1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1982 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 1982
Playoff
Duration	November 27–December 18
Championship site	Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX
Champion	Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Division I-AA football season
«1981 1983»

1982 Big Sky football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#19 Montana $^	5	–	2	–	0			6	–	6	–	0
#11 Idaho ^	5	–	2	–	0			9	–	4	–	0
Montana State	5	–	2	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
#15 Boise State	4	–	3	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
Nevada	3	–	4	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Northern Arizona	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
Weber State	2	–	5	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
Idaho State	1	–	6	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Montana earned automatic berth and Idaho earned at-large berth in I-AA playoffs. Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA poll (released before championship playoffs)

1982 Ivy League football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard $	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Pennsylvania $	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth $	5	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Princeton	3	–	4	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Yale	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Brown	3	–	4	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Cornell	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Columbia	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA poll (released before championship playoffs)

1982 Mid-Continent football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Eastern Illinois +	2	–	0	–	1			11	–	1	–	1
Northern Iowa +	2	–	0	–	1			4	–	6	–	1
Southwest Missouri State	1	–	2	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Western Illinois	0	–	3	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

1982 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Furman $^		6	–	1					9	–	3
Chattanooga		5	–	1					7	–	4
Western Carolina		4	–	2					6	–	5
The Citadel		3	–	4					5	–	6
Appalachian State		3	–	4					4	–	7
VMI		2	–	3					5	–	6
East Tennessee State		2	–	5					2	–	9
Marshall		1	–	6					3	–	7
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

1982 Southland Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#2 Louisiana Tech $^	5	–	0	–	0			10	–	3	–	0
Northeast Louisiana	4	–	1	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
Arkansas State	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
McNeese State	2	–	3	–	0			4	–	6	–	1
Lamar	1	–	4	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
Texas–Arlington	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
North Texas State	0	–	0	–	0			2	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll

1982 Yankee Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boston University +^	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Maine +	3	–	2	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
Connecticut +	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
UMass +	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island	2	–	3	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
New Hampshire	1	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from NCAA I-AA Poll

1982 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Delaware ^			–					12	–	2	–	0
Tennessee State ^			–					10	–	1	–	1
Holy Cross			–					8	–	3	–	0
Colgate ^			–					8	–	4	–	0
James Madison			–					8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Nicholls State			–					7	–	4	–	0
Northwestern State			–					6	–	5	–	0
Western Kentucky			–					5	–	5	–	0
SE Louisiana			–					4	–	7	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	6	–	0
William & Mary			–					3	–	8	–	0
Richmond			–					0	–	10	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant

The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, began in August 1982 and concluded with the Dvision I-AA championship game on December 18 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens in the Pioneer Bowl, 17−14.

Before the 1982 season, three conferences, and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA:

Big Sky Conference – Montana
Ivy League – Dartmouth, Harvard, and Penn
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina State
Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Kentucky
Southern Conference – Furman
Southland Conference – Louisiana Tech
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Jackson State
Yankee Conference – Boston University, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts

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