1984 NCAA Division III football season

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.[1]

1984 NCAA Division III football season
Regular seasonAugust – November 1984
PlayoffsNovember – December 1984
Galbreath Field
Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
ChampionAugustana (IL) (2)
NCAA Division III football seasons

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

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.

Conference standings
1984 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Central (IA) $^ 7 –0 –0  11 –1 –0
Wartburg 5 –2 –0  7 –2 –0
Buena Vista 5 –2 –0  7 –3 –0
Luther 4 –3 –0  5 –3 –0
William Penn 3 –4 –0  5 –5 –0
Dubuque 2 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
Simpson 1 –6 –0  2 –7 –0
Upper Iowa 1 –6 –0  1 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant
1984 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Widener $ 7 –1 –0  8 –2 –0
Lycoming 6 –2 –0  8 –2 –0
Moravian 6 –2 –0  7 –2 –0
Susquehanna 5 –3 –0  6 –3 –0
Delaware Valley 4 –4 –0  5 –5 –0
Upsala 3 –5 –0  4 –6 –0
Albright 2 –6 –0  3 –6 –0
Juniata 2 –5 –1  3 –6 –1
Wilkes 0 –7 –1  1 –7 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1984 New Jersey State Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Montclair State $ 6 –0 –0  7 –3 –0
Glassboro State 4 –2 –0  4 –5 –0
Kean 3 –2 –1  4 –4 –1
Ramapo 2 –3 –1  5 –3 –1
Jersey City State 2 –4 –0  5 –4 –0
Trenton State 2 –4 –0  3 –7 –0
William Paterson 1 –5 –0  2 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1984 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Washington & Jefferson $^ 6 –0 –0  9 –2 –0
Carnegie Mellon 5 –1 –0  6 –3 –0
Bethany (WV) 3 –3 –0  3 –6 –0
John Carroll 2 –4 –0  4 –5 –0
Grove City 2 –4 –0  3 –6 –0
Hiram 2 –4 –0  3 –6 –0
Thiel 1 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

Conference champions
Conference champions
  • Centennial 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.[2]

Playoff bracket
Quarterfinals
Campus Sites 		Semifinals
Campus Sites 		National Championship Game
Galbreath Field
Kings Island, Mason, OH
         
Union (NY) 26
Plymouth State 14
Union (NY) 6
Augustana (IL) 23
Augustana (IL) 14
Dayton 13
Augustana (IL) 21
Central (IA) 12
Washington & Jefferson 22
Randolph–Macon 21
Washington & Jefferson 0
Central (IA) 20
Central (IA) 23
Occidental 22

See also

References
  1. "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  2. "1984 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
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