1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1982 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 1982
Playoff
Duration	November 27–December 18
Championship site	Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX
Champion	Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Division I-AA football season
«1981 1983»

The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, began in August 1982 and concluded with the Dvision I-AA championship game on December 18 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens in the Pioneer Bowl, 17−14.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Conference changes and new programs

Before the 1982 season, three conferences, and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA:

Ivy League — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale
Southern Conference — Appalachian State, Chattanooga, East Tennessee State, Furman, Marshall, The Citadel, VMI, and Western Carolina
Southland Conference — Arkansas State, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, and Texas–Arlington
- Southwestern Louisiana, who had been a member of the Southland during the 1981 season, remained in Division I-A as an Independent.

School	1981 Conference	1982 Conference
Alabama State	D-II Independent	SWAC (I-AA)
Colgate	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Holy Cross	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Indiana State	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Richmond	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent
Western Kentucky	Ohio Valley	I-AA Independent
William & Mary	I-A Independent	I-AA Independent

Conference standings

1982 Big Sky football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#19 Montana $^	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	6	–	0
#11 Idaho ^	5	–	2	–	0	9	–	4	–	0
Montana State	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
#15 Boise State	4	–	3	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
Nevada	3	–	4	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Northern Arizona	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Weber State	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Idaho State	1	–	6	–	0	3	–	8	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Montana earned automatic berth and Idaho earned at-large berth in I-AA playoffs. Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA poll (released before championship playoffs)

Template:1982 Ivy League football standings

1982 Mid-Continent football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Eastern Illinois +	2	–	0	–	1	11	–	1	–	1
Northern Iowa +	2	–	0	–	1	4	–	6	–	1
Southwest Missouri State	1	–	2	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Western Illinois	0	–	3	–	0	2	–	8	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions

Template:1982 MEAC football standings

Template:1982 Ohio Valley football standings

1982 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Furman $^		6	–	1		9	–	3
Chattanooga		5	–	1		7	–	4
Western Carolina		4	–	2		6	–	5
The Citadel		3	–	4		5	–	6
Appalachian State		3	–	4		4	–	7
VMI		2	–	3		5	–	6
East Tennessee State		2	–	5		2	–	9
Marshall		1	–	6		3	–	7

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

1982 Southland Conference football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#2 Louisiana Tech $^	5	–	0	–	0	10	–	3	–	0
Northeast Louisiana	4	–	1	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
Arkansas State	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
McNeese State	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	1
Lamar	1	–	4	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Texas–Arlington	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
North Texas State	0	–	0	–	0	2	–	9	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll

Template:1982 SWAC football standings

1982 Yankee Conference football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Boston University +^	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Maine +	3	–	2	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Connecticut +	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
UMass +	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island	2	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
New Hampshire	1	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from NCAA I-AA Poll

1982 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Delaware ^		–		12	–	2	–	0
Tennessee State ^		–		10	–	1	–	1
Holy Cross		–		8	–	3	–	0
Colgate ^		–		8	–	4	–	0
James Madison		–		8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	3	–	0
Nicholls State		–		7	–	4	–	0
Northwestern State		–		6	–	5	–	0
Western Kentucky		–		5	–	5	–	0
SE Louisiana		–		4	–	7	–	0
Bucknell		–		4	–	6	–	0
Lehigh		–		4	–	6	–	0
William & Mary		–		3	–	8	–	0
Richmond		–		0	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

Conference champions

Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – Montana Ivy League – Dartmouth, Harvard, and Penn Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina State Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Kentucky Southern Conference – Furman Southland Conference – Louisiana Tech Southwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson State Yankee Conference – Boston University, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts

Postseason

NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

First Round
November 27
Campus Sites

Quarterfinals
December 4
Campus Sites

Semifinals
December 11
Campus Sites

Championship Game
December 18
Pioneer Bowl

Richmond, KY

Moscow, ID

Eastern Kentucky

Idaho

Richmond, KY

Idaho

Montana

Eastern Kentucky

Nashville, TN

Charleston, IL

Tennessee State

Tennessee State

Eastern Illinois

Wichita Falls, TX – Memorial Stadium

Eastern Illinois

Jackson State

Eastern Kentucky

Ruston, LA

Greenville, SC

Delaware

Louisiana Tech

Furman

Ruston, LA

South Carolina State

South Carolina State

Louisiana Tech

Newark, DE

Hamilton, NY

Delaware

Colgate

Colgate

Boston U.

References

↑ "1982 NCAA Division I Football Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
↑ "Breaks seal Colonels' win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 19, 1982. p. 10F.
↑ "E. Kentucky 17, Delaware 14". Beaver County Times. (Pennsylvania). December 19, 1982. p. C14.

1982 NCAA Division I-AA football playoff participants

Colgate Boston U Delaware Eastern Illinois Eastern Kentucky Furman Idaho Jackson State Louisiana Tech Montana South Carolina State Tennessee State

Champion – Eastern Kentucky Colonels

NCAA football seasons

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