The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Championship Game or PSAC Football Championship is a yearly American football championship game between two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference teams (East and West division champions) to decide the champions of the PSAC.
The championship games date back to 1960 where West Chester was the first to win, however champions had been selected by sportswriters and the Saylor Point System since 1934. Champions have been decided every year since then, except for three years during World War II, and in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic when PSAC did not compete.
Home advantage alternates each year, with the east division champion hosting every odd-numbered year and the west division champion hosting every even-numbered year.
List of champions Prior to Championship Game Year Champion 1934 IUP 1935 Shippensburg 1936 Lock Haven 1937 Lock Haven 1938 Mansfield 1939 Slippery Rock 1940 IUP/Millersville 1941 Millersville 1942 East Stroudsburg 1943 No Champion 1944 No Champion 1945 No Champion 1946 California (PA) 1947 Mansfield 1948 Bloomsburg 1949 Bloomsburg 1950 West Chester 1951 Bloomsburg 1952 West Chester 1953 West Chester 1954 Bloomsburg/East Stroudsburg/West Chester 1955 Bloomsburg 1956 West Chester 1957 Lock Haven/Shippensburg 1958 California (PA) 1959 West Chester In 1943, 1944, 1945 no teams competed in PSAC play due to WWII.
Championship Game Year Champion Score Loser 1960 West Chester 35–6 Lock Haven 1961 West Chester 21–0 Slippery Rock 1962 Slippery Rock 13–6 East Stroudsburg 1963 West Chester 36–7 Slippery Rock 1964 East Stroudsburg 27–14 IUP 1965 East Stroudsburg 26–10 IUP 1966 Clarion 28–26 West Chester 1967 West Chester 27–7 Clarion 1968 California (PA) 28–28 East Stroudsburg 1969 West Chester 41–34 Clarion 1970 Edinboro 14–6 West Chester 1971 West Chester 35–14 Edinboro 1972 Slippery Rock 29–27 West Chester 1973 Slippery Rock 28–14 West Chester 1974 Slippery Rock 20–7 West Chester 1975 East Stroudsburg 24–20 Edinboro 1976 East Stroudsburg 14–14 Shippensburg 1977 Clarion 25–24 Millersville 1978 East Stroudsburg 49–3 Clarion 1979 Lock Haven 48–14 Cheney 1980 Clarion 15–14 Kutztown 1981 Shippensburg 34–17 Millersville 1982 East Stroudsburg 24–22 Edinboro 1983 Clarion 27–14 East Stroudsburg 1984 California (PA) 21–14 Bloomsburg 1985 Bloomsburg 31–9 IUP 1986 IUP 20–6 West Chester 1987 IUP 21–9 West Chester 2008 California (PA) 47–36 West Chester 2009 Shippensburg 42–35 California (PA) 2010 Mercyhurst 56–37 Bloomsburg 2011 Kutztown 21–14 Slippery Rock 2012 IUP 41–10 Shippensburg 2013 Bloomsburg 42–38 Slippery Rock 2014 Slippery Rock 28–26 Bloomsburg 2015 Slippery Rock 61–12 West Chester 2016 California (PA) 49–7 Kutztown 2017 IUP 24–7 West Chester 2018 West Chester 33–10 Slippery Rock 2019 Slippery Rock 37–35 Kutztown 2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 Kutztown 38–32 Slippery Rock 2022 IUP 24–21 Shepherd 2023 Kutztown 31–7 Slippery Rock 2024 Kutztown 21–14 California (PA) 2025 Kutztown 28–23 IUP
Championships by team Schools that no longer play PSAC football are in italics. # School Championships T–1 Bloomsburg 16 T–1 West Chester 16 3 Slippery Rock 13 4 East Stroudsburg 12 5 California 9 6 Millersville 8 T–7 Shippensburg 7 T–7 IUP 7 T–9 Clarion 6 T–9 Edinboro 6 11 Kutztown 5 12 Lock Haven 4 13 Mansfield 2 14 Mercyhurst 1
Notes Mansfield no longer plays full-sized football, opting instead to sponsor sprint football, a variant that uses standard NCAA football rules but restricts player weights to a maximum of . One other PSAC member, Pitt–Johnstown, does not sponsor football. Among current PSAC members that sponsor football, three have never won the conference title—Gannon, Seton Hill, and Shepherd. All are among the conference's newer members; Gannon joined in 2008, Seton Hill in 2013, and Shepherd in 2019.
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