1976 NCAA Division III football season Regular season August – November 1976
The 1976 NCAA Division III football season , part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1976, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship in December 1976 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama . The Saint John's Johnnies won their first Division III championship, defeating the Towson State Tigers by a final score of 31−28.[1]
Conference and program changes [ ] The Virginia College Conference Old Dominion Athletic Conference ) began football play in 1976. Conference champions [ ]
Conference champions
College Athletic Conference – Sewanee
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Carroll (WI)
Independent College Athletic Conference – Alfred
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wiliam Penn
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion
Middle Atlantic Conference – Albright (North), Franklin & Marshall (South)
Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Cornell College , Knox , and Monmouth
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN)
New England Football Conference – Nichols
New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Glassboro State
Northwest Conference – Linfield
Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – East Stroudsburg
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division III) – Fort Valley State
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Redlands
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Trinity (TX) Twin Rivers Conference – Concordia–St. Paul , Loras , Maranatha Baptist , Northwestern–St. Paul , and Northwestern (WI) Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Oshkosh , Wisconsin–Platteville , and Wisconsin–River Falls
Postseason [ ] The 1976 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the fourth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the fourth consecutive year. Like the previous championship, eight teams competed in this edition.[2]
Bracket [ ]
Quarterfinals Campus Sites
Semifinals Campus Sites
National Championship Game Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, AL
Saint John's (MN)
46
Augustana (IL)
7
St. John's (MN)
61
Buena Vista
0
Buena Vista OT )
20
Carroll (WI)
14
St. John's (MN)
31
Towson State
28
St. Lawrence
26
Albright
7
St. Lawrence
36
Towson State
38
Towson State
14
C.W. Post
10
See also [ ] 1976 NAIA Division I football season 1976 NAIA Division II football season References [ ] 
