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1987 NAIA Division I football season

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Regular season
  
August–November 1987

Champions
  
Cameron

Postseason
  
November 28–December 19, 1987

National Championship
  
Cameron Stadium Lawton, OK

The 1987 NAIA Division I football season, as part of the 1987 college football season in the United States and the 32nd season of college football sponsored by the NAIA, was the 18th season of play of the NAIA's top division for football.

The season was played from August to November 1987 and culminated in the 1987 NAIA Champion Bowl playoffs and the 1987 NAIA Champion Bowl, played this year on December 19, 1987 at Cameron Stadium in Lawton, Oklahoma, on the campus of Cameron University.

Cameron defeated Carson–Newman in the Champion Bowl (a re-match of the previous year's final, won by the Eagles), 30–2, to win their first NAIA national title.

Format

  • After nine seasons of an eight-team bracket, the tournament field expanded to sixteen. In turn, the playoffs began during the month of November for the first time since 1975.

    • References

    1987 NAIA Division I football season Wikipedia
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