1977 NCAA Division III football season

1977 NCAA Division III football season
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Regular season	August – November 1977
College football seasons « 1976 1978 »

The 1977 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 1977, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship in December 1977 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Widener Pioneers won their first Division III championship, defeating the Wabash Little Giants by a final score of 39−36.

Conference champions

See also: List of NCAA Division III football seasons

Conference champions

College Athletic Conference – Southwestern at Memphis College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Illinois Wesleyan and Millikin Independent College Athletic Conference – Champion Unknown Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Albright (North), Widener (South) Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Ripon Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Massachusetts Maritime New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Glassboro State Northwest Conference – Linfield Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Hampden–Sydney Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Clarion Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division III) – Clark Atlanta and Miles Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Redlands Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Tarleton State Twin Rivers Conference – Concordia–St. Paul Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Stevens Point

Postseason

The 1977 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the fifth 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 fifth consecutive year. Like the previous two championships, eight teams competed in this edition.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals Campus Sites					Semifinals Campus Sites					National Championship Game Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, AL
		Minnesota–Morris	13
		Albion	10
							Minnesota–Morris	21
							Wabash	37
		Wabash	20
		Saint John's (MN)	9
												Wabash	36
												Widener	39
		Widener	19
		Central (IA)	0
							Widener	33
							Albany	15
		Albany	51
		Hampden–Sydney	41

See also

• 1977 NAIA Division I football season
• 1977 NAIA Division II football season