The 1992 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 on September 5, 1992, and concluded with the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 19, 1992, in Huntington, West Virginia. The Marshall Thundering Herd defeated the Youngstown State Penguins by a score of 31–28. It was the second consecutive year that Marshall and Youngstown State faced off in the I-AA title game.
Conference changes and new programs Prior to the season, the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, otherwise a women's sports league but sponsoring football as its only men's sport since the 1985 collapse of the football side of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), merged into the MVC. The football league became the standalone Gateway Football Conference, forerunner of the present-day Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC).
School 1991 Conference 1992 Conference Arkansas State I-AA Independent I-A Independent Nevada Big Sky (I-AA) Big West (I-A) Tennessee–Martin D-II Independent Ohio Valley
Conference standings
Conference champions This is a listing of conference champions. Conference Champion Atlantic 10 Conference Delaware Big Sky Conference Idaho and Eastern Washington Ivy League Dartmouth and Princeton Gateway Football Conference Northern Iowa Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference North Carolina A&T Ohio Valley Conference Middle Tennessee Patriot League Lafayette Southern Conference The Citadel Southland Conference Northeast Louisiana Southwestern Athletic Conference Alcorn State
Postseason Only the top four teams in the field were seeded, and thus assured of home games in their first-round games. The site of the title game, Marshall University Stadium, had been predetermined months before the playoffs began.
NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket
* Next to team name denotes host institution
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Final poll standings
NCAA RankingTeam 1 The Citadel 1 Northeast Louisiana 3 Northern Iowa 4 Middle Tennessee 5 Idaho 6 Marshall 7 Youngstown State 8 Delaware 9 Samford 10 Villanova 11 McNeese State 12 Eastern Kentucky 13 William & Mary 14 Eastern Washington 15 Florida A&M 16 Appalachian State 17 North Carolina A&T 18 Alcorn State 19 Liberty 20 Western Illinois
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