The 2022 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a college football game played on December 17, 2022, at McKinney ISD Stadium in

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. The game determined the national champion of

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen ...

for the 2022 season. The game was scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast by ESPNU. The game featured the two finalists of the 28-team playoff bracket, which began on November 19, 2022. The top-seeded

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from the

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(GLIAC) defeated the second seed Colorado Mines Orediggers from the

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(RMAC), 41–14. The win gave the Ferris football program its second national championship.

Teams

The participants of the 2022 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2022 Division II Playoffs, which began on November 19 with four 7-team

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to determine super region champions, who then qualified for the national semifinals.

National semifinals

Super region champions were reseeded 1 to 4 for the national semifinals.

Game summary

Statistics

References

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