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NJCAA National Football Championship

American college football championships

National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) national football champions:

A photo at the conclusion of the 2022 Red Grange Bowl, the NJCAA Division III championship contest

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[2] Due to COVID-19, the 2020 fall season was postponed until the spring of 2021 and is denoted in the record book as the 2020–21 season.^[1]

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"NJCAA Football Record Book 2022" (PDF).

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"NJCAA Football Creates Divisions and Playoff System".

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"Long Beach Wins Juco Grid Title". The Idaho Statesmaan. December 19, 1960 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Vikings 17th, Cameron 1st". Press-Telegram. December 19, 1961 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Long Beach, Santa Ana Top Jaycees". Redwood City Tribune. December 24, 1962 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Perfect Ending! Orange Coast Tops JC Training". Los Angeles Times. December 20, 1963. p. 4, Part III – via Newspapers.com.

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"Vikings Top J.C. Grid-Wire Final Ratings". The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet. December 20, 1964 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Hawks 4th In Final JC Poll". Tri-city Herald. December 19, 1965 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Hawks Overlooked: Californians Top JC Grid Ratings". Tri-City Herald. December 18, 1966. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Harts 6th In Final Grid Poll". The Californian. December 15, 1967. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Rating Goof Rams Get 5th-Place Tie". The Fresno Bee. December 20, 1968. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Panthers Fail To Gain Spot In Grid Poll". The Californian. December 19, 1969. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.

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"CBC Rated 13th". Tri-City Herald. December 18, 1970. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Reedley Ranks Sixth In JC Grid Poll". The Fresno Bee. December 17, 1971. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.

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"JC Gridwire Does It Again Pasadena No. 2, Fresno No. 3". The Fresno Bee. December 17, 1972. p. D7 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Pasadena No. 1 in JC grid-wire; BC winds up 18th". The Bakersfield Californian. December 21, 1974. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.

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"COLLEGE FOOTBALL: At Ferrum, scoring in the 80s is nothing new".

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"Flashback: 2007 National Championship". 25 November 2019.

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"Blinn rallies in fourth to take national title". 7 December 2009.

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"#1 Northwest Mississippi routs #2 Rochester for title". 6 December 2015.

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"Garden City defeats Arizona Western for national title". 3 December 2016.

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"Title Town: Dragons Rally for Football Crown". 5 June 2021.

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"National champions! NMMI wins junior college football title". 17 December 2021.

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"First shutout since 1992. Iowa Western makes history in win over Hutchinson". twitter.com. December 15, 2022.

