The 1984 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1984 at Galbreath Field in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won the second of their four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Central (Iowa) Dutch by a final score of 21−12.
Conference and program changes
Conference changes The North Coast Athletic Conference began football play in 1984.
School 1983 Conference 1984 Conference Earlham HBC (NAIA) CAC Fitchburg State Club Program D-III Independent Fisk CAC Dropped Program Case Western Reserve PAC NCAC Catholic ODAC Independent Denison OAC NCAC Kenyon OAC NCAC Oberlin OAC NCAC Ohio Wesleyan OAC NCAC Principia CAC D-III Independent Wooster OAC NCAC Allegheny PAC NCAC Grove City D-III Independent PAC Samford Revived Program D-III Independent Stony Brook New Program D-III Independent
Program changes Fisk University closed its football program. After Southwestern University at Memphis changed its name to Rhodes College in 1984, the Southwestern Lynx became the Rhodes Lynx at the start of the 1984 season. The Villanova University football program was officially reinstated with St. Lawrence University head coach Andy Talley hired to the same position, as a Division III program. The program simply practiced and redshirted the entire team in preparation for a 1985 launch as a limited-season team. Samford revived their football program after cutting it in 1973. Stony Brook began their football program in 1984.
Conference standings
Conference champions Conference championsCentennial Conference – Gettysburg and Swarthmore College Athletic Conference – Centre College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) Independent College Athletic Conference – Ithaca Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central College (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hope Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Cornell College Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Hamline New England Football Conference – Plymouth State New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State North Coast Athletic Conference – Case Western Reserve Northwest Conference – Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin Wallace Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Northwestern–St. Paul Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–River Falls and Wisconsin–Whitewater
Postseason The 1984 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 12th 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 Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio for the second consecutive time. This was the final tournament to feature eight teams before expanding to sixteen in 1985.
Playoff bracket
See also 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season 1984 NCAA Division II football season
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