1979 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships

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|Name=1979 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships

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|Host city={{flagicon|Illinois}} Champaign, Illinois

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Team Champion: UTEP (3rd title)

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|Dates=May 29−June 2, 1979

|Stadium=Memorial Stadium
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

|Previous=1978

|Next=1980

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The 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested May 29−June 2 at the 57th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate Division I outdoor track and field events in the United States.

This year's meet was contested at Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, which hosted for the second time overall and for the first time since 1977.{{cite web|title=NCAA Division I Men's Track and Field Championship Results |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2012-13/2012_d1_motf.pdf |work=NCAA|publisher=NCAA.org|access-date=June 29, 2016}}{{cite web |title=1979 NCAA Track and Field Championship Results |url=http://www.ustfccca.org/infozone/public-meet-single.php?contno=367 |work=USTFCCCA InfoZone: Single-Meet Report |publisher=USTFCCCA |access-date=June 29, 2016 |archive-date=September 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913172222/http://www.ustfccca.org/infozone/public-meet-single.php?contno=367 |url-status=dead }}

After winning a co-championship in 1978, UTEP easily finished atop this year's team standings and claimed their third national title.