2014_Stagg_Bowl

2014 NCAA Division III football season

2014 NCAA Division III football season

American college football season


The 2014 NCAA Division III football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, was the most recent season of NCAA Division III football. The season began on September 4 and concluded on December 19 with title game of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. Wisconsin–Whitewater won their sixth Division III title with a 43–34 win over Mount Union at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. This was the ninth time in ten seasons that Mount Union and Wisconsin–Whitewater met in the title game.[1]

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Headlines

  • October 18
    • Lance Leipold, head coach at Wisconsin–Whitewater, sets an all-divisions NCAA record for the fewest games required to reach 100 career wins, doing so in his 106th career game, a 52–3 blowout of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. The previous record was set by Hall of Fame coach Gil Dobie, who reached the 100-win mark in his 108th game at Cornell in 1921.[2]

Postseason

Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, three conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the second year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013, was in the second year of the two-year grace period.

Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 24 Pool A conferences contained 207 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-four schools were in Pool B, enough for two bids.

The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.

Playoff bracket

First Round
November 22
Campus Sites
Second Round
November 29
Campus Sites
Quarterfinals
December 6
Campus Sites
Semifinals
December 13
Campus Sites
National Championship Game
December 19
Wisconsin–Whitewater* 55
Macalester 2 Wisconsin–Whitewater* 38
Wabash* 33 Wabash 14
Franklin 14 Wisconsin–Whitewater* 37
Saint John's (MN)* 35 Wartburg 33
St. Scholastica 7 St. John's (MN) 10
Wartburg* 37 Wartburg* 21
St. Thomas (MN) 31 Wisconsin–Whitewater* 20
Widener* 36 Linfield 14
Muhlenberg 35 Widener* 37
Delaware Valley* 26 Christopher Newport 27
Christopher Newport 29 Widener* 7
Linfield* 55 Linfield 45
Chapman 24 Linfield 31
Mary Hardin–Baylor* 27 Mary Hardin–Baylor* 28
Texas Lutheran 20 Wisconsin-Whitewater 43
Wesley* 52 Mount Union 34
Hampden–Sydney 7 Wesley* 59
Husson* 20 MIT 0
MIT 27* Wesley* 41
Johns Hopkins* 24 Hobart 13
Rowan 16 Johns Hopkins 21
Hobart* 22 Hobart* 24
Ithaca 15 Wesley 21
Wheaton (IL)* 43 Mount Union* 70
Benedictine (IL) 14 Wheaton (IL)* 12
John Carroll* 63 John Carroll 14
Centre 28 John Carroll 28
Wittenberg* 25 Mount Union* 36
Washington & Jefferson 41 Washington & Jefferson 0
Mount Union* 63 Mount Union* 67
Adrian 3

* Home team     Overtime    Winner

See also


References

  1. "Lance Leipold fastest to 100 wins". ESPN.com. October 18, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2014.

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