North Central College players celebrate after winning the Stagg Bowl, the NCAA Division III national championship game, against Mount Union in Houston on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (Steve Woltmann / NCC) ...

North Central College is headed to its fifth national title game in six years. On Sunday, the Cardinals face off against the University of Mount Union Purple Raiders from Alliance, Ohio, in the ...

The state of Illinois has a college football national champion. Naperville-based North Central College won the NCAA Division III championship on Sunday night, defeating Mount Union 41-25 at the ...

North Central, appearing in the Stagg Bowl for the fifth straight time (not including the canceled 2020 COVID season) pulled away to a 41-25 over Mount Union. The Cardinals also won national ...

Naperville's North Central College is becoming a college football dynasty. The team is leaving Thursday evening for another appearance in the NCAA Division III football championship this weekend.

With North Central rushing for 352 yards and five scores, it was a well-balanced attack, but it was led by Lehnen, whose 4 TD passes give him 158 for his career and equals the best-ever total set ...

The North Central football team celebrates after winning the NCAA Division III national championship in 2022. The Cardinals made it two titles in three years and won their third in program history ...

On Friday night they were all on the field at North Central College before a standing room-only crowd, and making the plays No. 15 Naperville Central needed to pull out a stirring 24-21 ...

Championship Sunday for NCAA Division III college football arrived Sunday night. Mount Union and North Central clashed in an entertaining Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl at Houston's Shell Energy Stadium ...