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Year	Institution	Location	Conference	Head coach
1953 not NJCAA JC Gridwire	Bakersfield	Bakersfield, California	California Community College Athletic Association
1954	Hinds Junior College	Raymond, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
1955 co-champions	Texarkana College Paris Junior College	Texarkana, Texas Paris, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference
1956	Coffeyville Community College	Coffeyville, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Cliff Long
1957	Texarkana College	Texarkana, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Duncan Thomas
1958	Boise Junior College	Boise, Idaho	Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference	Lyle Smith
1959	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Red Robertson
1960 co-champions	Tyler Junior College Cameron State Agricultural College	Tyler, Texas Lawton, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Floyd Wagstaff Leroy Montgomery
1961–1963 no champion
1964	Phoenix College	Phoenix, Arizona	Arizona Junior College Athletic Conference	Thomas Hogan
1965	Ferrum Junior College	Ferrum, Virginia	Coastal Football Conference	Hank Norton
1966	Kilgore College	Kilgore, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Boyd Converse
1967	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Chuck Bowman
1968	Ferrum	Ferrum, Virginia	Coastal Football Conference	Hank Norton
1969	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Chuck Bowman
1970	Fort Scott	Fort Scott, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Dick Foster
1971	Mississippi Gulf Coast	Perkinston, Mississippi	Mississippi Junior College Conference	George Sekul
1972	Arizona Western	Yuma, Arizona	Arizona Junior College Athletic Conference	Ray Butcher
1973	Mesa Community College	Mesa, Arizona	Arizona Community College Athletic Conference	Paul Wimder
1974	Ferrum Junior College	Ferrum, Virginia	Coastal Football Conference	Hank Norton
1975	Mesa Community College	Mesa, Arizona	Arizona Community College Athletic Conference	Paul Wimder
1976	Ellsworth Community College	Iowa Falls, Iowa		Vern Thompson
1977	Ferrum Junior College	Ferrum, Virginia	Coastal Football Conference	Hank Norton
1978	Iowa Central Community College	Fort Dodge, Iowa		Paul Schupe
1979	Ranger College	Ranger, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Tim Marcum
1980	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Glen Wolfe
1981	Butler Community College	El Dorado, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Fayne Henson
1982	Northwest Mississippi Community College	Senatobia, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Bobby Franklin
1983	Coffeyville Community College	Coffeyville, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Dick Foster
1984	Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College	Perkinston, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	George Sekul
1985	Snow College	Ephraim, Utah	Western States Football League	Walt Criner
1986	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Glen Wolfe
1987	Ellsworth Community College	Iowa Falls, Iowa	Independent	Lloyd Sisco
1988	Glendale Community College	Glendale, Arizona	Western States Football League	Joe Kersting
1989	Navarro College	Corsicana, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Bob McElroy
1990	Coffeyville Community College	Coffeyville, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Skip Foster
1991	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	Miami, Oklahoma	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Mike Loyd
1992	Northwest Mississippi Community College	Senatobia, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Bobby Franklin
1993	Mississippi Delta Community College	Moorhead, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	James Gray
1994	Trinity Valley Community College	Athens, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Randy Pippin
1995	Blinn College	Brenham, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Willie Fritz
1996	Blinn College	Brenham, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Willie Fritz
1997	Trinity Valley Community College	Athens, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Scotty Conley
1998	Butler Community College	El Dorado, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	James Shibest
1999	Butler Community College	El Dorado, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	James Shibest
2000	Glendale Community College	Glendale, Arizona	Western States Football League	Joe Kersting
2001	Georgia Military College	Milledgeville, Georgia	Independent	Bert Williams
2002	Joliet Junior College	Joliet, Illinois	North Central Community College Conference	Bob MacDougall
2003	Butler Community College	El Dorado, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Troy Morrell
2004	Pearl River Community College	Poplarville, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Tim Hatten
2005	Glendale Community College	Glendale, Arizona	Western States Football League	Joe Kersting
2006	Blinn College	Brenham, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Brad Franchione
2007	Butler Community College Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (co-champions)	El Dorado, Kansas Perkinston, Mississippi	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Troy Morrell Steve Campbell
2008	Butler Community College	El Dorado, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Troy Morrell
2009	Blinn College	Brenham, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Brad Franchione
2010	Navarro College	Corsicana, Texas	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Nick Bobeck
2011	East Mississippi Community College	Scooba, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Buddy Stephens
2012	Iowa Western Community College	Council Bluffs, Iowa	Independent	Scott Strohmeier
2013	East Mississippi Community College	Scooba, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Buddy Stephens
2014	East Mississippi Community College	Scooba, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Buddy Stephens
2015	Northwest Mississippi Community College	Senatobia, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Jack Wright
2016	Garden City Community College	Garden City, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Jeff Sims
2017	East Mississippi Community College	Scooba, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Buddy Stephens
2018	East Mississippi Community College	Scooba, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Buddy Stephens
2019	Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College	Perkinston, Mississippi	Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges	Jack Wright
2020–21^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Hutchinson Community College	Hutchinson, Kansas	Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference	Drew Dallas

Year	Institution	Location	Conference	Head coach
2021	New Mexico Military Institute	Roswell, New Mexico	Southwest Junior College Football Conference	Kurt Taufa'asau
2022	Iowa Western Community College	Council Bluffs, Iowa	Iowa Community College Athletic Conference	Scott Strohmeier
2023	Iowa Western	Council Bluffs, Iowa	Iowa Community College Athletic Conference	Scott Strohmeier

Year	Institution	Location	Conference	Head coach
2021	College of DuPage	Glen Ellyn, IL	Independent	Matthew Rahn
2022	College of DuPage	Glen Ellyn, IL	Independent	Matthew Rahn
2023	College of DuPage	Glen Ellyn, IL	Independent	Matthew Rahn

