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(Top) 1 Conference changes and new programs 2 Conference standings 3 Conference summaries 4 Headlines 5 Postseason 5.1 Playoff bracket 6 See also 7 References

2014 NCAA Division III football season

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Regular season

September 5 – November 15, 2014

Playoffs

November 22 – December 19, 2014

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champion

Wisconsin–Whitewater (6)

Gagliardi Trophy

Kevin Burke, Mount Union (QB)

← 2013 ·

NCAA Division III football seasons

· 2015 →

The 2014 NCAA Division III football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, was the most recent season of NCAA Division III football. The season began on September 4 and concluded on December 19 with title game of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. Wisconsin–Whitewater won their sixth Division III title with a 43–34 win over Mount UnionatSalem Football StadiuminSalem, Virginia. This was the ninth time in ten seasons that Mount Union and Wisconsin–Whitewater met in the title game.^[1]

Conference changes and new programs[edit]

School	2013 conference	2014 conference
Mississippi College	American Southwest (Division III)	Gulf South (Division II)
George Fox	Program established	Northwest Conference

Conference standings[edit]

2014 American Southwest Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.6Mary Hardin–Baylor $^	5	–	0	11	–	1
Louisiana College	4	–	1	6	–	4
Hardin–Simmons	3	–	2	6	–	3
East Texas Baptist	1	–	4	4	–	6
Sul Ross	1	–	4	4	–	6
Howard Payne	1	–	4	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Centennial Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.10Johns Hopkins $^	9	–	0	11	–	1
No.23Muhlenberg ^	8	–	1	9	–	2
Ursinus	6	–	3	7	–	3
Gettysburg	5	–	4	5	–	5
Franklin & Marshall	4	–	5	5	–	5
Juniata	4	–	5	5	–	5
Moravian	4	–	5	5	–	5
Dickinson	3	–	6	3	–	7
Susquehanna	2	–	7	2	–	8
McDaniel	0	–	9	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.8Wheaton (IL) $^	7	–	0	11	–	1
No.15North Central (IL)	6	–	1	8	–	2
Augustana (IL)	4	–	3	5	–	5
Elmhurst	4	–	3	5	–	5
Illinois Wesleyan	2	–	5	4	–	6
Carthage	2	–	5	3	–	7
North Park	2	–	5	2	–	8
Millikin	1	–	6	3	–	7

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Husson $^	7	–	0	8	–	2
Castleton	5	–	2	7	–	3
Norwich	5	–	2	7	–	4
Mount Ida	5	–	2	5	–	5
SUNY Maritime	3	–	4	4	–	6
Gallaudet	2	–	5	2	–	7
Becker	1	–	6	1	–	9
Anna Maria	0	–	7	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Empire 8 Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.21St. John Fisher +	6	–	2	9	–	2
Ithaca +^	6	–	2	7	–	4
Buffalo State	5	–	3	8	–	3
Salisbury	5	–	3	7	–	4
Utica	5	–	3	7	–	4
Alfred	3	–	5	5	–	5
Brockport	3	–	5	5	–	5
Frostburg State	2	–	6	4	–	6
Hartwick	1	–	7	2	–	8

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Franklin (IN) $^	8	–	0	8	–	3
Mount St. Joseph	7	–	1	8	–	2
Bluffton	6	–	2	6	–	4
Rose-Hulman	5	–	3	7	–	3
Manchester	3	–	5	4	–	6
Defiance	3	–	5	3	–	7
Anderson (IN)	2	–	6	2	–	8
Hanover	2	–	6	2	–	8
Earlham	0	–	8	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.4Wartburg $^	7	–	0	12	–	1
Central (IA)	6	–	1	8	–	2
Buena Vista	4	–	3	5	–	5
Coe	4	–	3	5	–	5
Dubuque	3	–	4	4	–	6
Luther	2	–	5	5	–	5
Loras	2	–	5	3	–	7
Simpson	0	–	7	3	–	7

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Liberty League football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.9Hobart $^	7	–	0	12	–	1
St. Lawrence	6	–	1	8	–	2
RPI	4	–	3	6	–	5
Rochester (NY)	3	–	4	5	–	4
Springfield	3	–	4	5	–	5
WPI	3	–	4	4	–	6
Union (NY)	2	–	5	2	–	8
Merchant Marine	0	–	7	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Framingham State $	8	–	0	10	–	1
Western Connecticut	6	–	2	7	–	4
Worcester State	5	–	3	7	–	3
Fitchburg State	4	–	4	6	–	4
Westfield State	4	–	4	5	–	5
Bridgewater State	3	–	5	4	–	6
Massachusetts Maritime	3	–	5	4	–	6
UMass Dartmouth	3	–	5	4	–	6
Plymouth State	0	–	8	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion

