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2014 NCAA Division III football season#Postseason

{{Short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college football season

| type = NCAA Division III

| year = 2014

| image =

| image_caption =

| regular_season = September 5 – November 15, 2014

| playoffs = November 22 – December 19, 2014

| nc_date = December 19, 2014

| championship = Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

| champion = Wisconsin–Whitewater (6)

| gagliardi = Kevin Burke, Mount Union (QB)

}}

The 2014 NCAA Division III football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, was the most recent season of NCAA Division III football. The season began on September 4 and concluded on December 19 with title game of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. Wisconsin–Whitewater won their sixth Division III title with a 43–34 win over Mount Union at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. This was the ninth time in ten seasons that Mount Union and Wisconsin–Whitewater met in the title game.[http://www.d3football.com/scoreboard/composite 2014 Division III football schedule - D3football]

Conference changes and new programs

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School2013 conference2014 conference
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| Mississippi College

American Southwest (Division III)Gulf South (Division II)
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| George Fox

Program establishedNorthwest Conference

Conference standings

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|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 American Southwest Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Centennial Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Empire 8 Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Liberty League football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Midwest Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 New England Football Conference standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 New England Small College Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 New Jersey Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 North Coast Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Northwest Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Old Dominion Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Southern Athletic Association football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 USA South Athletic Conference football standings}}

valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}

|valign="top" width=25em|{{2014 NCAA Division III independents football records}}

Conference summaries

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Conference champions
*American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin–Baylor (9–0, 4–0)

  • Centennial Conference – Johns Hopkins (9–0, 8–0)
  • College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Wheaton (IL) (9–0, 6–0)
  • Eastern Collegiate Football Conference – Husson (8–2, 7–0)
  • Empire 8 Conference – Ithaca (7–2, 6–2)
  • Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Franklin (7–0, 7–2)
  • Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wartburg (9–0, 6–0)
  • Liberty League – Hobart (9–0, 6–0)
  • Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference – Framingham State (10–1, 8–0)
  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Adrian (8–3, 5–1)
  • Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener (12–0, 9–0)
  • Midwest Conference – Macalester (9–2, 5–0)
  • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) (10–2, 7–1)
  • New England Football Conference – MIT (8–3, 7–0)
  • New England Small College Athletic Conference – Amherst (8–0, 8–0)
  • New Jersey Athletic Conference – Morrisville State (9–2, 6–1), Montclair State (8–2, 6–1), and Rowan (7–4, 6–1)
  • North Coast Athletic Conference – Wittenberg (8–1, 8–0)
  • Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference – Wisconsin Lutheran (7–3, 5–1)
  • Northwest Conference – Linfield (10–1, 6–1)
  • Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union (12–0, 9–0)
  • Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Hampden–Sydney (7–4, 5–2)
  • Presidents' Athletic Conference – Thomas More (8–2, 7–1) and Washington & Jefferson (9–1, 7–1)
  • Southern Athletic Association – Centre (10–1, 6–0)
  • Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Chapman (7–1, 6–0)
  • Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Texas Lutheran (8–1, 2–0)
  • University Athletic Association – Chicago (8–1, 3–0)
  • Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – St. Scholastica (10–0, 9–0)
  • United States South Athletic Conference – Christopher Newport (8–2, 6–1)
  • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater (9–0, 6–0)

Headlines

  • October 18
  • Lance Leipold, head coach at Wisconsin–Whitewater, sets an all-divisions NCAA record for the fewest games required to reach 100 career wins, doing so in his 106th career game, a 52–3 blowout of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. The previous record was set by Hall of Fame coach Gil Dobie, who reached the 100-win mark in his 108th game at Cornell in 1921.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/11723353/lance-leipold-wisconsin-whitewater-warhawks-becomes-fastest-coach-100-wins-ncaa-history |title=Lance Leipold fastest to 100 wins |publisher=ESPN.com |date=October 18, 2014 |access-date=October 19, 2014}}

Postseason

{{See also|NCAA Division III Football Championship}}

Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, three conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the second year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013, was in the second year of the two-year grace period.

Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 24 Pool A conferences contained 207 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-four schools were in Pool B, enough for two bids.

The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.

