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1981 NCAA Division I AA football season

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Duration
  
August – November 1981

Duration
  
December 5–19, 1981

Championship site
  
Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX

Champion
  
Idaho State Bengals football

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1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season

The 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, began in August 1981 and concluded with the Division I-AA championship game on December 19 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Idaho State Bengals won their only I-AA championship, defeating the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the Pioneer Bowl, 34−23.

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Conference changes and new programs

  • Prior to the 1981 season, the Mid-Continent Conference was shifted from Division II to Division I-AA; its four members, Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Western Illinois, and Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State), all made the transition.
  • Northern Michigan and Youngstown State, who had been members of the Mid-Continent the previous season, departed the league before the shift.
  • After the 1981 season, three conferences, and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA: the Ivy League, the Southern Conference, and the Southland Conference

    • NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

    * Denotes host institution

    References

    1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season Wikipedia
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