2014 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Adrian $^	5	–	1	8	–	3
Albion	4	–	2	6	–	4
Trine	4	–	2	6	–	4
Hope	3	–	3	6	–	4
Olivet	3	–	3	6	–	4
Kalamazoo	2	–	4	2	–	8
Alma	0	–	6	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.11Widener $^	9	–	0	12	–	1
No.25Delaware Valley ^	8	–	1	9	–	2
Lycoming	7	–	2	8	–	2
Stevenson	6	–	3	8	–	3
Albright	5	–	4	6	–	5
King's	4	–	5	4	–	6
Lebanon Valley	3	–	6	3	–	7
Wilkes	2	–	7	2	–	8
Misericordia	1	–	8	1	–	9
FDU Florham	0	–	9	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Midwest Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
North
Macalester xy$^	5	–	0	9	–	2
Carroll (WI)	4	–	1	8	–	2
St. Norbert	3	–	2	6	–	4
Ripon	2	–	3	3	–	7
Lawrence	1	–	4	2	–	8
Beloit	0	–	5	3	–	7
South
Illinois Collegexy	5	–	0	7	–	3
Monmouth (IL)	4	–	1	8	–	2
Cornell (IA)	3	–	2	5	–	4
Lake Forest	2	–	3	4	–	6
Grinnell	1	–	4	3	–	7
Knox	0	–	5	2	–	8
Championship: Macalester 30, Illinois College 27
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.12Saint John's (MN) $^	7	–	1	10	–	2
Concordia–Moorhead	6	–	2	8	–	2
No.16St. Thomas (MN) ^	6	–	2	8	–	3
Bethel (MN)	6	–	2	7	–	3
Gustavus Adolphus	4	–	4	6	–	4
Augsburg	3	–	5	4	–	6
Hamline	2	–	6	4	–	6
Carleton	1	–	7	2	–	8
St. Olaf	1	–	7	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 New England Football Conference standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
MIT $^	7	–	0	10	–	1
Western New England	5	–	2	8	–	2
Salve Regina	5	–	2	7	–	4
Endicott	4	–	3	5	–	5
Curry	3	–	4	3	–	7
Maine Maritime	2	–	5	3	–	6
Coast Guard	2	–	5	3	–	7
Nichols	0	–	7	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 New England Small College Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Amherst $	8	–	0	8	–	0
Wesleyan	7	–	1	7	–	1
Middlebury	6	–	2	6	–	2
Trinity (CT)	5	–	3	5	–	3
Bates	4	–	4	4	–	4
Tufts	4	–	4	4	–	4
Bowdoin	2	–	6	2	–	6
Colby	2	–	6	2	–	6
Williams	2	–	6	2	–	6
Hamilton	0	–	8	0	–	8

$ – Conference champion

2014 New Jersey Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Morrisville State +	6	–	1	9	–	2
Montclair State +	6	–	1	8	–	2
Rowan +^	6	–	1	7	–	4
Cortland	4	–	3	5	–	5
William Paterson	2	–	5	4	–	6
Kean	2	–	5	2	–	8
TCNJ	1	–	6	2	–	8
Southern Virginia #	1	–	6	1	–	9

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant # – Provisional NCAA Division III member

2014 North Coast Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.17Wittenberg $^	9	–	0	9	–	2
No.13Wabash ^	8	–	1	10	–	2
DePauw	6	–	3	7	–	3
Denison	5	–	4	6	–	4
Ohio Wesleyan	5	–	4	6	–	4
Hiram	4	–	5	5	–	5
Wooster	4	–	5	4	–	6
Oberlin	2	–	7	2	–	8
Allegheny	1	–	8	1	–	9
Kenyon	1	–	8	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Wisconsin Lutheran +	5	–	1	7	–	3
Lakeland +	5	–	1	6	–	4
Benedictine (IL) +^	5	–	1	6	–	5
Concordia (WI)	3	–	3	5	–	5
Rockford	1	–	5	2	–	8
Concordia (IL)	1	–	5	1	–	8
Aurora	1	–	5	1	–	9

