1985 NCAA Division III football season

1985 NCAA Division III football season
Regular season	August – November 1985
Playoffs	November – December 1985
National championship	Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, AL
Champions	Augustana (IL) Vikings
Division III football seasons « 1984 1986 »

The 1985 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1985, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1985 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won the third of their four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Ithaca Bombers by a final score of 20−7.

Conference changes and new programs

School	1984 Conference	1985 Conference
Fordham	D-III Independent	Liberty

Conference champions

See also: List of NCAA Division III football seasons

Conference champions

Centennial Conference – Gettysburg College Athletic Conference – Centre and Rhodes College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) Independent College Athletic Conference – Ithaca Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Lycoming Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Coe Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Plymouth State and Western Connecticut State New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State North Coast Athletic Conference – Denison Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Emory & Henry, Randolph-Macon, and Washington & Lee Presidents' Athletic Conference – Carnegie Mellon Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin and Sul Ross State Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Mount Senario Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–River Falls

Postseason

The 1985 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 13th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the eleventh year and first time since 1982. This was the first tournament to feature sixteen teams after expanding from the eight team model in place since 1973.

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket

	First Round Campus Sites					Quarterfinals Campus Sites					Semifinals Campus Sites					National Championship Game Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, Alabama
	Ithaca		13
	Union (NY)		12
						Ithaca		50
						Montclair State		28
	Montclair State		28
	Western Connecticut State		0
											Ithaca		34
											Gettysburg		0
	Salisbury State		35
	Carnegie Mellon		22
						Salisbury State		6
						Gettysburg		22
	Gettysburg		14
	Lycoming		10
																Ithaca		7
																Augustana (IL)		20
	Augustana (IL)		26
	Albion		10
						Augustana (IL)		21
						Mount Union		14
	Mount Union		35
	Denison		3
											Augustana (IL)		14
											Central (IA)		7
	Central (IA)		27
	Coe		7
						Central (IA)		71
						Occidental		0
	Occidental		28
	Saint John's (MN)		10

See also

• 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season
• 1985 NCAA Division I-AA football season
• 1985 NCAA Division II football season