1994 NCAA Division III football season

{{Infobox college football season

| type = NCAA Division III

| year = 1994

| image =

| image_caption =

| regular_season = August – November 1994

| playoffs = November – December 1994

| championship = Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

| champion = Albion

| gagliardi = Carey Bender, Coe (RB)

}}

The 1994 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 1994, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1994 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Albion Britons won their first Division III championship by defeating the Washington & Jefferson Presidents, 38−15. The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Carey Bender, running back from Coe.{{cite web|title=All-Time Division III Football Championship Records |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_champs_records/2013/d3/champ.pdf|work=NCAA|publisher=NCAA.org|access-date=November 26, 2014|pages=4–15}}

Conference standings

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|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Association of Mideast Colleges football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Centennial Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Freedom Football Conference standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Illini–Badger Football Conference standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Iowa Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Midwest Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 New England Football Conference standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 New England Small College Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 New Jersey Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 North Coast Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Old Dominion Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 Wisconsin State University Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{1994 NCAA Division III independents football records}}

Conference champions

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Conference champions
Association of Mideast Colleges – Bluffton and Thomas More Centennial Conference – Dickinson College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) and Illinois Wesleyan Freedom Football Conference – Merchant Marine and Plymouth State Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference – Hanover and Wabash Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion* Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener Midwest Conference – Coe Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Maine Maritime and Massachusetts–Dartmouth New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Kean and Trenton State North Coast Athletic Conference – Allegheny Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin Wallace, John Carroll, and Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Emory & Henry Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – La Verne Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX) Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association– Hardin–Simmons, Howard Payne, and Midwestern State University Athletic Association – Carnegie Mellon and Washington–Saint Louis Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater

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Conference champions

*Association of Mideast Colleges – Bluffton and Thomas More

Centennial Conference – Dickinson
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) and Illinois Wesleyan
Freedom Football Conference – Merchant Marine and Plymouth State
Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference – Hanover and Wabash
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion
Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener
Midwest Conference – Coe
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN)
New England Football Conference – Maine Maritime and Massachusetts–Dartmouth
New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Kean and Trenton State
North Coast Athletic Conference – Allegheny
Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin Wallace, John Carroll, and Mount Union
Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Emory & Henry
Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – La Verne
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX)
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association– Hardin–Simmons, Howard Payne, and Midwestern State
University Athletic Association – Carnegie Mellon and Washington–Saint Louis
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater

Postseason

The 1994 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 22nd 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 second time. As of 2014, Salem has remained the yearly host of the Stagg Bowl. Like the previous nine tournaments, this year's bracket featured sixteen teams.{{cite web|title=1994 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_champs_records/2013/d3/champ.pdf|work=NCAA|publisher=NCAA.org|access-date=November 26, 2014|pages=14}}

=Playoff bracket=

{{16TeamBracket | RD1=Regionals
Campus Sites

| RD2=Quarterfinals
Campus Sites

| RD3=Semifinals
Campus Sites

| RD4=National Championship Game
Salem Football Stadium
Salem, Virginia

| team-width=

| RD1-seed01=

| RD1-team01= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Mount Union Purple Raiders|title=Mount Union}}

| RD1-score01= 28

| RD1-seed02=

| RD1-team02= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Allegheny Gators|title=Allegheny}}

| RD1-score02= 19

| RD1-seed03=

| RD1-team03= Albion

| RD1-score03= 28

| RD1-seed04=

| RD1-team04= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Augustana (Illinois) Vikings|title=Augustana (IL)}}

| RD1-score04= 21

| RD1-seed05=

| RD1-team05={{cfb link|year=1994|team=Wartburg Knights|title=Wartburg}}

| RD1-score05= 22

| RD1-seed06=

| RD1-team06= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Central Dutch|title=Central (IA)}}

| RD1-score06= 21

| RD1-seed07=

| RD1-team07= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Saint John's Johnnies|title=Saint John's (MN)}}

| RD1-score07= 51

| RD1-seed08=

| RD1-team08= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=La Verne Leopards|title=La Verne}}

| RD1-score08= 12

| RD1-seed09=

| RD1-team09= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Widener Pride|title=Widener}}

| RD1-score09= 14

| RD1-seed10=

| RD1-team10= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Dickinson Red Devils|title=Dickinson}}

| RD1-score10= 0

| RD1-seed11=

| RD1-team11= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Washington & Jefferson Presidents|title=Washington & Jefferson}}

| RD1-score11= 28

| RD1-seed12=

| RD1-team12= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Trinity Tigers|title=Trinity (TX)}}

| RD1-score12= 0

| RD1-seed13=

| RD1-team13= Plymouth State

| RD1-score13= 19

| RD1-seed14=

| RD1-team14= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Merchant Marine Mariners|title=Merchant Marine}}

| RD1-score14= 18

| RD1-seed15=

| RD1-team15= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Ithaca Bombers|title=Ithaca}}

| RD1-score15= 10**

| RD1-seed16=

| RD1-team16= {{cfb link|year=1994|team=Buffalo State Bengals|title=Buffalo State}}

| RD1-score16= 7

| RD2-seed01=

| RD2-team01= Mount Union

| RD2-score01= 33

| RD2-seed02=

| RD2-team02= Albion

| RD2-score02= 34

| RD2-seed03=

| RD2-team03= Wartburg

| RD2-score03= 14

| RD2-seed04=

| RD2-team04= Saint John's (MN)

| RD2-score04= 24

| RD2-seed05=

| RD2-team05= Washington & Jefferson

| RD2-score05= 37

| RD2-seed06=

| RD2-team06= Widener

| RD2-score06= 21

| RD2-seed07=

| RD2-team07= Plymouth State

| RD2-score07= 7

| RD2-seed08=

| RD2-team08= Ithaca

| RD2-score08= 22

| RD3-seed01=

| RD3-team01= Albion

| RD3-score01= 19

| RD3-seed02=

| RD3-team02= Saint John's (MN)

| RD3-score02= 16

| RD3-seed03=

| RD3-team03= Washington & Jefferson

| RD3-score03= 23

| RD3-seed04=

| RD3-team04= Ithaca

| RD3-score04= 19

| RD4-seed01=

| RD4-team01= Albion

| RD4-score01= 38

| RD4-seed02=

| RD4-team02= Washington & Jefferson

| RD4-score02= 15

}}

1994 NCAA Division III football season

Conference standings

Conference champions

Postseason

=Playoff bracket=

See also

References