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Northwest Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.3Linfield +^	6	–	1	11	–	2
Pacific (OR) +	6	–	1	6	–	3
Pacific Lutheran	5	–	2	7	–	2
Whitworth	4	–	3	6	–	4
Willamette	3	–	4	5	–	4
Puget Sound	3	–	4	4	–	5
George Fox	1	–	6	1	–	8
Lewis & Clark	0	–	7	0	–	9

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.2Mount Union $^	9	–	0	14	–	1
No.5John Carroll ^	8	–	1	11	–	2
Heidelberg	7	–	2	8	–	2
Ohio Northern	6	–	3	7	–	3
Otterbein	5	–	4	5	–	5
Baldwin Wallace	4	–	5	5	–	5
Muskingum	3	–	6	3	–	7
Capital	2	–	7	3	–	7
Marietta	1	–	8	2	–	8
Wilmington (OH)	0	–	9	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Old Dominion Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Bridgewater +	5	–	2	8	–	2
Emory & Henry +	5	–	2	8	–	2
Guilford +	5	–	2	8	–	2
Hampden–Sydney +^	5	–	2	7	–	4
Randolph–Macon	3	–	4	5	–	5
Shenandoah	2	–	5	4	–	6
Washington and Lee	2	–	5	2	–	8
Catholic University	1	–	6	3	–	7

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

2014 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.14Washington & Jefferson +^	7	–	1	10	–	2
Thomas More +	7	–	1	8	–	2
Waynesburg	6	–	2	8	–	3
Bethany (WV)	5	–	3	6	–	5
Saint Vincent	4	–	4	4	–	6
Westminster (PA)	4	–	4	4	–	6
Carnegie Mellon	3	–	5	4	–	6
Thiel	3	–	5	4	–	6
Case Western Reserve	3	–	5	3	–	7
Geneva	2	–	6	3	–	7
Grove City	0	–	8	0	–	10

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Southern Athletic Association football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.22Centre $^	6	–	0	10	–	1
Rhodes	5	–	1	8	–	2
Hendrix	3	–	3	6	–	4
Birmingham–Southern	3	–	3	3	–	7
Millsaps	2	–	4	3	–	6
Berry	1	–	5	2	–	8
Sewanee	1	–	5	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.18Chapman $^	7	–	0	8	–	2
Redlands	6	–	1	6	–	3
Claremont–Mudd–Scripps	4	–	3	5	–	4
Occidental	4	–	3	5	–	4
Cal Lutheran	4	–	3	4	–	5
La Verne	1	–	6	2	–	7
Whittier	1	–	6	2	–	7
Pomona–Pitzer	1	–	6	1	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.19Texas Lutheran $^	3	–	0	9	–	2
Trinity (TX)	2	–	1	4	–	6
Austin	1	–	2	5	–	5
Southwestern (TX)	0	–	3	1	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
St. Scholastica $^	9	–	0	10	–	1
Northwestern (MN)	7	–	2	8	–	2
Greenville	7	–	2	7	–	3
Iowa Wesleyan #	6	–	3	6	–	4
Westminster (MO)	6	–	3	6	–	4
Crown	4	–	5	4	–	6
MacMurray	3	–	6	3	–	7
Eureka	2	–	7	2	–	8
Martin Luther	1	–	8	2	–	8
Minnesota–Morris	0	–	9	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant # – Provisional NCAA Division III member

2014 USA South Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.24Christopher Newport $^	7	–	1	8	–	4
Huntingdon	6	–	2	7	–	3
Maryville (TN)	6	–	2	7	–	3
Methodist	5	–	3	6	–	4
North Carolina Wesleyan	4	–	4	5	–	5
LaGrange	3	–	5	5	–	5
Greensboro	3	–	5	3	–	7
Averett	1	–	7	2	–	8
Ferrum	1	–	7	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No.1Wisconsin–Whitewater $^	7	–	0	15	–	0
No.20Wisconsin–Oshkosh	6	–	1	6	–	4
Wisconsin–Platteville	5	–	2	7	–	3
Wisconsin–Stevens Point	4	–	3	7	–	3
Wisconsin–La Crosse	2	–	5	3	–	7
Wisconsin–River Falls	2	–	5	3	–	7
Wisconsin–Stout	1	–	6	2	–	8
Wisconsin–Eau Claire	1	–	6	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant Rankings from D3football.com

