The 1992 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of
college football
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in the United States organized by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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at the
Division I-AA level, began on September 5, 1992, and concluded with the
1992 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 19, 1992, in
Huntington, West Virginia
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. The
Marshall Thundering Herd defeated the
Youngstown State Penguins
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by a score of 31–28. It was the second consecutive year that Marshall and Youngstown State faced off in the I-AA title game.
Notable changes
Prior to the season, the
Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, otherwise a women's sports league but sponsoring football as its only men's sport since the 1985 collapse of the football side of the
Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), merged into the MVC. The football league became the standalone Gateway Football Conference, later renamed as the
Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) in 2008.
Conference changes
Conference standings
Conference champions
This is a listing of conference champions.
Postseason
Only the top four teams in the field were seeded, and thus assured of home games in their first-round games. The site of the title game,
Marshall University Stadium
Joan C. Edwards Stadium, formerly Marshall University Stadium, is a football stadium located on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, United States. It can hold 38,227 spectators and includes twenty deluxe, indoor suites ...
, had been predetermined months before the playoffs began.
NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket
* ''Next to team name denotes host institution''
Source:
Final poll standings
References
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