1975 NCAA Division II football season

1975 NCAA Division II football season
Regular season	September – November 1975
Playoffs	November – December 1975
National Championship	Hughes Stadium Sacramento, CA
Champion	Northern Michigan

The 1975 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in September and concluded with the Division II Championship on December 13 at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California.

Northern Michigan defeated Western Kentucky in the championship game, 16–14, to win their first Division II national title.^[1]^[2]

Conference and program changes

The South Atlantic Conference (SAC-8) was formed as a football-only conference by eight teams from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

School	1974 Conference	1975 Conference
Elon	Conference Carolinas (NAIA)	South Atlantic
Gardner–Webb	NAIA Independent	South Atlantic
Vermont	Yankee	Dropped Program

Conference standings

1975 Big Sky football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#6 Boise State $^	5	–	0	–	1	9	–	2	–	1
Idaho State	4	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Montana State	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Idaho	2	–	2	–	2	4	–	5	–	2
Montana	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Weber State	1	–	4	–	1	1	–	9	–	1
Northern Arizona	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division II playoff participant Boise State advanced to Div. II playoffs.

1975 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
UC Riverside $	4	–	0	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Cal Poly	3	–	1	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Cal Poly Pomona	2	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	1
Cal State Northridge	1	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	1
Cal State Los Angeles	0	–	4	–	0	1	–	7	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1975 Far Western Conference football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
UC Davis $	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Humboldt State	4	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Sacramento State	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
San Francisco State	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Chico State	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Cal State Hayward	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion

1975 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
SE Missouri State $	6	–	0	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
NE Missouri State	4	–	2	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
NW Missouri State	3	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
SW Missouri State	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	1
Central Missouri State	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Missouri-Rolla	1	–	5	–	0	1	–	8	–	2
Lincoln (MO)	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division II playoff participant

1975 Yankee Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
New Hampshire $		5	–	0		9	–	3
UMass		4	–	1		8	–	2
Connecticut		3	–	2		4	–	7
Boston University		2	–	3		5	–	6
Maine		1	–	4		4	–	6
Rhode Island		1	–	4		2	–	8

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Conference summaries

Conference Champions
Big Sky Conference – Boise State Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Norfolk State Far Western Football Conference – UC Davis Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wayne State Gulf South Conference – Nicholls State Lone Star Conference – Texas A&I Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Southeast Missouri State North Central Conference – North Dakota Northern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota–Morris Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – East Stroudsburg Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Western State South Atlantic Conference – Lenoir-Rhyne Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II) – Bethune-Cookman Yankee Conference – New Hampshire

Postseason

1975 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs
Teams	8
Finals Site	Charles C. Hughes Stadium Sacramento, California
Champions	Northern Michigan 1st title 1st championship game 1 tournaments
Runner-Up	Western Kentucky 2nd championship game 2 tournaments
Semifinalists	West Alabama 1 tournaments New Hampshire 1 tournaments
Winning Coach	Gil Krueger 1st championship

The 1975 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the third single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II college football.

The four quarterfinal games were played on campus and all four host teams lost. The semifinals were the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Grantland Rice Bowl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The championship game was the Camellia Bowl, held at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California for the third and final time. The Northern Michigan Wildcats defeated the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 16–14 to win their first national title. Of all current members of Division II, as of 2015, Northern Michigan was the first to win the playoff national championship. They went from winless (0–10) in 1974 to 13–1 and national champions in 1975,^[2] led by sophomore quarterback Steve Mariucci,^[3] later a head coach in the NFL for nine seasons.

Playoff bracket

First round Campus sites November 29		Semifinals Pioneer Bowl Grantland Rice Bowl December 6		Championship Camellia Bowl Hughes Stadium Sacramento, CA December 13


Northern Michigan	24

Boise State *	21
		Northern Michigan	28

		West Alabama	26
West Alabama	34

North Dakota *	14
				Northern Michigan	16

				Western Kentucky	14
Western Kentucky	14

Northern Iowa *	12
		Western Kentucky	14

		New Hampshire	3
New Hampshire	35

Lehigh *	21

* Denotes host institution

References

↑ "1975 NCAA Division II National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 13. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
1 2 "Winless in '74, then a title in '75". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 14, 1975. p. 10B.
↑ "Fumbles cost Boise 24-21". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. November 30, 1975. p. 3B.

NCAA Division II football

Seasons

Playoffs

Championship games

Bowl era	East: Tangerine Bowl (1964–1967), Boardwalk Bowl (1968–1972) Mideast: Grantland Rice Bowl (1964–1972) Midwest: Pecan Bowl (1964–1970), Pioneer Bowl (1971–1972) West: Camellia Bowl (1964–1967)
Playoff era	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Records & statistics

Appearances
Individual records
Team records

NCAA football seasons
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NCAA University Division/ Division I	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
NCAA Division I-A/FBS	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
NCAA Division I-AA/FCS	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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