1984 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 1984 BYU Cougars football team.

1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
I-AA National Championship Game
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Montana State Bobcats
(10–4) (11–2)
Southland Big Sky
6 19
Head coach: 
A. L. Williams		 Head coach: 
Dave Arnold
NCAASeed
9–
NCAASeed
2 (tie)3
1234 Total
Louisiana Tech 0006 6
Montana State 91000 19
DateDecember 15, 1984
Season1984
StadiumJohnson Hagood Stadium
LocationCharleston, South Carolina
RefereeCourtney Mauzy (ACC)[1]
Attendance9,125[2]
United States TV coverage
NetworkSatellite Program Network[3]
AnnouncersBill Flemming (play-by-play), Steve Davis (color)[1]
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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The 1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Montana State Bobcats and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. The game was played on December 15, 1984, at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The culminating game of the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Montana State, 19–6.[2]

The championship game was televised on the Satellite Program Network (SPN),[3] as the NCAA paid SPN to broadcast some playoff contests following a Supreme Court ruling (NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma) that halted the NCAA's practice of negotiating television contracts for its members.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference YouTube was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Smith, Bruce M. (December 16, 1984). "Montana State wins I-AA title". The News Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. AP. p. D3. Retrieved May 5, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b Geise, George (December 15, 1984). "Bobcats ready for I-AA championship shootout". Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, Montana. p. 1-B. Retrieved May 5, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Nance, Roscoe (December 1, 1984). "I-AA playoffs spell trouble M-O-N-E-Y". The Clarion-Ledger. Jackson, Mississippi. p. 2D. Retrieved April 22, 2019 – via newspapers.com.