The North Central (IL) Cardinals won the 2024 NCAA DIII football championship, beating Mount Union 41-25 for the program’s second national title in the last three years. The win serves as redemption for the Cardinals, who lost last year’s title game to Cortland, and is the program’s third-ever national championship.
Here’s everything you want to know about the 2024 NCAA DIII Football Championship, which features 40 groups competing in a single-elimination bracket.
The 40-team championship bracket was revealed on Sunday, November 17. Twenty-eight groups earned automatic qualification, while the remaining groups were decided at large through the DIII football committee. The tournament began with the first round on Saturday, November 23.
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All games indexed in Eastern Time
First round: Saturday, Nov. 23
Second round: Saturday, November 30
Third round: Saturday, Dec. 7
Quarterfinals: Saturday, Dec. 14
Semifinals: Saturday, December 21
National Championship: Sunday, January 5
Cortland earned his first national name last season, defeating North Central (IL), 38-37, and preventing the Cardinals from winning back-to-back championships for the first time in history. No program has gained back-to-back names since Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2013 and 2014. Here are all the champions, runners-up, and DIII football scores from the past decade:
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