2000 NAIA football season
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NAIA football season
| year = 2000
| image =
| image_caption =
| regular_season =
| postseason =
| championship = Jim Carroll Stadium
Savannah, TN
December 16, 2000
| champions = Georgetown (KY)
| naia_poty = Eddie Eviston (quarterback, Georgetown (KY))
}}
The 2000 NAIA football season was the component of the 2000 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. The season's playoffs, known as the NAIA Football National Championship, culminated with the championship game on December 16, at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tennessee. The Georgetown Tigers defeated the {{cfb link|year=2000|team=Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers|title=Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers}}, 20–0, in the title game to win the program's second NAIA championship.{{cite news|title=Georgetown 'Finishes' NWOS For NAIA Title|newspaper=The Jackson Sun|date=December 17, 2000|pages=1D, 6D|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88131584/georgetown-finishes-nwos-for-naia/|via=Newspapers.com}}
Conference and membership changes
=Conference changes=
- This was the first season for the Dakota Athletic Conference.{{cite web|title=NAIA Football Regular Season Records|url=https://www.naia.org/sports/fball/Records/FB_RegularSeason.pdf|work=NAIA|accessdate=11 December 2021|pages=20}} The DAC was formed by former members of the newly-disbanded North Dakota College Athletic and South Dakota-Iowa Intercollegiate conferences from North Dakota and South Dakota.
- This was also the first season for the Great Plains Athletic Conference, which rebranded from the Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference after adding four former members of the South Dakota-Iowa Intercollegiate Conference from South Dakota and Iowa.
=Membership changes=
| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
| Team | 1999 conference | 2000 conference |
|---|---|---|
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Great Plains |
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;"
| Dordt | South Dakota-Iowa | Great Plains |
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;"
| Mary | North Dakota | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Great Plains |
| style="text-align:center;"
| Si Tanka | South Dakota-Iowa | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Great Plains |
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota-Iowa | Dakota |
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | Dakota |
Conference standings
| cellpadding="5"
|valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Central States Football League standings}} |valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Dakota Athletic Conference football standings}} |valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Frontier Conference football standings}} |
| valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Great Plains Athletic Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Heart of America Athletic Conference football standings}} |valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}} |
| valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Mid-South Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 Mid-States Football Association standings}} |valign="top" width=25em|{{2000 NAIA independents football records}} |
Postseason
{{Main|2000 NAIA Football National Championship}}
Rankings
{{Main|2000 NAIA football rankings}}