| 1978 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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| I-AA National Championship Game Pioneer Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 16, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Memorial Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Wichita Falls, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 13,604[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ABC Sports | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bill Flemming (play-by-play), Frank Broyles (color)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1978 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the UMass Minutemen. The game was played on December 16, 1978, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The culminating game of the 1978 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Florida A&M, 35–28.[3]
This was the first season of I-AA play, and the first championship game for the newly formed division. The game was also known as the Pioneer Bowl,[4] a name that had been used starting in 1971 for various NCAA playoff games held in Wichita Falls.
- ^ "Division I Championship" (PDF). NCAA. 2013. p. 14. Retrieved May 11, 2019 – via ncaa.org.
- ^ Richardson, Brian (December 17, 1978). "ABC still owes the Rattlers one". Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee, Florida. p. 5D. Retrieved May 13, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "UMass Toppled in Bowl, 35‐28". The New York Times. AP. December 17, 1978. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ^ Climer, David (July 22, 1978). "I-AA Finals Set At Pioneer Bowl". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 20. Retrieved May 13, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
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