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The 1985 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 1985, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1985 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won the third of their four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Ithaca Bombers by a final score of 20−7.[1]

Conference changes and new programs[]

School 1984 Conference 1985 Conference
Fordham D-III Independent Liberty

Conference champions[]

Conference champions
  • Centennial Conference – Gettysburg
  • College Athletic Conference – Centre and Rhodes
  • College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL)
  • Independent College Athletic Conference – Ithaca
  • Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA)
  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion
  • Middle Atlantic Conference – Lycoming
  • Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Coe
  • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN)
  • New England Football Conference – Plymouth State and Western Connecticut State
  • New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State
  • North Coast Athletic Conference – Denison
  • Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union
  • Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Emory & Henry, Randolph-Macon, and Washington & Lee
  • Presidents' Athletic Conference – Carnegie Mellon
  • Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental
  • Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin and Sul Ross State
  • Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario
  • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–River Falls

Postseason[]

The 1985 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 13th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the eleventh year and first time since 1982. This was the first tournament to feature sixteen teams after expanding from the eight team model in place since 1973.[2]

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket[]

  First Round
Campus Sites
Quarterfinals
Campus Sites
Semifinals
Campus Sites
National Championship Game
Garrett-Harrison Stadium
Phenix City, Alabama
                                     
 Ithaca 13  
 Union (NY) 12  
   Ithaca 50  
 
   Montclair State 28  
 Montclair State 28
 Western Connecticut State 0  
   Ithaca 34  
   Gettysburg 0  
 Salisbury State 35  
 Carnegie Mellon 22  
   Salisbury State 6
 
   Gettysburg 22  
 Gettysburg 14
 Lycoming 10  
   Ithaca 7
   Augustana (IL) 20
 Augustana (IL) 26  
 Albion 10  
   Augustana (IL) 21
 
   Mount Union 14  
 Mount Union 35
 Denison 3  
   Augustana (IL) 14
   Central (IA) 7  
 Central (IA) 27  
 Coe 7  
   Central (IA) 71
 
   Occidental 0  
 Occidental 28
 Saint John's (MN) 10  

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References[]

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