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1986 NCAA Division I AA football season

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Duration
  
August – November 1986

Duration
  
November 29 – December 20, 1986

Championship site
  
Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, WA

Champion
  
Georgia Southern Eagles football

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The 1986 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 Football Championship Subdivision level, began in August 1986, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 20, 1986, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. The Georgia Southern Eagles won their second consecutive I-AA championship, defeating the Arkansas State Indians (now Red Wolves) by a final score of 48−21.

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Conference changes and new programs

  • Prior to the season, the Colonial League, now known as the Patriot League, was established as a six-member, football-only league for teams in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The Colonial League, however, was totally separate from the current Colonial Athletic Association.
  • Prior to the 1986 season, the Gateway Conference was formed out of the four remaining members of the disbanded Association of Mid-Continent Universities (Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Western Illinois, Southwest Missouri State) and two former members of the Missouri Valley Conference (Illinois State and Southern Illinois). The MVC stopped sponsoring Division I-A football after the 1985 season.

    • NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

    * Denotes host institution

    References

    1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season Wikipedia
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