1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1979 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 1979
Playoff
Duration	December 8–15, 1979
Championship site	Orlando Stadium, Orlando, FL
Champion	Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Division I-AA football season
«1978 1980»

The 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level, began in August 1979, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 15, 1979, at Orlando Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Lehigh Engineers by a final score of 30−7.^[1]

Conference changes and new programs

School	1978 Conference	1979 Conference
Bethune-Cookman	SIAC (II)	MEAC (I-AA)
East Tennessee State	Ohio Valley (I-AA)	Southern (I-A)
Florida A&M	SIAC (II)	MEAC (I-AA)
Morgan State	MEAC (I-AA)	D-II Independent
Nevada	I-AA Independent	Big Sky
North Carolina Central	MEAC (I-AA)	CIAA (D-II)

Conference standings

1979 Big Sky football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Boise State	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
Montana State $	6	–	1	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Nevada ^	5	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Northern Arizona	3	–	4	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Weber State	3	–	4	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Idaho	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Montana	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Idaho State	0	–	7	–	0	0	–	11	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Boise State was ineligible for title or I-AA playoffs; Montana State was conference champion and Nevada-Reno was selected for I-AA playoffs.

Template:1979 MEAC football standings

Template:1979 Ohio Valley football standings

Template:1979 SWAC football standings

1979 Yankee Conference football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
UMass +	4	–	1	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
#7 Boston University +	4	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	1
Connecticut	3	–	1	–	1	3	–	6	–	2
New Hampshire	2	–	2	–	1	5	–	4	–	2
Maine	1	–	4	–	0	1	–	9	–	1
Rhode Island	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	9	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from NCAA I-AA Poll

1979 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Lehigh ^		–		10	–	3	–	0
Portland State		–		6	–	5	–	0
Lafayette		–		5	–	3	–	2
Bucknell		–		3	–	6	–	0
Northwestern State		–		1	–	9	–	1

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

Conference champions

Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – Montana State Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Morgan State Ohio Valley Conference – Murray State Southwestern Athletic Conference – Alcorn State and Grambling State Yankee Conference – Boston University and Massachusetts

Postseason

NCAA Division I-AA Playoff bracket

Semifinals December 8 Campus Sites		Championship Game December 15 Orlando Stadium Orlando, FL


Lehigh	28

Murray State*	9
		Lehigh	7

		Eastern Kentucky	30
Nevada-Reno	30

Eastern Kentucky* (2OT)	33

* Denotes host institution

References

↑ "1979 NCAA Division I Football Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved December 20, 2013.

1979 NCAA Division I-AA football playoff participants

Eastern Kentucky Lehigh Murray State Nevada

Champion – Eastern Kentucky Colonels

NCAA football seasons

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