Game Name: | NAIA Football National Championship |
Title Sponsor: | Russell Athletic |
Date Game Played: | December 19 |
Year Game Played: | 2014 |
Football Season: | 2014 |
Stadium: | Municipal Stadium |
City: | Daytona Beach, Florida |
Home School: | Marian University |
Home Name Short: | Marian |
Home Nickname: | Knights |
Home Record: | 11 - 2 |
Home Rank Coaches: | 7 |
Home Coach: | Mark Henninger |
Home 1Q: | 7 |
Home 2Q: | 3 |
Home 3Q: | 14 |
Home 4Q: | 7 |
Visitor School: | Southern Oregon |
Visitor Name Short: | Southern Oregon |
Visitor Nickname: | Raiders |
Visitor Record: | 12 - 2 |
Visitor Rank Coaches: | 8 |
Visitor Coach: | Craig Howard |
Visitor 1Q: | 24 |
Visitor 2Q: | 14 |
Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
Visitor 4Q: | 17 |
Attendance: | 1,941 |
The 2014 NAIA football national championship was a four round sixteen team tournament played between November 22 through December 19 of 2014. The tournament concluded on December 19 with a single game played as the 59th Annual Russell Athletic NAIA Football National Championship. The game matched #8 Southern Oregon (12–2) against #7 Marian (11–2).[1]
The championship game was played at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. A total of sixteen teams participated in the single-elimination tournament from across the country. Placement in the tournament was based on the final edition of the 2014 NAIA Coaches' Poll. This year's field included all but one of the top 17 teams from the final poll.
This was a new venue for the championship game, which had been contested for the past six years at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia.