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
^ Quillin, Kurtis (June 26, 2020). "NCAA denies UMHB sanctions appeal" . KCEN-TV . Retrieved November 7, 2021 .
^ "Carrol returns to CCIW" , D3sports.com. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
^ "War Hawks Tabbed Fifth in 2016 ASC Football Poll" , McMurry War Hawks. July 19, 2016.
^ "NWU gives up NAIA status, will join IIAC" , D3sports.com. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
^ "Division III Team Pages" , D3football.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
^ "Commonwealth Coast Conference To Administer Football Championship Beginning in 2017-18" (Press release). Commonwealth Coast Conference. October 5, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2016 .