The NCAA Division III Football Championship began in 1973. Before 1973, most of the schools now in Division III competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
The Division III playoffs begin with 32 teams selected to participate in the playoffs. The Division III championship game, known as the Stagg Bowl, has been played annually in Salem, Virginia, at Salem Football Stadium, since 1993. It was previously played in Phenix City, Alabama, at Garrett-Harrison Stadium (1973-1982, 1985-1989), at the College Football Hall of Fame, when the Hall was located in Kings Island, Ohio, at Galbreath Field (1983-1984), and Bradenton, Florida, at Hawkins Stadium (1990-1992).
Mount Union appeared in eleven consecutive Stagg Bowls, and all but three since 1996--defeating Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2005, 2006, and 2008; losing to Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014; and defeating University of St. Thomas in 2012 and 2015. The only two times since 2000 in which Mount Union did not appear, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor did; they lost the 2004 championship to Linfield University and won the 2016 game over University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (who made their first Stagg Bowl appearance).
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
West and East Regional Championships (1969-1972)
In 1969, the NCAA started two regional championship games for small college teams: the East Regional's Knute Rockne Bowl and the West's Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. When the NCAA developed a national Division III championship game in 1973, the Stagg Bowl name and the host city of Phenix City, Alabama was chosen.
West Regional championship (Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl)
East Regional championship (Knute Rockne Bowl)
Ncaa Division 3 Football Video
National championship games
Appearances
Most national championships
Stagg Bowl Most Outstanding Player Award
As voted by the media at the game since 2000 [1]
- 2000 Chuck Moore Mt. Union Senior RB
- 2001 Chuck Moore Mt. Union 5th year Senior RB
- 2002 Dan Pugh Mt. Union Senior RB
- 2003 Blake Elliot St. John's Senior WR
- 2004 Riley Jenkins Linfield Senior RB
- 2005 Nate Kmic Mt. Union Freshman RB
- 2006 Greg Micheli Mt. Union Sophomore QB
- 2007 Justin Beaver Wisc-Whitewater Senior RB
- 2008 Greg Micheli Mt. Union Senior QB
- 2009 Levell Coppage Wisc-Whitewater Sophomore RB
- 2010 Levell Coppage Wisc-Whitewater Junior RB
- 2011 Loussaint Minett Wisc-Whitewater Sophomore DE
- 2012 Kevin Burke Mt. Union Sophomore QB
- 2013 Matt Behrendt Wisc-Whitewater Junior QB
- 2014 Matt Behrendt Wisc-Whitewater Senior QB
- 2015 Taurice Scott Mt. Union Senior QB
- 2016 Blake Jackson Mary Hardin-Baylor Senior QB
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