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The NAIA football national championship is decided by a post-season playoff system featuring the best National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) college football teams in the United States. Under sponsorship of the NAIA, the championship game has been played annually since 1956.
Besides the six bowl games that are part of the College Football Playoff, there are a number of other postseason invitationals. Generally, two conferences will agree to send teams of a particular standing to a game beforehand. For instance, the Rose Bowl traditionally features the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference champions. Generally, the payout ...
A separate NAIA Division II football national championship was also held between 1970 and 1996, with the same number of teams competing in its annual playoffs. [1] Many of the teams who participated in past editions of the playoffs have subsequently joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or disbanded their programs.
The 12-team College Football Playoff has given us more games and also juggled the bowl schedule. Bowl season begins on Dec. 14 and now ends on Jan. 4 for the non-playoff bowls.
The Camellia Bowl served as the NAIA Football National Championship game for three years. After the transition from NAIA to NCAA affiliation, announced in January 1964, [2] the game became one of four regional finals in the NCAA College Division. At the time, there were no playoffs at any level of NCAA football.
President Richard Nixon attended the game, bringing with him a plaque in which he unilaterally declared the winner "the number-one college football team in college football's one-hundredth year." [ 22 ] Nixon's stunt drew chagrin from observers who thought it premature to do so before the New Year's Day bowl games, and of fans of Penn State ...
The Victory Bowl is the annual championship game for football-playing members of the National Christian College Athletic Association whose teams do not qualify for either the NCAA or NAIA playoffs. It is one of the few post-season bowl games for smaller schools.
The season was played from August to November 1979 and culminated in the 1979 NAIA Division I Football National Championship. Known again this year as the Palm Bowl , the title game was played on December 15, 1979, at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas .