The 2019 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason

college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ...

game that determined a national champion in

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is the intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environment ...

for the 2019 season. It was played at McKinney ISD Stadium in

McKinney, Texas McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano, Texas, Plano and Frisco, Texas, Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about ...

, on December 21, 2019, with kickoff at 3:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m. local CST), and television coverage on

ESPNU ESPNU is an American multinational digital cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns the remain ...

Teams

The participants of the 2019 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2019 Division II Playoffs, which began with four 7-team

brackets A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their n ...

to determine super region champions, who then qualified for the national semifinals. The game featured the winners of those national semifinal games: No. 4 seed

West Florida West Florida () was a region on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico that underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history. Great Britain established West and East Florida in 1763 out of land acquired from France and S ...

and No. 3 seed Minnesota State. This was the first meeting between the two teams. West Florida defeated Minnesota State, 48–40 to win the 2019 NCAA Division II Football Championship.

National semifinals

Super region champions were seeded 1 to 4 for the national semifinals.

Game summary

Statistics

References

{{West Florida Argonauts football navbox Championship Game NCAA Division II Football Championship Games Minnesota State Mavericks football games West Florida Argonauts football games American football competitions in Texas NCAA Division II Football Championship Game NCAA Division II Football Championship Game McKinney, Texas Sports in Collin County, Texas