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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.
The 2024 NAIA football season was the component of the 2024 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. The regular season began on August 24 and ended on November 16. [1] The playoffs, known as the NAIA Football National Championship, began on November 23
The NAIA Council of Presidents voted on and approved expanding the NAIA football playoffs from 16 to 20 teams effective for this season. Under the new format, there will be 13 automatic qualifiers, with 7 more at-large teams picked from the Top 25 teams in the final NAIA Coaches Poll, and the top 12 seeds will receive a bye in the first round.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – The NAIA announced the field for the football post season with Morningside and Northwestern both qualifying. Morningside already knew they were in by winning the GPAC ...
Baker wins, Ottawa falls as NAIA playoffs begin. Baker and Ottawa were among the 20-team field (12 auto-qualifiers, seven at-large berths) for this year’s NAIA postseason tournament, which ...
Keiser University needed some fourth-quarter heroics Saturday to beat College of Idaho in the NAIA football semifinal game in West Palm Beach. ... on Dec. 18 in Durham, N.C. The Raiders beat the ...
In the NAIA playoffs, they defeated Friends, Northwestern (IA) in the quarterfinals, and Keiser in the NAIA championship game. Key players included quarterback Jackson Waring (2,514 passing yards), Dalten Van Pelt (816 rushing yards), receiver Aisea Toki (731 receiving yards), and linebacker John Argo (72 tackles).
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.