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PSAC Football Championship Game

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Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Championship Game
SportFootball
ConferencePennsylvania State Athletic Conference
Number of teams2 (One from each division)
Current stadiumcampus sites
Current locationcampus sites
Played1960–present
Last contestNovember 11, 2023
Current championKutztown (4th title)
Most championshipsWest Chester and Bloomsburg, 16

The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Championship Game or PSAC Football Championship is a yearly American football championship game between two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference teams (East and West division champions) to decide the champions of the PSAC.

The championship games date back to 1960 where West Chester was the first to win, however champions had been selected by sportswriters and the Saylor Point System since 1934. Champions have been decided every year since then, except for three years during World War II, and in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic when PSAC did not compete.

Home advantage alternates each year, with the east division champion hosting every odd-numbered year and the west division champion hosting every even-numbered year.

List of champions

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Prior to Championship Game

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Year Champion[1]
1934 IUP
1935 Shippensburg
1936 Lock Haven
1937 Lock Haven
1938 Mansfield
1939 Slippery Rock
1940 IUP/Millersville
1941 Millersville
1942 East Stroudsburg
1943 No Champion
1944 No Champion
1945 No Champion
1946 California (PA)
1947 Mansfield
1948 Bloomsburg
1949 Bloomsburg
1950 West Chester
1951 Bloomsburg
1952 West Chester
1953 West Chester
1954 Bloomsburg/East Stroudsburg
/West Chester
1955 Bloomsburg
1956 West Chester
1957 Lock Haven/Shippensburg
1958 California (PA)
1959 West Chester

In 1943, 1944, 1945 no teams competed in PSAC play due to WWII.

Championship Game

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Year Champion Score Loser
1960 West Chester 35–6 Lock Haven
1961 West Chester 21–0 Slippery Rock
1962 Slippery Rock 13–6 East Stroudsburg
1963 West Chester 36–7 Slippery Rock
1964 East Stroudsburg 27–14 IUP
1965 East Stroudsburg 26–10 IUP
1966 Clarion 28–26 West Chester
1967 West Chester 27–7 Clarion
1968 California (PA) 28–28 East Stroudsburg
1969 West Chester 41–34 Clarion
1970 Edinboro 14–6 West Chester
1971 West Chester 35–14 Edinboro
1972 Slippery Rock 29–27 West Chester
1973 Slippery Rock 28–14 West Chester
1974 Slippery Rock 20–7 West Chester
1975 East Stroudsburg 24–20 Edinboro
1976 East Stroudsburg 14–14 Shippensburg
1977 Clarion 25–24 Millersville
1978 East Stroudsburg 49–3 Clarion
1979 Lock Haven 48–14 Cheney
1980 Clarion 15–14 Kutztown
1981 Shippensburg 34–17 Millersville
1982 East Stroudsburg 24–22 Edinboro
1983 Clarion 27–14 East Stroudsburg
1984 California (PA) 21–14 Bloomsburg
1985 Bloomsburg 31–9 IUP
1986 IUP 20–6 West Chester
1987 IUP 21–9 West Chester
2008 California (PA) 47–36 West Chester
2009 Shippensburg 42–35 California (PA)
2010 Mercyhurst 56–37 Bloomsburg
2011 Kutztown 21–14 Slippery Rock
2012 IUP 41–10 Shippensburg
2013 Bloomsburg 42–38 Slippery Rock
2014 Slippery Rock 28–26 Bloomsburg
2015 Slippery Rock 61–12 West Chester
2016 California (PA) 49–7 Kutztown
2017 IUP 24–7 West Chester
2018 West Chester 33–10 Slippery Rock
2019 Slippery Rock 37–35 Kutztown
2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Kutztown 38–32[2] Slippery Rock
2022 IUP 24–21 Shepherd
2023 Kutztown 31-7 Slippery Rock
2024 Kutztown 21-14 California (PA)

Championships by team

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Schools that no longer play PSAC football are in italics.

# School Championships
T–1 Bloomsburg 16
T–1 West Chester 16
3 Slippery Rock 13
4 East Stroudsburg 12
5 California 9
6 Millersville 8
T–7 Shippensburg 7
T–7 IUP 7
T–9 Clarion 6
T–9 Edinboro 6
T–11 Lock Haven 4
T–11 Kutztown 4
13 Mansfield 2
14 Mercyhurst 1
Notes
  • Mansfield no longer plays full-sized football, opting instead to sponsor sprint football, a variant that uses standard NCAA football rules but restricts player weights to a maximum of 178 pounds (81 kg).
  • One other PSAC member, Pitt–Johnstown, does not sponsor football.
  • Among current PSAC members that sponsor football, three have never won the conference title—Gannon, Seton Hill, and Shepherd. All are among the conference's newer members; Gannon joined in 2008, Seton Hill in 2013, and Shepherd in 2019.

References

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  1. ^ "Year-by-Year PSAC Winners" (PDF). Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Kutztown Earns Second PSAC Football Championship with Win over Slippery Rock, 38-32".