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1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1981 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration August – November 1981
Playoff
Duration December 5–19, 1981
Championship site Memorial Stadium
Wichita Falls, TX
Champion Idaho State Bengals
Division I-AA football season
«1980
1982»
1981 Big Sky football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#2 Idaho State $^ 6 1 0     12 1 0
#5 Boise State ^ 6 1 0     10 3 0
Montana 5 2 0     7 3 0
Nevada 4 3 0     7 4 0
Weber State 4 3 0     7 4 0
Northern Arizona 2 5 0     4 7 0
Montana State 1 6 0     3 7 0
Idaho 0 7 0     3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
  • Idaho State earned automatic berth and
    Boise State earned at-large berth in I-AA playoffs.
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA poll (released before championship playoffs)
1981 Yankee Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Rhode Island +^ 4 1 0     6 6 0
UMass + 4 1 0     6 3 0
Boston University 3 2 0     6 5 0
#10 New Hampshire 2 3 0     7 3 0
Connecticut 1 4 0     4 7 0
Maine 1 4 0     3 7 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from NCAA I-AA Poll
1981 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Delaware ^         9 3 0
Lafayette         9 2 0
Tennessee State ^         9 3 0
SE Louisiana         8 3 0
Lehigh         8 3 0
Nicholls State         5 5 1
Northwestern State         4 6 0
Bucknell         4 6 0
James Madison         3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

The 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, began in August 1981 and concluded with the Division I-AA championship game on December 19 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Idaho State Bengals won their only I-AA championship, defeating the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the Pioneer Bowl, 34−23.

Big Sky Conference – Idaho State
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina State
Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Kentucky
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson State
Yankee Conference – Massachusetts and Rhode Island

* Denotes host institution


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