1973 NCAA Division II football season

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1973 NCAA Division II football season
Regular season August – November 1973
Postseason
National Championship Hughes Stadium
Sacramento, California
Champions Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Division II football season
«1972 1974»

The 1973 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 1973, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 16, 1978, at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. In the first ever season of Division II football after these teams split away from the Division I Small College Division after the 1972 season.

Louisiana Tech won their first Division II championship, defeating Western Kentucky in the championship game by a final score of 34−0.[1]

Conference changes and new programs

School 1972 Conference 1973 Conference
Akron Independent D-II Independent
Eastern Michigan Independent D-II Independent
Illinois State Independent D-II Independent
Nevada–Reno Independent D-II Independent

Conference standings

1973 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
SE Missouri State $ 5 – 1 – 0     6 – 4 – 0
NW Missouri State 4 – 2 – 0     6 – 5 – 0
Lincoln (MO) 3 – 3 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
SW Missouri State 3 – 3 – 0     3 – 7 – 0
Missouri-Rolla 2 – 3 – 1     3 – 6 – 2
NE Missouri State 2 – 3 – 1     2 – 7 – 2
Central Missouri State 1 – 5 – 0     2 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant


1973 Southland Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Louisiana Tech $^ 5 – 0 – 0     12 – 1 – 0
Arkansas State 3 – 2 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
Lamar 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 5 – 0
McNeese State 2 – 3 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
Texas–Arlington 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 6 – 0
SW Louisiana 0 – 5 – 0     0 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant
1973 Yankee Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Connecticut $ 5 – 0 – 1     8 – 2 – 1
Rhode Island 4 – 2 – 0     6 – 2 – 2
UMass 4 – 2 – 0     6 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Boston University 2 – 3 – 0     3 – 7 – 0
Maine 2 – 4 – 0     3 – 7 – 0
Vermont 1 – 5 – 0     3 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant
Rankings from AP Poll

Conference summaries

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See also: List of NCAA Division II football seasons
Conference Champions

Big Sky Conference – Boise State
Far Western Football Conference – UC Davis and Cal State Chico
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Northwood
Gulf South Conference – Troy State
Lone Star Conference – Abilene Christian
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – North Carolina Central
Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Southeast Missouri State
North Central Conference – North Dakota State and South Dakota
Ohio Valley Conference – Western Kentucky
Northern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota State–Moorhead
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II) – Bethune-Cookman
Southland Conference – Louisiana Tech
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Grambling State and Jackson State
Yankee Conference – Connecticut

Postseason

The 1973 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the first single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The inaugural edition had only eight teams. The championship game was held at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs defeated the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, 34-0, to win their first national title.[2]

First round Semifinals Championship
                 
Grambling State 17
Delaware 8
Grambling State 20
Western Kentucky 28
Western Kentucky 25
Lehigh 16
Western Kentucky 0
Louisiana Tech 34
Louisiana Tech 18
Western Illinois 13
Louisiana Tech 38
Boise State 34
Boise State 53
South Dakota 10

See also

References

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