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1978 NCAA Division II football season

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Regular season
  
August – November 1978

Champions
  
Eastern Illinois

Playoffs
  
December 1978

National Championship
  
Lobo Stadium Longview, TX

The 1978 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 August 1978, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship in December 1978 at Lobo Stadium in Longview, Texas. The Eastern Illinois Panthers defeated the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens, 10–9, to win their first Division II national title.

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Conference changes and new programs

  • Five conferences and five other programs departed Division II for the newly formed Division I-AA.
  • The Mid-Continent Conference was established as a Division II football conference with six teams from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio.

    • Postseason

    The 1978 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the sixth single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at Lobo Stadium in Longview, Texas for the first time.

    References

    1978 NCAA Division II football season Wikipedia
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