2014 NCAA Division III independents football records
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
Chicago		–		8	–	1
No.7Wesley ^		–		12	–	2
Washington University		–		4	–	6
Alfred State #		–		1	–	7
Maranatha Baptist		–		0	–	6

^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant # – Provisional Division III member Rankings from D3football.com

Conference summaries[edit]

Conference champions
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin–Baylor (9–0, 4–0) Centennial Conference – Johns Hopkins (9–0, 8–0) College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Wheaton (IL) (9–0, 6–0) Eastern Collegiate Football Conference – Husson (8–2, 7–0) Empire 8 Conference – Ithaca (7–2, 6–2) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Franklin (7–0, 7–2) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wartburg (9–0, 6–0) Liberty League – Hobart (9–0, 6–0) Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference – Framingham State (10–1, 8–0) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Adrian (8–3, 5–1) Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener (12–0, 9–0) Midwest Conference – Macalester (9–2, 5–0) Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) (10–2, 7–1) New England Football Conference – MIT (8–3, 7–0) New England Small College Athletic Conference – Amherst (8–0, 8–0) New Jersey Athletic Conference – Morrisville State (9–2, 6–1), Montclair State (8–2, 6–1), and Rowan (7–4, 6–1) North Coast Athletic Conference – Wittenberg (8–1, 8–0) Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference – Wisconsin Lutheran (7–3, 5–1) Northwest Conference – Linfield (10–1, 6–1) Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union (12–0, 9–0) Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Hampden–Sydney (7–4, 5–2) Presidents' Athletic Conference – Thomas More (8–2, 7–1) and Washington & Jefferson (9–1, 7–1) Southern Athletic Association – Centre (10–1, 6–0) Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Chapman (7–1, 6–0) Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Texas Lutheran (8–1, 2–0) University Athletic Association – Chicago (8–1, 3–0) Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – St. Scholastica (10–0, 9–0) United States South Athletic Conference – Christopher Newport (8–2, 6–1) Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater (9–0, 6–0)

Headlines[edit]

October 18
- Lance Leipold, head coach at Wisconsin–Whitewater, sets an all-divisions NCAA record for the fewest games required to reach 100 career wins, doing so in his 106th career game, a 52–3 blowout of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. The previous record was set by Hall of Fame coach Gil Dobie, who reached the 100-win mark in his 108th game at Cornell in 1921.^[2]

Postseason[edit]

Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, three conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the second year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013, was in the second year of the two-year grace period.

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 24 Pool A conferences contained 207 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-four schools were in Pool B, enough for two bids.

The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.

Playoff bracket[edit]

First Round November 22 Campus Sites		Second Round November 29 Campus Sites		Quarterfinals December 6 Campus Sites		Semifinals December 13 Campus Sites		National Championship Game December 19

Wisconsin–Whitewater*	55
Macalester	2	Wisconsin–Whitewater*	38
Wabash*	33	Wabash	14
Franklin	14			Wisconsin–Whitewater*	37
Saint John's (MN)*	35			Wartburg	33
St. Scholastica	7	St. John's (MN)	10
Wartburg*	37	Wartburg*	21
St. Thomas (MN)	31					Wisconsin–Whitewater*	20
Widener*	36					Linfield	14
Muhlenberg	35	Widener*	37
Delaware Valley*	26	Christopher Newport	27
Christopher Newport	29			Widener*	7
Linfield*	55			Linfield	45
Chapman	24	Linfield	31
Mary Hardin–Baylor*	27	Mary Hardin–Baylor*	28
Texas Lutheran	20							Wisconsin-Whitewater	43
Wesley*	52							Mount Union	34
Hampden–Sydney	7	Wesley*	59
Husson*	20	MIT	0
MIT	27*			Wesley*	41
Johns Hopkins*	24			Hobart	13
Rowan	16	Johns Hopkins	21
Hobart*	22	Hobart*	24
Ithaca	15					Wesley	21
Wheaton (IL)*	43					Mount Union*	70
Benedictine (IL)	14	Wheaton (IL)*	12
John Carroll*	63	John Carroll	14
Centre	28			John Carroll	28
Wittenberg*	25			Mount Union*	36
Washington & Jefferson	41	Washington & Jefferson	0
Mount Union*	63	Mount Union*	67
Adrian	3

* Home team † Overtime Winner

References[edit]

^ 2014 Division III football schedule - D3football

^ "Lance Leipold fastest to 100 wins". ESPN.com. October 18, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2014.

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