic Association – Washington–Saint Louis Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Westminster (MO) USA South Athletic Conference – Christopher Newport and Shenandoah Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–La Crosse

Postseason

The 2004 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 32nd 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 12th time. This was the last bracket to feature 28 teams before expanding to 32 teams in 2005. ^[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


		Linfield	52
UW–La Crosse	37	UW–La Crosse	14
St. Norbert	23			Linfield	56
Occidental	28			Occidental	27
Willamette	14	Occidental	42
Concordia–Moorhead	28	Concordia–Moorhead	40
Wartburg	14					Linfield	52
						Rowan	0
		Rowan	45
Hobart	35	Hobart	14
Curry	16			Rowan	56
St. John Fisher	31			Delaware Valley	7
Muhlenberg	3	St. John Fisher	20
Delaware Valley	21	Delaware Valley	26
Shenandoah	17							Linfield	28
								Mary Hardin–Baylor	21
		Hardin–Simmons	28
Mary Hardin–Baylor	32	Mary Hardin–Baylor	42
Trinity (TX)	31			Mary Hardin–Baylor	52
Christopher Newport	35			Wash. & Jefferson	16
Salisbury	24	Christopher Newport	14
Wash. & Jefferson	55**	Wash. & Jefferson	24
Bridgewater (VA)	48					Mary Hardin–Baylor	38
						Mount Union	35
		Mount Union	27
Wheaton (IL)	31	Wheaton (IL)	6
Mount St. Joseph	7			Mount Union	38
Carthage	31			Carthage	20
Alma	28	Carthage	14
Wooster	41	Wooster	7
Aurora	34

* Overtime

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
↑ "2004 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 15. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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2004 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

Playoff bracket

See also

References