1998 NCAA Division I-AA football season

1998 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 1998
Playoff
Duration	November 28 – December 19, 1998
Championship site	Finley Stadium, Chattanooga, TN
Champion	UMass Minutemen
Payton Award	Jerry Azumah – RB (New Hampshire)
Buchanan Award	James Milton – LB (Western Illinois)
Division I-AA football season
«1997 1999»

1998 Atlantic 10 Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
New England
#8 Connecticut x^		6	–	2		10	–	3
#12 UMass x^		6	–	2		12	–	3
Maine		3	–	5		6	–	5
New Hampshire		3	–	5		4	–	7
Rhode Island		2	–	6		3	–	8
Mid-Atlantic
#5 Richmond x$^		7	–	1		9	–	3
#22 Delaware		4	–	4		7	–	4
Villanova		4	–	4		6	–	5
#16 William & Mary		4	–	4		7	–	4
Northeastern		3	–	5		5	–	6
James Madison		2	–	6		3	–	8

$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I–AA Poll

1998 Ivy League football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Penn $		6	–	1		8	–	2
Brown		5	–	2		7	–	3
Yale		5	–	2		6	–	4
Princeton		4	–	3		5	–	5
Columbia		3	–	4		4	–	6
Harvard		3	–	4		4	–	6
Cornell		1	–	6		4	–	6
Dartmouth		1	–	6		2	–	8

$ – Conference champion

1998 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
#2 Georgia Southern $^		8	–	0		14	–	1
#6 Appalachian State ^		6	–	2		10	–	3
Western Carolina		5	–	3		6	–	5
Chattanooga		4	–	4		5	–	6
The Citadel		4	–	4		5	–	6
East Tennessee State		3	–	5		4	–	7
Wofford		3	–	5		4	–	7
Furman		3	–	5		5	–	6
VMI		0	–	8		1	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

1998 Southland Football League standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
#3 Northwestern State $^		6	–	1		11	–	3
# 8 McNeese State ^		5	–	2		9	–	3
#13 Troy State ^		5	–	2		8	–	4
Jacksonville State		4	–	3		7	–	4
Nicholls State		3	–	4		4	–	7
Southwest Texas State		2	–	5		4	–	7
Stephen F. Austin		2	–	5		3	–	8
Sam Houston State		1	–	6		3	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll

The 1998 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level, began in August 1998, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 19, 1998, at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The UMass Minutemen won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Georgia Southern Eagles by a final score of 55−43

Atlantic 10 Conference – Richmond
Big Sky Conference – Montana
Gateway Football Conference – Western Illinois
Ivy League – Penn
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – Fairfield and Georgetown
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Florida A&M and Hampton
Northeast Conference – Monmouth and Robert Morris
Ohio Valley Conference – Tennessee State
Patriot League – Lehigh
Pioneer Football League – Drake
Southern Conference – Georgia Southern
Southland Football League – Northwestern State
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Southern