1992 NCAA Division I-AA football season

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1992 NCAA Division I-AA season
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Regular season
Number of teams89
DurationSeptember 5–November 21
Payton Award Michael Payton
Playoff
DurationNovember 28–December 19
Championship date December 19, 1992
Championship site Marshall University Stadium
Huntington, West Virginia
Champion Marshall
NCAA Division I-AA football seasons
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The 1992 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began on September 5, 1992, and concluded with the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 19, 1992, in Huntington, West Virginia. The Marshall Thundering Herd defeated the Youngstown State Penguins by a score of 31–28. [1] It was the second consecutive year that Marshall and Youngstown State faced off in the I-AA title game.

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Notable changes

Prior to the season, the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, otherwise a women's sports league but sponsoring football as its only men's sport since the 1985 collapse of the football side of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), merged into the MVC. The football league became the standalone Gateway Football Conference, forerunner of the present-day Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC).

Conference changes

School1991 Conference1992 Conference
Arkansas State I-AA Independent I-A Independent
Nevada Big Sky (I-AA) Big West (I-A)
Tennessee–Martin D-II Independent Ohio Valley

Conference standings

1992 Big Sky Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Idaho $^ 6 –1 –09 –3 –0
No. 14 Eastern Washington ^ 6 –1 –07 –4 –0
Weber State 4 –3 –06 –5 –0
Montana 4 –3 –06 –5 –0
Boise State 3 –4 –05 –6 –0
Northern Arizona 2 –5 –04 –7 –0
Montana State 2 –5 –04 –7 –0
Idaho State 1 –6 –03 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Gateway Football Conference standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 3 Northern Iowa $^ 5 –1 –012 –2 –0
No. 20 Western Illinois 4 –2 –07 –4 –0
Southwest Missouri State 4 –2 –06 –5 –0
Eastern Illinois 2 –4 –05 –6 –0
Illinois State 2 –4 –05 –6 –0
Indiana State 2 –4 –04 –7 –0
Southern Illinois 2 –4 –04 –7 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth + 6 –1 –08 –2 –0
Princeton + 6 –1 –08 –2 –0
Penn 5 –2 –07 –3 –0
Cornell 4 –3 –07 –3 –0
Harvard 3 –4 –03 –7 –0
Yale 2 –5 –04 –6 –0
Columbia 2 –5 –03 –7 –0
Brown 0 –7 –00 –10 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions
1992 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 17 North Carolina A&T $^ 5 –1 –09 –3 –0
No. 15 Florida A&M 4 –2 –07 –4 –0
South Carolina State 4 –2 –07 –4 –0
Howard 3 –3 –07 –4 –0
Delaware State 3 –3 –06 –5 –0
Bethune–Cookman 2 –4 –04 –7 –0
Morgan State 0 –6 –02 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Ohio Valley Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Middle Tennessee $^ 8 –0 –010 –3 –0
No. 12 Eastern Kentucky ^ 7 –1 –09 –3 –0
Tennessee Tech 6 –2 –07 –4 –0
Tennessee State 5 –3 –05 –6 –0
Morehead State 3 –5 –03 –8 –0
Austin Peay 2 –6 –03 –8 –0
Tennessee–Martin 2 –6 –03 –8 –0
Southeast Missouri State 2 –6 –02 –9 –0
Murray State 1 –7 –02 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Patriot League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Lafayette $ 5 –0 –08 –3 –0
Holy Cross 4 –1 –06 –5 –0
Colgate 2 –3 –04 –7 –0
Lehigh 2 –3 –03 –8 –0
Bucknell 1 –4 –04 –7 –0
Fordham 1 –4 –01 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1992 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 The Citadel $^ 6 –1 –011 –2 –0
No. 6 Marshall ^ 5 –2 –012 –3 –0
No. 16 Appalachian State ^ 5 –2 –07 –5 –0
Western Carolina 5 –2 –07 –4 –0
Furman 4 –3 –06 –5 –0
East Tennessee State 2 –5 –05 –6 –0
VMI 1 –6 –03 –8 –0
Chattanooga 0 –7 –02 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Southland Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 Northeast Louisiana $^ 7 –0 –010 –3 –0
No. 11 McNeese State ^ 6 –1 –09 –4 –0
Northwestern State 4 –3 –07 –4 –0
Sam Houston State 3 –2 –26 –3 –2
North Texas 3 –4 –04 –7 –0
Southwest Texas State 2 –4 –15 –5 –1
Stephen F. Austin 1 –6 –03 –8 –0
Nicholls State 0 –6 –11 –9 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 18 Alcorn State $^ 7 –0 –07 –4 –0
Grambling State 6 –1 –010 –2 –0
Jackson State 4 –3 –07 –4 –0
Alabama State 3 –4 –05 –6 –0
Southern 3 –4 –05 –6 –0
Texas Southern 3 –4 –05 –6 –0
Mississippi Valley State 2 –5 –04 –5 –0
Prairie View A&M 0 –7 –00 –11 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 Yankee Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 8 Delaware $^ 7 –1 –011 –3 –0
No. 10 Villanova ^ 6 –2 –09 –3 –0
UMass 5 –3 –07 –3 –0
Richmond 5 –3 –07 –4 –0
Maine 4 –4 –06 –5 –0
Connecticut 4 –4 –06 –5 –0
New Hampshire 3 –5 –05 –5 –1
Boston University 2 –6 –03 –8 –0
Rhode Island 0 –8 –01 –10 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll
1992 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 13 William & Mary  – 9 –2 –0
No. 7 Youngstown State ^  – 9 –2 –1
No. 9 Samford ^  – 9 –3 –0
Georgia Southern  – 7 –4 –0
No. 19 Liberty  – 7 –4 –0
UCF  – 6 –4 –0
Northeastern  – 5 –5 –1
Towson State  – 5 –5 –0
Hofstra  – 4 –6 –0
Western Kentucky  – 4 –6 –0
James Madison  – 4 –7 –0
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll

