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List of NCAA Division III football programs. There are 239 NCAA Division III football programs in the United States. Teams and conference affiliations are current for the 2024 season. [1]
2016 Stagg Bowl logo. The NCAA Division III football championship is an American college football tournament played annually to determine a champion at the NCAA Division III level. It was first held in 1973, as a single-elimination playoff with eight teams. Over the past 50 seasons, the number of participants has grown to 32, with the current ...
Division II. Division III. v. t. e. NCAA Division III ( D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their student-athletes. The NCAA's first split was into two divisions, the ...
The Purple Raiders have won a record 13 NCAA Division III national titles and appeared in the championship game 22 times. Alfred State (6-4) won the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference title.
The following is a list of current Division III schools that have participated in the playoffs leading to the NCAA Division III Football Championship. The playoffs began with four teams in 1973 , expanded to 8 teams to 1975 , 16 teams in 1985 , 28 teams in 1999 , and finally 32 teams in 2005 .
Alma scored two touchdowns in the final 4:45 Saturday to stun Mount Union in the second round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs.
Two human polls and a committee's selections comprise the 2023 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III football rankings.Unlike in Division I's Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the NCAA, Division III's college football's governing body, bestows a national championship on the winner of the Stagg Bowl – the championship round of a 32-team postseason tournament.
The 2020–21 NCAA Division III football season was the component of the 2020 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only a few games were played during the traditional fall season, including the annual Secretaries Cup between Coast Guard and Merchant Marine on November 14, 2020.