DePauw hosts Rose-Hulman in opening round of NCAA Football Championship

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Following an 8-2 season which included a North Coast Athletic Conference championship, DePauw has been selected as a host of an NCAA Division III Football Championship first-round game. The Tigers will entertain Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Saturday, November 20, with kickoff on Nick Mourouzis Field at Blackstock Stadium set for Noon EST.

DePauw captured the NCAC title and the conference’s automatic qualifier with an 8-1 conference record, while Rose-Hulman earned an automatic bid by winning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference yesterday with a 58-21 home win over Mount St. Joseph to cap a 7-0 conference schedule and extend its win streak to seven.

The Tigers are making their third NCAA appearance after losing a first-round game at Thomas More in 2009 and dropping a first-round home game to Trine in 2010. The Fightin’ Engineers appeared in the 2016 postseason and dropped an opening-round game to North Central (Ill.).

More information will be available later regarding ticket prices.