Conference champions

This is a listing of conference champions. [2]

ConferenceChampion
Atlantic 10 Conference Delaware
Big Sky Conference Idaho and Eastern Washington
Ivy League Dartmouth and Princeton
Gateway Football Conference Northern Iowa
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference North Carolina A&T
Ohio Valley Conference Middle Tennessee
Patriot League Lafayette
Southern Conference The Citadel
Southland Conference Northeast Louisiana
Southwestern Athletic Conference Alcorn State

Postseason

Only the top four teams in the field were seeded, and thus assured of home games in their first-round games. [3] The site of the title game, Marshall University Stadium, had been predetermined months before the playoffs began. [4]

NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket

First Round
November 28
Campus sites		Quarterfinals
December 5
Campus sites		Semifinals
December 12
Campus sites		 National Championship Game
December 19
Marshall University Stadium
Huntington, West Virginia
            
Alcorn State 27
1 Northeast Louisiana * 78
1 Northeast Louisiana* 18
Delaware41
Samford 21
Delaware * 56
Delaware 7
Marshall* 28
Appalachian State 10
4 Middle Tennessee * 35
4 Middle Tennessee 21
Marshall* 35
Eastern Kentucky 0
Marshall * 44
Marshall31
Youngstown State 28
North Carolina A&T 0
2 The Citadel * 44
2 The Citadel* 17
Youngstown State42
Villanova 20
Youngstown State * 23
Youngstown State19
3 Northern Iowa* 7
Eastern Washington 14
3 Northern Iowa * 17
3Northern Iowa* 29
McNeese State 7
McNeese State 23
Idaho* 20

*Next to team name denotes host institution
Source: [5]

Final poll standings

NCAA [6]
RankingTeam
1 The Citadel
1 Northeast Louisiana
3 Northern Iowa
4 Middle Tennessee
5 Idaho
6 Marshall
7 Youngstown State
8 Delaware
9 Samford
10 Villanova
11 McNeese State
12 Eastern Kentucky
13 William & Mary
14 Eastern Washington
15 Florida A&M
16 Appalachian State
17 North Carolina
18 Alcorn State
19 Liberty
20 Western Illinois

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References

  1. ↑ "1992 NCAA Division I Football Championship" (PDF). NCAA.org. p. 15. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ "NCAA Football Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 13. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jensen, Mike (November 23, 1992). "'Nova girds for playoff on Youngstown's turf". The Philadelphia Inquirer . p. C10. Retrieved April 15, 2019– via newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Nielsen, Brian (September 9, 1992). "Here's the Word about The Herd". Journal Gazette. Mattoon, Illinois. p. B3. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. p. 15. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
  6. ↑ "2013 NCAA Football Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 50. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
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