1998 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 1998 Orange Bowl.

1998 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
I-AA National Championship Game
Georgia Southern Eagles UMass Minutemen
(14–0) (11–3)
SoCon Atlantic 10
43 55
Head coach: 
Paul Johnson		 Head coach: 
Mark Whipple
TSNSeed
11
TSNSeed
1211
1234 Total
Georgia Southern 7141210 43
UMass 2117017 55
DateDecember 19, 1998
Season1998
StadiumFinley Stadium
LocationChattanooga, Tennessee
RefereeJohn W. Keys (Big Sky)[1]
Attendance17,501[2]
United States TV coverage
NetworkESPN
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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The 1998 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Georgia Southern Eagles and the UMass Minutemen. The game was played on December 19, 1998, at Finley Stadium, home field of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The culminating game of the 1998 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by UMass, 55–43.[3]

  1. ^ "1998 NCAA Division I-AA Championship Game" (PDF). December 19, 1998. Retrieved February 20, 2019 – via amazonaws.com.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gatadb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "UMass Wins I-AA Championship". CBS News. December 19, 1998. Retrieved February 20, 2019.