2011 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 2011

Playoffs

November – December 2011

National
championship

Salem Football Stadium
Salem, VA

Champions

Wisconsin–Whitewater (4)

Gagliardi Trophy

Michael Zweifel (WR), Dubuque

Division III football seasons
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The 2011 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 in August 2011, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2011 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks won their fourth, and third consecutive, Division III championship by defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, 13−10. This was the seventh of seven straight championship games between Mount Union (3 wins) and Wisconsin–Whitewater (4 wins).

The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Michael Zweifel, wide receiver from Dubuque.^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin–Baylor Centennial Conference – Johns Hopkins College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – North Central (IL) Eastern Collegiate Football Conference – Norwich Empire 8 Conference – Salisbury Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Franklin Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Dubuque Liberty League – Hobart and Union (NY) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Delaware Valley Midwest Conference – Monmouth (IL) Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – St. Thomas (MN) New England Football Conference – Framingham State (Bogan Division), Western New England (Boyd Division) Championship Game: Western New England 20, Framingham State 13 (OT) New England Small College Athletic Conference – Amherst New Jersey Athletic Conference – Kean North Coast Athletic Conference – Wabash Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference – Benedictine (IL) and Concordia Chicago Northwest Conference – Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Hampden–Sydney and Washington & Lee Presidents' Athletic Conference – Thomas More Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – California Lutheran Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX) University Athletic Association – Case Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – St. Scholastica USA South Athletic Conference – Christopher Newport Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Whitewater

Postseason

The 2011 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 39th 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 Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the 19th time.^[2]

Playoff bracket

First Round Campus Sites		Second Round Campus Sites		Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia

Wisconsin–Whitewater	59
Albion	0	Wisconsin–Whitewater	41
Franklin	24	Franklin	14
Thomas More	21			Wisconsin–Whitewater	34
Kean	34			Salisbury	14
Christopher Newport	10	Kean	47
Salisbury	62	Salisbury	49
Western New England	24					Wisconsin–Whitewater	20
St. Thomas (MN)	48					St. Thomas (MN)	0
St. Scholastica	2	St. Thomas (MN)	38
Monmouth (IL)	33	Monmouth (IL)	10
Illinois Wesleyan	24			St. Thomas (MN)	45
St. John Fisher	23			St. John Fisher	10
Johns Hopkins	12	St. John Fisher	27
Delaware Valley	62	Delaware Valley	14
Norwich	10							Wisconsin–Whitewater	13
Mary Hardin–Baylor	34							Mount Union	10
Redlands	13	Mary Hardin–Baylor	49
McMurry	25	McMurry	20
Trinity (TX)	16			Mary Hardin–Baylor	24
Linfield	30			Wesley	27
California Lutheran	27	Linfield	34
Wesley	35	Wesley	49
Hobart	28					Wesley	21
Wabash	38					Mount Union	28
Illinois College	20	Wabash	29
North Central (IL)	59	North Central (IL)	28
Dubuque	13			Wabash	8
Centre	51			Mount Union	20
Hampden–Sydney	41	Centre	10
Mount Union	47	Mount Union	30
Benedictine (IL)	7

* Overtime

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
↑ "2007 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 15. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

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2011 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

Playoff bracket

See also

References