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The NAIA football national championship is decided by a post-season playoff system featuring the best National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) college football teams in the United States. Under sponsorship of the NAIA, the championship game has been played annually since 1956. [1]
This is a list of NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Division I football seasons from when the NAIA split its football championship into two divisions in 1970 until it consolidated back into a single championship in 1996. [1] The NAIA added flag football as a women's varsity sport in 2021. [2]
A separate NAIA Division II football national championship was also held between 1970 and 1996, with the same number of teams competing in its annual playoffs. [1] Many of the teams who participated in past editions of the playoffs have subsequently joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or disbanded their programs.
The Northwestern Red Raiders, led by 8th-year head coach Matt McCarty, entered the national championship game as the No. 1 seed and defending national champions. They were seeking to win their fourth national championship overall, having won in 1973, 1983, and 2022. They entered the game 14–0, 10–0 in GPAC play.
1959 Texas A&I Javelinas football team; 1960 Lenoir Rhyne Bears football team; 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team; 1962 Central State Bronchos football team; 1963 Saint John's Johnnies football team; 1964 Concordia Cobbers football team; 1964 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team; 1965 Saint John's Johnnies football team
0–9. 1956 NAIA football national championship; 1962 NAIA football season; 1963 NAIA football season; 1964 NAIA football season; 1965 NAIA football season
The season was played from August to November 1993 and culminated in the 1993 NAIA Champion Bowl playoffs and the 1993 NAIA Champion Bowl, played this year on December 11, 1993, at Norris Field in Ada, Oklahoma, on the campus of East Central University.
The NAIA Division II football national championship was a post-season playoff system featuring the best NAIA Division II college football teams in the United States. It was played annually between 1970 and 1996 when NAIA football play was divided into two divisions based on school enrollment size; the NAIA Division I football national championship was played separately.