- Source: 2024 NCAA Division III football season
The 2024 NCAA Division III football season is the component of the 2024 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States. The regular season began on September 1 and will end on November 16. This is the 51st season that the NCAA has sponsored a Division III championship.
Cortland is the defending national champion.
The playoffs were expanded from 32 from last season to 40 teams.
The season's playoffs will be played between November 23 and January 5, 2025, culminating in the national championship—also known as the Stagg Bowl. The game was initially set for Turner Stadium in Humble, Texas, but was later moved to Shell Energy Stadium in Houston. The move also makes the 2024 championship game the first since 2004 to be played on a grass field.
Conference changes and new programs
= Membership changes
=Other headlines
April 18 – The NCAA D-III Management Council announced that they would support an expansion of the playoff bracket from 32 teams to 40 effective for this season. The amount of automatic qualifier bids will remain unchanged, but the amount of available at-large bids will increase from 4 to 12.
August 1 – The Commonwealth Coast Conference announced that it would be rebranding to the Conference of New England, effective for the 2024 season.
Conference standings
Rankings
Postseason
= Teams
== Bracket
=* - Host team
= Bowl games
=Division III has 13 bowl games, featuring teams that did not qualify for the Division III postseason tournament; this is the same number of games contested in 2023 season, but features the addition of the Fusion Bowl, two bowls organized by NIL company Opendorse, and the subtraction of the ECAC Lynah Bowl and the New England Bowl series.
* - Host team
Coaching changes
= Preseason and in-season
=This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2024, and will include any changes announced after a team's last regularly scheduled games but before its playoff games.
= End of season
=This list includes coaching changes announced during the season that did not take effect until the end of the season.
See also
2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season
2024 NCAA Division II football season
2024 NAIA football season
2024 U Sports football season
References
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- Tim Tebow
- Daftar episode SpongeBob SquarePants
- LeBron James
- 2024 NCAA Division III football season
- 2024 NCAA Division III football rankings
- NCAA Division III football championship
- 2024 NCAA Division II football season
- 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season
- 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
- List of NCAA Division III football programs
- 2023 NCAA Division III football season
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
- 1973 NCAA Division III football season
