NCAA.com | November 13, 2017

NCAA Division III Football Championship field announced

DIII Football: 2017 Selection Show

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Football Committee announced today the field of 32 teams for the 2017 NCAA Division III Football Championship. The committee selected teams based on conference results and competition within an institution's respective evaluation region.

Twenty-five conferences received automatic-qualifying berths. Two berths are reserved for true independents or teams that are members of a conference that do not receive automatic qualification. The remaining five berths were awarded to teams from either automatic qualifying conferences that did not win an automatic berth, the remaining true independent teams or teams in non-automatic qualifying conferences.

RELATED: Interactive bracket

The first round of the championship will be played November 18 at the host institution's campus or at an alternate site approved by the football committee. The Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the national championship game, will be played Friday, December 15, at Salem Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time.

Pool A Berths (25):

Automatic Bids By Conference
Conference	School
Centennial Conference	Johns Hopkins University
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin	North Central College
Commonwealth Coast Football	Western New England University
Eastern Collegiate Football Conference	Husson University
Empire 8	College at Brockport, State University of New York
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	Franklin College
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Wartburg College
Liberty League	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	Plymouth State University
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Trine University
Middle Atlantic Conference	Delaware Valley University
Midwest Conference	Monmouth College (Illinois)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
New Jersey Athletic Conference	Wesley College
North Coast Athletic Conference	Wittenberg University
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	Lakeland University
Northwest Conference	Linfield College
Ohio Athletic Conference	University of Mount Union
Old Dominion Athletic Conference	Washington and Lee University
Presidents' Athletic Conference	Washington and Jefferson College
Southern Athletic Association	Berry College
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Chapman University
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	Eureka College
USA South Athletic Conference	Huntingdon College
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Pool B Berths (2):

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Springfield College

Pool C Berths (5):

Case Western Reserve University
Frostburg State University
Hardin-Simmons University
Illinois Wesleyan University
St. John's University (Minnesota)

The Division III Football Committee also announced the following 16 regional sites:

Belton, Texas – Chapman vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor
McMinnville, Oregon – Hardin-Simmons vs. Linfield
Mount Berry, Georgia – Huntingdon College vs. Berry
Naperville, Illinois – Saint John’s (Minnesota) vs. North Central
Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania – Western New England vs. Delaware Valley
Springfield, Massachusetts – Husson vs. Springfield
Alliance, Ohio – Washington and Lee vs. Mount Union
Brockport, New York – Plymouth State vs. College at Brockport
St. Paul, Minnesota – Eureka vs. St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Bloomington, Illinos – Case Western Reserve vs. Illinois Wesleyan
Washington, Pennsylvania – Johns Hopkins vs. Washington & Jefferson
Oshkosh, Wisconsin – Lakeland vs Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Springfield, Ohio – Frostburg State vs. Wittenberg
Dover, Delaware – Rensselaer vs. Wesley
Waverly, Iowa – Franklin vs. Wartburg
Angola, Indiana – Monmouth (Illinois) vs. Trine

All games start at noon local time.

In the 2016 championship, Mary Hardin-Baylor defeated Wisconsin-Oshkosh 10-7.