North Central (IL) wins the DIII football championship
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The North Central (IL) Cardinals won the 2024 NCAA DIII football championship, beating Mount Union 41-25 for the program’s second national title in the last three years. The win serves as redemption for the Cardinals, who lost last year’s title game to Cortland, and is the program’s third-ever national championship.
Here’s everything you need to know for the 2024 NCAA DIII football championship that features 40 teams battling it out in a single-elimination bracket.
The 40-team championship bracket was revealed on Sunday, Nov. 17. Twenty-eight teams earned automatic qualification, while the remaining teams were selected at large by the DIII Football Committee. The tournament began with the first round on Saturday, Nov. 23.
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All games listed in Eastern Time
First round: Saturday, Nov. 23
Second round: Saturday, Nov. 30
Third round: Saturday, Dec. 7
Quarterfinals: Saturday, Dec. 14
Semifinals: Saturday, Dec. 21
National championship: Sunday, Jan. 5
Cortland won its first-ever national title last season, defeating North Central (IL), 38-37, and stopping the Cardinals from winning back-to-back championships for the first time in school history. No program has won two straight titles since Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2013 and 2014. Here’s every DIII football champion, runner-up and score from the past decade:
➡️ Click here for a full list of every champion since 1973
