1993 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 1993

Playoffs

November – December 1993

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champions

Mount Union Purple Raiders

Gagliardi Trophy

Jim Ballard, Mount Union Purple Raiders (QB)

Division III football seasons
« 1992	1994 »

The 1993 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 1993, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1993 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Mount Union Purple Raiders won their first Division III championship by defeating the Rowan Profs, 34−24.^[1] The first Gagliardi Trophy was awarded to Mount Union's quarterback Jim Ballard.

Conference and program changes

Following an NCAA rule change passed in January 1991, which required Division I schools to conduct all sports at the Division I level by 1993, multiple Division I universities were forced to move their football programs from the Division III level. As such, teams from Butler University, the University of Dayton, Drake University, the University of Evansville, Valparaiso University, the University of San Diego, Jacksonville University, Creighton University, Bradley University, Davidson College, Georgetown University, Marist College, Canisius College, Duquesne University, Fairfield University, Iona College, St. John's University, St. Peter's University, and Siena College. Many of these teams became football members of non-scholarship Division I FCS football leagues like the Pioneer Football League, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Patriot League, and the Big South Conference. ^[2]

Conference changes

School	1990 Conference	1991 Conference
Buffalo	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
Cal Lutheran	Western (D-II)	SCIAA (D-III)
Canisius	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
Charleston Southern	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
Davidson	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
Dayton	D-III Independent	Pioneer (I-AA)
Drake	D-III Independent	Pioneer (I-AA)
Duquesne	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
Evansville	D-III Independent	Pioneer (I-AA)
Georgetown	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
Iona	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
St. Francis (PA)	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
St. John's (NY)	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
St. Peter's	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
San Diego	D-III Independent	Pioneer (I-AA)
Siena	D-III Independent	MAAC (I-AA)
UAB	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent
Wagner	D-III Independent	I-AA Independent

Conference champions

Conference champions
Association of Mideast Colleges – Thomas More Centennial Conference – Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) Freedom Football Conference – WPI Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference – Anderson Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wartburg Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Wilkes Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Coe Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Maine Maritime New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Rowan North Coast Athletic Conference – Allegheny Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – La Verne Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX) Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hardin–Simmons University Athletic Association – Carnegie Mellon Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–La Crosse

Postseason

The 1993 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 21st 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 Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the third time. As of 2014, Salem has remained the yearly host of the Stagg Bowl. Like the previous eight tournaments, this year's bracket featured sixteen teams.^[3]

Playoff bracket

Regionals Campus Sites		Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia


Mount Union	40

Allegheny	7
		Mount Union	30

		Albion	16
Albion	41

Anderson (IN)	21
				Mount Union	56

				Saint John's (MN)	8
Wisconsin–La Crosse	55

Wartburg	26
		Wisconsin–La Crosse	25

		Saint John's (MN)	25
Saint John's (MN)	32

Coe	14
						Mount Union	34

						Rowan	24
Washington & Jefferson	27

Moravian	7
		Washington & Jefferson	28

		Frostburg State	7
Frostburg State	26

Wilkes	25
				Washington & Jefferson	16

				Rowan	23
Rowan	29

Buffalo State	16
		William Patterson	0

		Rowan	37
William Patterson	17

Union (NY)	7

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
↑ "Drake joins new league". Des Moines, Iowa: The Telegraph-Herald. November 22, 1991. pp. Page 1B. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
↑ "1993 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

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