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	Source
1960	Long Beach (10–0)	Hancock [CA] (10–0)	Bakersfield (9–1)	Del Mar [TX] (8–0–1)	Tyler [TX] (12–1)	^[3]
1961	Cameron (11–0), 788 points	Pearl River (10–0), 763 points	Bakersfield (9–1), 750 points	San Mateo (9–1), 746 points	Columbia Basin (9–0), 744 points	^[4]
1962	Santa Ana (10–0), 782.8 points Long Beach (9–0–1), 782.2 points		Orange Coast (9–1), 742 points	Henderson [TX] (10–1–1), 737 points	Columbia Basin (8–1–1), 734 points	^[5]
1963	Orange Coast (10–0), 775 points	Bakersfield (9–1), 764 points	Pearl River (9–0–1), 752 points	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (9–1), 748 points	Trinidad (8–2), 739 points	^[6]
1964	Long Beach (10–0), 790 points	Harbor (9–0), 754 points	Cameron (9–1), 750 points	Fullerton (8–2), 742 points	Jones County [MS] (9–1), 741 points Phoenix (10–1), 741 points	^[7]
1965	Fullerton (10–0), 784 points	Cerritos (10–0), 782 points	Henderson (10–1), 754 points	Columbia Basin (9–0), 752 points	Monterey (9–1), 743 points	^[8]
1966	Santa Monica (8–0–1), 768 points	Henderson (10–1), 764 points	Landy (10–0), 764 points	Fullerton (9–0–1), 763 points	Kilgore (10–1), 759 points	^[9]
1967	Fullerton (12–0), 793 points	Bakersfield (9–1), 769 points	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (9–1), 758 points	El Camino (8–1), 743 points	American River (11–1), 742 points	^[10]
1968	Jones County (MS) (9–0), 761 points	El Camino (10–1), 761 points	San Diego (9–1), 754 points	Bakersfield (8–1), 752 points	Ferrum [VA] (10–0), 751 points Fresno (10–2), 751 points	^[11]
1969	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (10–0)	Tyler (10–1)	Pasadena (8–0–1)	Pearl River [MS] (9–0)	Arizona Western (9–1)	^[12]
1970	Fort Scott (11–0), 764 points	Fullerton (11–1), 760 points	Redwoods (11–0), 758 points Sequoias (10–2), 758 points		Reedley [CA] (10–1), 749 points	^[13]
1971	Mississippi Gulf Coast (11–0), 783 points	El Camino (11–1), 782 points	Phoenix (9–1), 758 points	Arizona Western (9–1), 749 points	Fort Scott [KS] (10–1), 748 points	^[14]
1972	Arizona Western (10–0), 772 points	Pasadena CC (12–1), 763 points	Fresno CC (11–1–1), 759 points	Blinn [TX] (9–0), 758 points	Redwoods [CA] (11–0), 754 points	^[15]
1973	Gavilan (11–0), 773 points			Navarro, 753 points
1974	Pasadena (10–0–1)	Ferrum (10–0)	Grossmont (10–0–2)	East Los Angeles (9–1–2)	Mesa [AZ] (9–1)	^[16]

