2006 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 2006

Playoffs

November – December 2006

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champions

Mount Union (9)

Gagliardi Trophy

Josh Brehm (QB), Alma

Division III football seasons
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The 2006 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 2006, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2006 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Mount Union Purple Raiders won their ninth Division III championship by defeating the Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks, 35−16. This was the second of seven straight championship games between Mount Union (3 wins) and Wisconsin–Whitewater (4 wins) and the second straight win for Mount Union.

The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Josh Brehm, quarterback from Alma.^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin–Baylor Atlantic Central Football Conference – Wesley Centennial Conference – Dickinson College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL), North Central (IL), and Wheaton (IL) Empire 8 Conference – St. John Fisher and Springfield Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Mount St. Joseph Illini-Badger Football Conference – Concordia (WI) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Liberty League – Hobart and Union (NY) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hope Middle Atlantic Conference – Wilkes Midwest Conference – St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Bethel (MN) and Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Coast Guard (Bogan Division), Curry (Boyd Division) Championship Game: Curry 34, Coast Guard 28 New England Small College Athletic Conference – Williams New Jersey Athletic Conference – Rowan and SUNY Cortland North Coast Athletic Conference – Wabash and Wittenberg Northwest Conference – Whitworth Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Washington & Lee Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Millsaps University Athletic Association – Carnegie Mellon Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Minnesota–Morris USA South Athletic Conference – Averett and Christopher Newport Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater

Postseason

The 2006 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 34th 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 14th time.^[2]

Playoff bracket

First Round Campus Sites		Second Round Campus Sites		Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia

Mount Union	49
Hope	0	Mount Union	35
Wheaton (IL)	42	Wheaton (IL)	3
Mount St. Joseph	28			Mount Union	17
North Central (IL)	35			Capital	14
Concordia Wisconsin	6	North Central (IL)	13
Capital	32	Capital	41
Wittenberg	14					Mount Union	26
Wilkes	42					St. John Fisher	14
Washington & Lee	0	Wilkes	14
Rowan	20	Rowan	21
Hobart	18			Rowan	0
St. John Fisher	49			St. John Fisher	31
Union (NY)	21	St. John Fisher	27
Springfield	42	Springfield	21
Curry	14							Mount Union	35
Wesley	49							Wisconsin–Whitewater	16
Dickinson	21	Wesley	37
Carnegie Mellon	21	Carnegie Mellon	0
Millsaps	0			Wesley	34
Washington & Jefferson	27			Mary Hardin–Baylor	28
Christopher Newport	23	Washington & Jefferson	27
Mary Hardin–Baylor	33	Mary Hardin–Baylor	30
Hardin–Simmons	21					Wesley	7
Wisconsin–Whitewater	59					Wisconsin–Whitewater	44
St. Norbert	17	Wisconsin–Whitewater	24
Wisconsin–La Crosse	28	Wisconsin–La Crosse	21
Bethel (MN)	21			Wisconsin–Whitewater	17
Whitworth	27			Saint John's (MN)	14
Occidental	23	Whitworth	3
Saint John's (MN)	21	Saint John's (MN)	21
Central (IA)	13

* Overtime

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
↑ "2006 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 15. Retrieved November 30, 2014.

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2006 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

Playoff bracket

See also

References