The 2014 NCAA Division III football season, play of

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in the United States organized by the

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at the

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level, was the most recent season of NCAA Division III football. The season began on September 4 and concluded on December 19 with title game of the

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. Wisconsin–Whitewater won their sixth Division III title with a 43–34 win over Mount Union at

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. This was the ninth time in ten seasons that Mount Union and Wisconsin–Whitewater met in the title game.

Conference changes and new programs

Conference standings

Conference summaries

Headlines

* October 18 **

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, head coach at Wisconsin–Whitewater, sets an all-divisions NCAA record for the fewest games required to reach 100 career wins, doing so in his 106th career game, a 52–3 blowout of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. The previous record was set by

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coach

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, who reached the 100-win mark in his 108th game at

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in 1921.

Postseason

Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, three conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the second year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013, was in the second year of the two-year grace period. Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 24 Pool A conferences contained 207 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-four schools were in Pool B, enough for two bids. The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.

Playoff bracket

* ''Home team'' † ''Overtime'' ''Winner''

References

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