1993 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) championship game, see 1993 Sugar Bowl.

1993 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
I-AA National Championship Game
Youngstown State Penguins Marshall Thundering Herd
(12–2) (11–3)
Independent SoCon
17 5
Head coach: 
Jim Tressel		 Head coach: 
Jim Donnan
TSNSeed
7–
TSNSeed
9–
1234 Total
Youngstown State 17000 17
Marshall 0032 5
DateDecember 18, 1993
Season1993
StadiumMarshall University Stadium
LocationHuntington, West Virginia
FavoriteMarshall by 2[1]
RefereeSteve Newman (Gateway)[2]
Attendance29,218[3]
United States TV coverage
NetworkCBS Sports
AnnouncersSean McDonough (play-by-play), Dan Jiggetts (color), Jim Gray (sideline)[4]
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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The 1993 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Youngstown State Penguins and the Marshall Thundering Herd. The game was played on December 18, 1993, at Marshall University Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. The culminating game of the 1993 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Youngstown State, 17–5.[5] This was the third consecutive season that these two teams met in the championship game.

  1. ^ "Odds". The Tampa Tribune. December 18, 1993. p. 20. Retrieved April 12, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "1-AA National Championship 1993 Youngstown State". November 29, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2019 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NewarkBox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cobourn, Tom (December 17, 1993). "I-AA final has familiar look". The News Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. p. D6. Retrieved April 13, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Reed, William F. (December 27, 1993). "Third Time Around". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 13, 2019 – via SI.com.