2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season

2003 NCAA Division I-AA season
Duration	August – November 2003
Playoff
Duration	November 29 – December 19, 2003
Championship site	Finley Stadium, Chattanooga, TN
Champion	Delaware
Payton Award	Jamaal Branch – RB (Colgate)
Buchanan Award	Jared Allen – DE (Idaho State)
Division I-AA football season
«2002 2004»

2003 Atlantic 10 Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
#1 Delaware $^		8	–	1					15	–	1
#11 UMass $^		8	–	1					10	–	3
#20 Northeastern		6	–	3					8	–	4
#25 Villanova		5	–	4					7	–	4
Maine		4	–	4					6	–	5
William & Mary		4	–	4					5	–	5
James Madison		4	–	5					6	–	6
New Hampshire		3	–	6					5	–	7
Rhode Island		3	–	6					4	–	8
Hofstra		2	–	6					2	–	10
Richmond		1	–	8					2	–	9
+ – Conference co-champions ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

2003 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
#3 Wofford $^		8	–	0					12	–	2
Appalachian State		6	–	2					7	–	4
#24 Georgia Southern		5	–	3					7	–	4
Furman		4	–	4					6	–	5
The Citadel		4	–	4					6	–	6
Western Carolina		3	–	5					4	–	7
Chattanooga		3	–	5					3	–	9
East Tennessee State		2	–	6					5	–	7
Elon		1	–	7					2	–	10
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

2003 Ivy League football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Penn $		7	–	0					10	–	0
Harvard		4	–	3					7	–	3
Brown		4	–	3					5	–	5
Yale		4	–	3					6	–	4
Dartmouth		4	–	3					5	–	5
Columbia		3	–	4					4	–	6
Princeton		2	–	5					2	–	8
Cornell		0	–	7					1	–	9
$ – Conference champion

2003 Southland Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#8 McNeese State $^	5	–	0	–	0			10	–	2	–	0
Stephen F. Austin	4	–	1	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
Northwestern State	2	–	3	–	0			7	–	5	–	0
Texas State	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	7	–	0
Sam Houston State	2	–	3	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
Nicholls State	0	–	5	–	0			0	–	11	–	0
$ – Conference champion ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant Ranking is from the Sports Network Poll

The 2003 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 2003, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 19, 2003, at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Colgate Raiders by a final score of 40−0

Atlantic 10 Conference – Delaware and Massachusetts
Big Sky Conference – Montana, Montana State, and Northern Arizona
Big South Conference – Gardner-Webb
Gateway Football Conference – Northern Iowa and Southern Illinois
Ivy League – Penn
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – Duquesne
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – North Carolina A&T
Northeast Conference – Albany (NY) and Monmouth
Ohio Valley Conference – Jacksonville State
Patriot League – Colgate
Pioneer Football League – Valparaiso
Southern Conference – Wofford
Southland Conference – McNeese State
Southwestern Athletic Conference – Southern

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