1977 NCAA Division II football season

1977 NCAA Division II football season
Regular season	August – November 1977
Playoffs	November 26 – December 10, 1977
National Championship	Pioneer Bowl Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX
Champion	Lehigh
← 1976 Division II football season 1978 →

1977 Big Sky football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boise State $	6	–	0	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
Northern Arizona ^	5	–	1	–	0			9	–	3	–	0
Montana State	3	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Weber State	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Idaho State	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
Idaho	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
Montana	1	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division II playoff participant Boise State concluded its regular season after the Div. II playoffs started; runner-up Northern Arizona was awarded playoff bid.

1977 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cal Poly $	2	–	0	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Cal State Northridge	1	–	1	–	0			7	–	3	–	1
Cal Poly Pomona	0	–	2	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1977 Far Western Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
UC Davis $^	5	–	0	–	0			11	–	1	–	0
Chico State	3	–	1	–	1			6	–	2	–	1
Cal State Hayward	2	–	2	–	1			6	–	3	–	1
San Francisco State	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Humboldt State	1	–	3	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
Sacramento State	0	–	4	–	1			0	–	10	–	1
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division II playoff participant

1977 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
SE Missouri State +	4	–	1	–	1			7	–	3	–	1
Missouri-Rolla +	4	–	1	–	1			7	–	3	–	1
NE Missouri State	4	–	2	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
SW Missouri State	3	–	2	–	1			6	–	3	–	1
NW Missouri State	2	–	3	–	1			5	–	5	–	1
Central Missouri State	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Lincoln (MO)	0	–	6	–	0			1	–	10	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions ^ – Division II playoff participant

1977 Yankee Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
UMass $		5	–	0					8	–	3
Rhode Island		4	–	1					6	–	5
New Hampshire		3	–	2					8	–	2
Boston University		1	–	4					3	–	7
Maine		1	–	4					3	–	7
Connecticut		1	–	4					1	–	10
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1977 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs
Teams	8
Finals Site	Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX
Champions	Lehigh 1st title 1st championship game 3 tournaments
Runner-Up	Jacksonville State 1st championship game 1 tournaments
Semifinalists	UC Davis 1 tournaments North Dakota State 2 tournaments
Winning Coach	John Whitehead 1st championship

The 1977 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1977 and concluded with the championship game on December 10 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Lehigh Engineers defeated the Jacksonville State Gamecocks 33–0 in the Pioneer Bowl to win their first Division II national title.

This was the last season prior to the creation of Division I-AA, now Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), which debuted in 1978.

Big Sky Conference – Boise State
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Winston-Salem State
Far Western Football Conference – UC Davis
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Grand Valley State
Gulf South Conference – Jacksonville State
Lone Star Conference – Abilene Christian and Texas A&I
Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Missouri–Rolla and Southeast Missouri State
North Central Conference – North Dakota State
Northern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota–Morris
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Clarion
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Western State
South Atlantic Conference – Elon
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II) – Florida A&M
Yankee Conference – Massachusetts

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