=Playoff bracket=

{{32TeamBracket|compact=yes|seeds=no

| team-width=14em

| RD1=First Round
November 22
Campus Sites

| RD2=Second Round
November 29
Campus Sites

| RD3=Quarterfinals
December 6
Campus Sites

| RD4=Semifinals
December 13
Campus Sites

| RD5=National Championship Game
December 19

| RD1-team01= Wisconsin–Whitewater*

| RD1-score01= 55

| RD1-team02= Macalester

| RD1-score02= 2

| RD1-team03= Wabash*

| RD1-score03= 33

| RD1-team04= Franklin

| RD1-score04=14

| RD1-team05= Saint John's (MN)*

| RD1-score05= 35

| RD1-team06= St. Scholastica

| RD1-score06=7

| RD1-team07= Wartburg*

| RD1-score07= 37

| RD1-team08= St. Thomas (MN)

| RD1-score08= 31

| RD1-team09= Widener*

| RD1-score09= 36

| RD1-team10= Muhlenberg

| RD1-score10= 35

| RD1-team11= Delaware Valley*

| RD1-score11= 26

| RD1-team12= Christopher Newport

| RD1-score12= 29

| RD1-team13= Linfield*

| RD1-score13= 55

| RD1-team14= Chapman

| RD1-score14= 24

| RD1-team15= Mary Hardin–Baylor*

| RD1-score15= 27

| RD1-team16= Texas Lutheran

| RD1-score16= 20

| RD1-team17= Wesley*

| RD1-score17= 52

| RD1-team18= Hampden–Sydney

| RD1-score18= 7

| RD1-team19= Husson*

| RD1-score19= 20

| RD1-team20= MIT

| RD1-score20= 27*

| RD1-team21= Johns Hopkins*

| RD1-score21= 24

| RD1-team22= Rowan

| RD1-score22= 16

| RD1-team23= Hobart*

| RD1-score23= 22

| RD1-team24= Ithaca

| RD1-score24=15

| RD1-team25= Wheaton (IL)*

| RD1-score25= 43

| RD1-team26= Benedictine (IL)

| RD1-score26=14

| RD1-team27= John Carroll*

| RD1-score27= 63

| RD1-team28= Centre

| RD1-score28= 28

| RD1-team29= Wittenberg*

| RD1-score29= 25

| RD1-team30= Washington & Jefferson

| RD1-score30= 41

| RD1-team31= Mount Union*

| RD1-score31= 63

| RD1-team32= Adrian

| RD1-score32=3

| RD2-team01= Wisconsin–Whitewater*

| RD2-score01= 38

| RD2-team02= Wabash

| RD2-score02= 14

| RD2-team03= St. John's (MN)

| RD2-score03= 10

| RD2-team04= Wartburg*

| RD2-score04=21

| RD2-team05= Widener*

| RD2-score05= 37

| RD2-team06= Christopher Newport

| RD2-score06= 27

| RD2-team07= Linfield

| RD2-score07= 31

| RD2-team08= Mary Hardin–Baylor*

| RD2-score08=28

| RD2-team09= Wesley*

| RD2-score09= 59

| RD2-team10= MIT

| RD2-score10= 0

| RD2-team11= Johns Hopkins

| RD2-score11= 21

| RD2-team12= Hobart*

| RD2-score12=24

| RD2-team13= Wheaton (IL)*

| RD2-score13= 12

| RD2-team14= John Carroll

| RD2-score14= 14

| RD2-team15= Washington & Jefferson

| RD2-score15= 0

| RD2-team16= Mount Union*

| RD2-score16=67

| RD3-team01= Wisconsin–Whitewater*

| RD3-score01= 37

| RD3-team02= Wartburg

| RD3-score02=33

| RD3-team03=Widener*

| RD3-score03= 7

| RD3-team04= Linfield

| RD3-score04=45

| RD3-team05= Wesley*

| RD3-score05= 41

| RD3-team06= Hobart

| RD3-score06=13

| RD3-team07= John Carroll

| RD3-score07=28

| RD3-team08= Mount Union*

| RD3-score08=36

| RD4-team01= Wisconsin–Whitewater*

| RD4-score01= 20

| RD4-team02=Linfield

| RD4-score02= 14

| RD4-team03= Wesley

| RD4-score03= 21

| RD4-team04= Mount Union*

| RD4-score04= 70

| RD5-team01= Wisconsin-Whitewater

| RD5-score01= 43

| RD5-team02= Mount Union

| RD5-score02= 34

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* Home team    † Overtime    Winner

See also

References

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