2001 NCAA Division III football season

2001 NCAA Division III football season
Regular season	August – November 2001
Playoffs	November – December 2001
National championship	Salem Football Stadium Salem, VA
Champions	Mount Union (6)
Gagliardi Trophy	Chuck Moore (RB), Mount Union
Division III football seasons « 2000 2002 »

The 2001 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 2001, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2001 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Mount Union Purple Raiders won their sixth, and second consecutive, Division III championship by defeating the Bridgewater (VA) Eagles, 30−27.

The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Chuck Moore, running back from Mount Union.

Conference champions

See also: List of NCAA Division III football seasons

Conference champions

American Southwest Conference – Hardin–Simmons Atlantic Central Football Conference – Wesley Centennial Conference – McDaniel and Muhlenberg College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Augustana (IL) and Illinois Wesleyan Dixie Intercollegiate Football Conference – Christopher Newport and Ferrum Freedom Football Conference – Plymouth State and Western Connecticut State Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Anderson and Defiance Illini-Badger Football Conference – MacMurray Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Central (IA) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Albion Middle Atlantic Conference – Widener Midwest Conference – Ripon and St. Norbert Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Bethel (MN) and Saint John's (MN) New England Football Conference – Westfield State (Bogan Division), Nichols (Boyd Division) Championship Game: Westfield State 12, Nichols 0 New England Small College Athletic Conference – Williams New Jersey Athletic Conference – Rowan North Coast Athletic Conference – Wittenberg Northwest Conference – Linfield, Pacific Lutheran, and Whitworth Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Bridgewater Presidents' Athletic Conference – Washington & Jefferson Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Occidental Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – Trinity (TX) University Athletic Association – Washington–Saint Louis Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Northwestern–St. Paul Upstate Collegiate Athletic Conference – RPI Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–Eau Claire and Wisconsin–Stevens Point

Postseason

The 2001 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 29th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the ninth time. This was the third bracket to feature 28 teams since last expanding in 1999.

Playoff bracket

	First Round Campus Sites				Second Round Campus Sites				Quarterfinals Campus Sites				Semifinals Campus Sites				National Championship Game Salem Football Stadium Salem, Virginia
					Mount Union	32
	Augustana (IL)	54			Augustana (IL)	7
	Defiance	14							Mount Union	49
	Wittenberg	38*							Wittenberg	21
	Hardin–Simmons	35			Wittenberg	41
	Thomas More	34			Thomas More	0
	MacMurray	30											Mount Union	35
													Saint John's (MN)	14
					Central (IA)	21
	Pacific Lutheran	27*			Pacific Lutheran	27*
	Whitworth	26							Pacific Lutheran	6
	Saint John's (MN)	27							Saint John's (MN)	31
	St. Norbert	20			Saint John's (MN)	9
	UW–Stevens Point	37			UW–Stevens Point	7
	Bethel (MN)	27															Mount Union	30
																	Bridgewater (VA)	27
					RPI	10
	Ithaca	35			Ithaca	27
	Montclair State	23							Ithaca	0
	Rowan	40							Rowan	48
	Brockport	17			Rowan	43
	West. Conn. State	8			West. Conn. State	14
	Westfield State	7											Rowan	24
													Bridgewater (VA)	29
					Bridgewater (VA)	41
	Trinity (TX)	30			Trinity (TX)	37
	Mary Hardin–Baylor	6							Bridgewater (VA)	57
	Widener	56							Widener	32
	Christopher Newport	7			Widener	46
	Wash. & Jefferson	24			Wash. & Jefferson	30
	McDaniel	21

* Overtime

See also

• 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season
• 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season
• 2001 NCAA Division II football season