1980 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game

This article is about the Division I-AA (now FCS) championship game. For the Division I-A (now FBS) champions, see 1980 Georgia Bulldogs football team.

1980 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
I-AA National Championship Game
Camellia Bowl
Boise State Broncos Eastern Kentucky Colonels
(9–3) (10–2)
Big Sky Ohio Valley
31 29
Head coach: 
Jim Criner		 Head coach: 
Roy Kidd
AP
7
AP
3
1234 Total
Boise State 014107 31
Eastern Kentucky 37613 29
DateDecember 20, 1980
Season1980
StadiumHughes Stadium
LocationSacramento, California
Attendance8,157[1]
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC Sports[2]
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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The 1980 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and the Boise State Broncos. The game was played on December 20, 1980, at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. The culminating game of the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Boise State, 31–29.[3][4][5]

The game was also known as the Camellia Bowl,[2] a name that had been used starting in 1961 for various NAIA and NCAA playoff games held in Sacramento. The Colonels, defending champions from 1979, became the first program to play in a second I-AA title game.

  1. ^ "Division I Championship" (PDF). NCAA. 2013. p. 14. Retrieved May 11, 2019 – via ncaa.org.
  2. ^ a b "The Big Sky is high on Boise". Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, Montana. December 18, 1980. p. 1-C. Retrieved May 12, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Edge was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Broncos squeak by Colonels, take title". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). December 21, 1980. p. B2.
  5. ^ "Boise gets title". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. December 22, 1980. p. 28.