American college football season
The 2016 NCAA Division III football season , part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began on September 5, 2016 and ended with the NCAA Division III Football Championship , also known as the Stagg Bowl , on December 16, 2016 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia . However, UMHB's championship was later vacated by the NCAA.[ 1]
Conference changes and new programs [ edit ] Three programs changed conference affiliations.
A full list of Division III teams can be viewed on the D3football website.[ 5]
This was also the final season of competition for two Division III conferences. The New England Football Conference will be absorbed by the Commonwealth Coast Conference ,[ 6] and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference , which had lost most of its membership in 2012 when seven schools left to form the Southern Athletic Association , will end its sponsorship of football and continue as a non-football conference.
Conference standings [ edit ] Twenty-five conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, two conferences had no Pool A bid. The American Southwest, which had fallen below the required seven members in 2013 and lost its Pool A bid after the two-year grace period, was in the first year of the two-year waiting period, having now attained seven members; the SCAC had only four members.
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 25 Pool A conferences contained 222 schools, an average of 8.9 teams per conference. Twelve schools were in Pool B, enough for one bid.
The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.
First round November 19, 2016 Second round November 26, 2016 Quarterfinals December 3, 2016 Semifinals December 10, 2016 Championship December 16, 2016Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia Mary Hardin-Baylor* 50 Redlands 28 Mary Hardin-Baylor* 27 Hardin-Simmons* 10 Linfield 10 Linfield 24 Mary Hardin-Baylor* 38 Wheaton* 45 Wheaton 16 Huntingdon 10 Wheaton 31 North Central* 41 North Central* 14 Rose-Hulman 7 Mary Hardin-Baylor* 14 Alfred* † 33 Mount Union 12 Bridgewater State 27 Alfred* 30 Western New England * 44 Western New England 24 Husson 27 Alfred* 45 Hobart* 21 Mount Union 70 Mount Union 38 Mount Union 28 Johns Hopkins* 42 Johns Hopkins* 21 Randolph-Macon 21 Mary Hardin-Baylor 10 St. Thomas* 43 UW-Oshkosh 7 Northwestern (MN) 0 St. Thomas* 55 Coe* 21 Coe 6 Monmouth 14 St. Thomas* 31 St. John's* 32 UW-Oshkosh 34 UW-Platteville 31 St. John's 14 UW-Oshkosh* 49 UW-Oshkosh* 31 Washington U. 13 UW-Oshkosh* 10 John Carroll* 37 John Carroll 3 Olivet 12 John Carroll* †† 20 Wesley * 38 Wesley 17 Stevenson 17 John Carroll 31 Thomas More* 30 UW-Whitewater* 14 Wittenberg † 33 Wittenberg 9 UW-Whitewater* 45 UW-Whitewater* 37 Lakeland 27
* Home team † Overtime Winner
Winning teams are denoted in bold .
Date Bowl Stadium City Home team Away team Score Nov. 18, 2016 ECAC Chapman Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kean SUNY-Cortland 30–27 Nov. 18, 2016 ECAC President's Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Washington & Jefferson Brockport 38–31 Nov. 19, 2016 ECAC Lynah Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Utica Westminster (PA) 33–6 Nov. 19, 2016 ECAC Bushnell Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania No. 24 Frostburg State No. 22 St. John Fisher 38–14 Nov. 19, 2016 New England Bowl Gaudet FieldMiddletown, Rhode Island Salve Regina Framingham State 37–34 Nov. 19, 2016 Centennial -MAC Bowl Series Scotty Wood StadiumAllentown, Pennsylvania Muhlenberg Delaware Valley 30–27 Nov. 19, 2016 Centennial-MAC Bowl Series Shirk StadiumReading, Pennsylvania Albright Franklin & Marshall 28–23 Nov. 20, 2016 ECAC Legacy Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon Salisbury 52–20 Nov. 20, 2016 ECAC Whitelaw Bowl Franklin Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SUNY-Maritime RPI 38–6
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