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1993 NCAA Division I AA football season

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Duration
  
August – November 1993

Duration
  
November 27 –December 18, 1993

Championship site
  
Joan C. Edwards Stadium, Huntington, West Virginia

Payton Award
  
Champion
  
Youngstown State Penguins football

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1992 NCAA Division I-AA football season

The 1993 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 1993, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 18 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. The Youngstown State Penguins won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Marshall Thundering Herd by a final score of 17−5, a home game for Marshall. It was the third consecutive year that Marshall and Youngstown State faced off in National Championship Game.

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Conference changes and new programs

  • A 1991 NCAA rule change required athletic programs maintain all of their sports at the same division level by the 1993 season. As such, many Division I programs with football teams at the Division II and Division III levels were forced to upgrade their programs to the Division I-AA level.
  • The rule change directly led to the establishment of the Pioneer Football League, a non-scholarship football conference at the Division I-AA level with six founding members, all formerly in Division III: Butler, Dayton, Drake, Evansville, San Diego, and Valparaiso.
  • It also led to the creation of the American West Conference, an all-sports conference at the Division I level with five founding members, all formerly in Division II: UC Davis, Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge, Sacramento State, and Southern Utah.
  • The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, an existing Division I conference, also began sponsoring football in order to accommodate these new I-AA football programs.
  • NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

    * Next to team name denotes host institution

    * Next to score denotes overtime period

    References

    1993 NCAA Division I-AA football season Wikipedia


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