2012 Frontier Conference football season

2012 Frontier Conference football season
League NAIA
Sport football
Duration Fall-Winter 2012
Number of teams 9
2012
Conference Champion Southern Oregon
Montana Tech
(co-champins)
2012 Frontier Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
# 5 Southern Oregon §^   8 2         9 3  
# 12 Montana Tech §^   8 2         8 3  
# 21 Carroll (MT)   7 3         7 4  
Rocky Mountain   5 5         6 5  
Montana Western   4 6         4 6  
Eastern Oregon   4 6         4 6  
Montana State-Northern   3 7         3 7  
Dickinson State (ND)   1 9         2 9  
§ Conference co-champions
^ FCS playoff participant
Rankings from NAIA Coaches' Poll[1]

The 2012 Frontier Conference football season is made up of nine United States college athletic programs that compete in the Frontier Conference under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2012 college football season.[2] Southern Oregon and Montana Tech were declared co-champions at the end of the season.[3] Both championship teams advanced to the 2012 NAIA Football National Championship.[4]

Awards

The conference made the following awards at the end of the season:

The conference also selected other players to all-conference first and second teams[5] and also declared academic all-conference team honors. Carroll College led the academic awards with 31 student-athletes selected.[6]

Two coaches from the conference were recognized by the American Football Coaches Association. Head coach Chuck Morrell of Montana Tech was named the NAIA Region 5 Coach of the Year and Jim Hogan at Carroll College was a finalist for Assistant Coach of the Year honors.[7]

References

  1. "NAIA Football Coaches’ Postseason Top 25 Poll". National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. December 18, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  2. "Frontier Conference". DakTronics 3000. Daktronics, Inc. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  3. Mansch, Scott (November 14, 2012). "Frontier Conference Extra: Long road trip unlikely to bother Orediggers". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
  4. "2012 Football Championship Series Pairings Announced". National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. November 11, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  5. "2012 Football All-Conference Team Announced". Frontier Conference. November 21, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  6. "2012 Football Academic All-Conference Team Announced". Frontier Conference. February 17, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  7. "Two Frontier Coaches Recognized by AFCA". Frontier Conference. December 3, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2013.

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