The 1989 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 1989, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1989 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Dayton Flyers won their second Division III championship by defeating the Union (NY) Dutchmen, 17−7.
Conference changes and new programs The Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference, which was founded in 1987, began sponsoring football in 1989. School 1988 Conference 1989 Conference Anderson NAIA Independent Indiana Assumption D-III Independent ECFC Bentley D-III Independent ECFC DePauw D-III Independent ICAC Earlham CAC NCAC Fordham Liberty (D-III) I-AA Independent Franklin (IN) NAIA Independent ICAC Gannon Program Revived D-III Independent Hanover NAIA Independent ICAC John Carroll PAC OAC MacMurray D-III Independent IBHFC (NAIA) Manchester NAIA Independent Indiana Marist D-III Independent ACFC Maritime ACFC Dropped Program Methodist New Program D-III Independent Millsaps D-III Independent CAC MIT D-III Independent ECFC Rose-Hulman CAC ICAC Saint Francis (PA) D-III Independent ACFC Saint Peter's Restarted Program D-III Independent Stonehill D-III Independent ECFC Taylor NAIA Independent ICAC Trinity (TX) D-III Independent CAC Wabash D-III Independent ICAC Western New England NEFC ECFC Wittenberg OAC NCAC
Conference standings
Conference champions Conference championsCentennial Conference – Dickinson College Athletic Conference – Centre College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Millikin Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference – Hanover Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Adrian and Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Lycoming and Susquehanna Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Bridgewater State New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State North Coast Athletic Conference – Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan Ohio Athletic Conference – John Carroll Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Presidents' Athletic Conference – Carnegie Mellon and Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Howard Payne and Tarleton State Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–La Crosse
Postseason The 1989 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 17th 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 Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the 15th, and final, time and for the fifth consecutive year. Like the previous four tournaments, this year's bracket featured sixteen teams.
Playoff bracket
See also 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season 1989 NCAA Division II football season 1989 NAIA Division I football season 1989 NAIA Division II football season
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