1995 NAIA Division I football season

American college football season

The 1995 NAIA Division I football season was the 40th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA, was the 26th season of play of the NAIA's top division for football.

The season was played from August to November 1995 and culminated in the 1995 NAIA Champion Bowl playoffs and the 1995 NAIA Champion Bowl, played this year on December 2, 1995 at Doc Wadley Stadium in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on the campus of Northeastern State University.[1]

The Central State Marauders defeated the Northeastern State Redmen in the Champion Bowl, 37–7, to win their third NAIA national title.[2] It was the RiverHawks' second consecutive loss in the championship game and the Marauders' third title in six seasons.

Conference changes and new programs

Conference changes

  • The Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference disbanded before the start of the season, with its football members departing for the NCAA Division II's Gulf South Conference and Lone Star Conference.
  • This was the final season that the NAIA officially recognized a football champion from the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference.[3] The OIC, the second incarnation of a football conference with the same name, would complete one final season in 1996 before disbanding.
Team 1994 conference 1995 conference
Arkansas–Monticello Arkansas (NAIA) Gulf South (NCAA Division II)
Arkansas Tech Arkansas (NAIA) Gulf South (NCAA Division II)
Harding Arkansas (NAIA) Lone Star (NCAA Division II)
Ouachita Baptist Arkansas (NAIA) Lone Star (NCAA Division II)
Southern Arkansas Arkansas (NAIA) Gulf South (NCAA Division II)

Conference standings

1995 Frontier Conference football standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Western Montana $^ 6 – 0 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
No. 7 Carroll (MT) 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Montana Tech 2 – 4 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Rocky Mountain 0 – 6 – 0 0 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NAIA Division I playoff participant
Rankings from NAIA Division I poll
1995 Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference football standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Northeastern State $^ 4 – 1 – 0 7 – 5 – 0
No. 5 SE Oklahoma State 3 – 2 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
No. 8 NW Oklahoma State 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
No. 9 SW Oklahoma State 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
No. T–10 Langston 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
No. T–10 East Central 1 – 4 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
Panhandle State * 0 – 0 – 0 1 – 9 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – NAIA Division I playoff participant
    * – ineligible for conference title
Rankings from NAIA Division I poll
1995 NAIA Division I independents football records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Central State (OH) ^   –   10 – 1 – 0
No. 3 Arkansas–Pine Bluff ^   –   6 – 4 – 0
No. 6 Westmar   –   6 – 4 – 0
Harding   –   4 – 6 – 0
Ouachita Baptist   –   2 – 7 – 0
  • ^ – NAIA Division I playoff participant
Rankings from NAIA Division I poll

Conference champions

Conference Champion Record
Frontier Montana Western 6–0
Oklahoma Northeastern State 4–1

Postseason

Semifinals
November 18, 1995
Campus sites 		1995 Champion Bowl
December 2, 1995
Tahlequah, OK
      
  Central State (OH)* 49
  Montana Western 21
  Central State (OH) 37
  Northeastern State* 7
  Northeastern State 17
  Arkansas–Pine Bluff* 14

See also

References

  1. ^ "NAIA Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. pp. 4–11. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 15, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  2. ^ "1995 Division I NAIA Football Playoffs". JonFMorse.com. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  3. ^ "NAIA Football Regular Season Records" (PDF). NAIA. pp. 20–23. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
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