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The tournament concluded with a single game, played as the 68th Annual NAIA Football National Championship. The championship game was played at Durham County Memorial Stadium in Durham, North Carolina , between the undefeated 14–0 No. 1 Northwestern Red Raiders , representing Northwestern College from Orange City, Iowa , and the 11–2 No. 3 ...
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.
The NAIA Council of Presidents voted on and approved expanding the NAIA football playoffs from 16 to 20 teams effective for this season. Under the new format, there will be 13 automatic qualifiers, with 7 more at-large teams picked from the Top 25 teams in the final NAIA Coaches Poll, and the top 12 seeds will receive a bye in the first round.
The Raiders beat the Seahawks 35-25 in last year's championship game. "Super proud of these guys," Keiser coach Doug Socha said. "It was a back-and-forth game. ...
Baker wins, Ottawa falls as NAIA playoffs begin. Baker and Ottawa were among the 20-team field (12 auto-qualifiers, seven at-large berths) for this year’s NAIA postseason tournament, which ...
The Friends football team defeated Southwestern 37-31 in wild fashion on Saturday, as the Falcons blocked a potential game-winning field goal and returned the block 77 yards for a walk-off touchdown.
The 2022 NAIA football season is the component of the 2022 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. The regular season began on August 25 and culminated on November 12.
The playoffs featured two teams in 1956, four teams from 1958, eight teams from 1978, sixteen teams from 1987, and twenty teams from 2023 until the present. 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.