1993 NAIA Division I football season | |
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Regular season | August–November 1993 |
Postseason | November 20–December 11, 1993 |
National Championship | Norris Field Ada, OK |
Champions | East Central |
The 1993 NAIA Division I football season was the 38th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA, was the 24th season of play of the NAIA's top division for football.
The season was played from August to November 1993 and culminated in the 1993 NAIA Champion Bowl playoffs and the 1993 NAIA Champion Bowl, played this year on December 11, 1993, at Norris Field in Ada, Oklahoma, on the campus of East Central University.[1]
East Central defeated Glenville State in the Champion Bowl, 49–35, to win their first NAIA national title.[2]
Conference and membership changes
Conference changes
- This is the final season that the NAIA official recognizes a conference champion in football from the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, and West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.[3] The Northern Sun and WVIAC would transition to the NCAA Division II level, while the AIC's membership would eventually be lost to two existing Division II leagues.
Membership changes
Team | 1992 conference | 1993 conference |
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Central Arkansas | Arkansas (NAIA) | Gulf South (NCAA D-II) |
Henderson State | Arkansas (NAIA) | Gulf South (NCAA D-II) |
Conference standings
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Conference champions
Conference | Champion | Record |
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Arkansas Intercollegiate | Arkansas–Monticello | 4–0 |
Frontier | Carroll (MT) Montana Western |
5–1 |
Northern Sun | Winona State | 5–1 |
Oklahoma | Langston | 4–1 |
WVIAC | Glenville State | 6–1 |
Postseason
Quarterfinals November 20, 1993 Campus sites | Semifinals December 4, 1993 Campus sites | 1992 Champion Bowl December 11, 1993 Ada, OK | ||||||||||||
Central State (OH) | 58 | |||||||||||||
Winona State* | 7 | |||||||||||||
Central State (OH) | 12 | |||||||||||||
Glenville State* | 13 | |||||||||||||
Glenville State | 41 | |||||||||||||
Carroll (MT)* | 24 | |||||||||||||
Glenville State | 35 | |||||||||||||
East Central* | 49 | |||||||||||||
Langston | 13 | |||||||||||||
Arkansas–Monticello* | 26 | |||||||||||||
Arkansas–Monticello | 0 | |||||||||||||
East Central* | 27 | |||||||||||||
East Central | 24 | |||||||||||||
Western New Mexico* | 22 |
See also
- 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season
- 1993 NCAA Division I-AA football season
- 1993 NCAA Division II football season
- 1993 NCAA Division III football season
References
- ^ "NAIA Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. pp. 4–11. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 15, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
- ^ "1993 Division I NAIA Football Playoffs". JonFMorse.com. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
- ^ "NAIA Football Regular Season Records" (PDF). NAIA. pp. 20–22. Retrieved December 11, 2021.