The NCAA Division III Football Committee announced Sunday the field of 40 teams for the 2025 NCAA Division III Football Championship. Teams were selected based on conference results and NCAA Power Index (NPI).

The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association will send two football teams - Alma and Hope - into the NCAA Division III football playoffs in 2025.

Both football teams received invitations to play in the NCAA playoffs, Northwood in Division II and Alma in Division III. It is Northwood’s first playoff appearance since 2006, while Alma went 2-1 in the 2023 playoffs.

Randolph-Macon football earned an automatic NCAA playoff bid and will face ninth-ranked John Carroll on Nov. 29 in the second round of Division III playoffs.

Ruisch, a Parkland High School graduate, is part of a Susquehanna senior class making a fourth straight appearance in the NCAA Division III playoffs after winning a conference championship.

History has been made for HBCU football at the NCAA Division II level. For the first time ever, five HBCUs have earned spots in the NCAA Division II Football Championship field, a groundbreaking moment announced on Saturday night that underscores just how far the CIAA and SIAC have come on the national stage.

The Golden Bears received an automatic bid after winning the PSAC championship for the third straight season. They will host Northeast 10 Conference champion Bentley in a first round game at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Kutztown-Bentley winner will face either Indiana (Pa.) or Assumption in the second round on November 29.

Kutztown University will enter the NCAA Division II football playoffs as the third ranked team in the nation after the latest AFCA Division II Coaches Poll was released on Monday.

The Salisbury University Football team earned an at-large berth in the 2025 NCAA Division III Playoffs, and will host a second round game next week.

The NCAA put Michigan State’s football program on three years of probation and penalized the school $30,000 plus 1.5% of the team’s budget after agreeing former staff members Saeed Khalif and Brandon Jordan under coach Mel Tucker broke rules regarding recruiting inducements and benefits,

The NCAA Division II Football Committee announced today the field of 32 teams for the 2025 NCAA Division II Football Championship.

No. 9 Notre Dame is set to redshirt a key wide receiver from the 2024 College Football Playoff run after overcoming an injury.