Year	Bowl game	Winning team	Losing team	Score
1953	Junior Rose Bowl	Bakersfield Community College (1)	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	13–6
1954	Junior Rose Bowl	Hinds Junior College (1)	El Camino Junior College	13–7
1956	National Bowl	Coffeyville Junior College (1)	Grand Rapids Junior College	46–6
1957		Texarkana Junior College (1)	Fairbury Junior College	56–0
1958		Boise Junior College (1)	Tyler Junior College	22–0
1959		Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (1)	Texarkana Junior College	10–7
1964		Phoenix College (1)	Oklahoma Military Academy	41–13
1965		Ferrum Junior College (1)	McCook Junior College	16–0
1966		Kilgore Junior College (1)	Ferrum Junior College	28–7
1967		Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (2)	Lees-McRae College	35–13
1968		Ferrum (1)	Phoenix	41–19
1969		Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (3)	Arizona Western College	20–6
1970		Fort Scott Junior College (1)	Mesa Community College	41–20
1971		Mississippi Gulf Coast (1)	Fort Scott Junior College	22–13
1972	El Toro Bowl	Arizona Western (1)	Fort Scott Junior College	36–8
1973	El Toro Bowl	Mesa Community College (1)	Iowa Central Community College	10–6
1974		Ferrum Junior College (2)	Baltimore City Community College	83–3^[17]
1975	Wool Bowl	Mesa Community College (2)	Indian Hills Community College	8–7
1976	Junior Rose Bowl	Bakersfield Community College (2)	Ellsworth Community College	29–14^[18]
1989	Mid-America Bowl	Navarro College (1)	Ellsworth Community College	41–17
1990	Mid-America Bowl	Coffeyville Community College (2)	Montgomery College	58–20
1991	Mid-America Bowl	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (4)	Northwest Mississippi Community College	49–21
1992	Mid-America Bowl	Northwest Mississippi Community College (1)	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	34–0
1993		Mississippi Delta Community College (1)	Nassau Community College	20–16
1994	Texas Juco Shrine Bowl	Trinity Valley Community College (1)	Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College	24–17
1997	Red River Bowl	Trinity Valley Community College (2)	Garden City Community College	48–13
2005	Valley of the Sun Bowl	Glendale Community College (1)	Grand Rapids Community College	50–48^[19]
2006	Pilgrim's Pride Bowl Classic	Blinn College (1)	Pearl River Community College	19–6
2007	Top of the Mountains Bowl Heart of Texas Bowl	Butler Community College (1) Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (2)	Snow College Kilgore College	56–27 62–28^[20]
2008	Top of the Mountains Bowl	Butler Community College (2)	Snow College	37–30^2OT
2009	Citizens Bank Bowl	Blinn College (2)	Fort Scott Community College	31–26^[21]
2010	Citizens Bank Bowl	Navarro College (2)	Butler Community College	13–12
2011	El Toro Bowl	East Mississippi Community College (1)	Arizona Western College	55–47
2012	Graphic Edge Bowl	Iowa Western Community College (1)	Butler Community College	27–7
2013	Mississippi Bowl	East Mississippi Community College (2)	Georgia Military College	52–32
2014	Mississippi Bowl	East Mississippi Community College (3)	Iowa Western Community College	34–17
2015	Mississippi Bowl	Northwest Mississippi Community College (2)	Rochester Community and Technical College	66–13^[22]
2016	El Toro Bowl	Garden City Community College (1)	Arizona Western College	25–22^[23]
2017	Mississippi Bowl	East Mississippi Community College (4)	Arizona Western College	31–28
2018		East Mississippi Community College (5)	Garden City Community College	10–9
2019		Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (3)	Lackawanna College	24–13
2021 (spring)		Hutchinson Community College (1)	Snow College	29–27^[24]

NJCAA_National_Football_Championship

NJCAA National Football Championship

Champions

Single division era (1956–2021)

Split division era (2021–present)

Division I

Division III

J. C. Gridwire rankings (1960–1974)

Championship games

Single division (1956–2021)

Division I (2021–present)

Division III (2021–present)

Top non-scholarship (2000–2010)

National Championships by team

See also

References

Additional sources

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Year	Winning team	Losing team	Score
2021	New Mexico Military Institute (1)	Iowa Western Community College	31–13^[25]
2022	Iowa Western Community College (3)	Hutchinson Community College (1)	31–0^[26]
2023	Iowa Western (3)	East Mississippi Community College (5)	61–14^[27]

Year	Bowl game	Winning team	Losing team	Score
2021	Red Grange Bowl	College of DuPage (1)	Nassau Community College	34–29
2022	Red Grange Bowl	College of DuPage (2)	North Dakota State College of Science	14–12
2023	Red Grange Bowl	College of DuPage (3)	Rochester Community and Technical College	33–29

Year	Champion	Record	Head coach
2000	Rochester Community and Technical College	12–0	Chuck Siefert
2001	Joliet Junior College	10–1	Bob MacDougall
2002	Joliet Junior College	11–0	Bob MacDougall
2003	Harper College	10–1	John Eliasik
2004	Harper College	9–2	John Eliasik
2005	Grand Rapids Community College	9–2	Jim Schulte
2006	Vermilion Community College	10–2	Steve Crittenden
2007	Rochester Community and Technical College	11–0	Brad LaPlante
2008	Harper College	11–1	Dragan Teonic
2009	Grand Rapids Community College	9–2	Tony Annese
2010	Nassau Community College	11–0	Jermaine Miles