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1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1996 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration August – November 1996
Playoff
Duration November 30 – December 21, 1996
Championship site Joan C. Edwards Stadium, Huntington, WV
Champion Marshall Thundering Herd
Payton Award Archie AmersonRB (Northern Arizona)
Buchanan Award Dexter CoakleyLB (Appalachian State)
Division I-AA football season
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1996 Ivy League football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Dartmouth $   7 0         10 0  
Columbia   5 2         8 2  
Brown   4 3         5 5  
Cornell   4 3         4 6  
Penn   3 4         5 5  
Harvard   2 5         4 6  
Princeton   2 5         3 7  
Yale   1 6         2 8  
  • $ – Conference champion
1996 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#1 Marshall $^   8 0         15 0  
#7 East Tennessee State ^   7 1         10 3  
#9 Furman ^   6 2         9 4  
#22 Appalachian State   5 3         7 4  
The Citadel   3 5         4 7  
Georgia Southern   2 6         4 7  
VMI   2 6         3 8  
Chattanooga   2 6         3 8  
Western Carolina   1 7         4 7  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll
1996 Southland Football League standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#4 Troy State $^ 5 1 0     12 2 0
#15 Nicholls State ^ 4 2 0     8 4 0
#21 Stephen F. Austin 3 3 0     7 4 0
Northwestern State 3 3 0     6 5 0
Sam Houston State 3 3 0     4 7 0
Southwest Texas State 2 4 0     5 6 0
McNeese State 1 5 0     3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
  • Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll
1996 Yankee Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
New England
#18 New Hampshire x   6 2         8 3  
Maine   5 3         7 4  
UMass   4 4         6 5  
Connecticut   3 5         4 6  
Rhode Island   2 6         4 6  
Boston University   0 8         1 10  
Mid-Atlantic
#7 William & Mary x$^   7 1         10 3  
#14 Villanova ^   6 2         8 4  
#11 Delaware ^   6 2         8 4  
#23 James Madison   5 3         7 4  
Northeastern   3 5         6 5  
Richmond   1 7         2 9  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

The 1996 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 1996, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 21, 1996, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. The Marshall Thundering Herd won their second I-AA championship, defeating the defending national champion Montana Grizzlies by a final score of 49−29

Big Sky Conference – Montana
Gateway Football Conference – Northern Iowa
Ivy League – Dartmouth
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – Duquesne
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Florida A&M
Northeast ConferenceMonmouth and Robert Morris
Ohio Valley Conference – Murray State
Patriot League – Bucknell
Pioneer Football League – Dayton
Southern Conference – Marshall
Southland Football League – Troy State
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson State
Yankee Conference – William & Mary


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