The 1991 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1991, and concluded with the 1991 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 21, 1991, at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia. The Youngstown State Penguins won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Marshall Thundering Herd by a score of 25−17.
Conference changes and new programs Team 1990 conference 1991 conference Hofstra D-III independent I-AA independent Nicholls State I-AA independent Southland Conference Prairie View A&M Revived program Southwestern Athletic Conference Southeast Missouri State Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (D-II) Ohio Valley Conference
Conference standings
Conference champions
Conference ChampionsBig Sky Conference – Nevada Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference – Northern Iowa Ivy League – Dartmouth Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – North Carolina A&T Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Kentucky Patriot League – Holy Cross Southern Conference – Appalachian State Southland Conference – McNeese State and Sam Houston State Southwestern Athletic Conference – Alabama State Yankee Conference – Delaware, New Hampshire, and Villanova
Postseason Only the top four teams in the field were seeded, and thus assured of home games in their first round games. The location of the final, the Georgia Southern Eagles' Paulson Stadium, had been predetermined via a three-year agreement the university reached with the NCAA in February 1989.
NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket
* Next to team name denotes host institution
* Next to score denotes host overtime period
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