The NCAA Division I Football Championship is an American college football tournament played each year to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Prior to the year 2006, the game was known as the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. The FCS is the highest division in college football to hold a playoff tournament to determine its champion (until 2014 when the FBS adopts a four-team playoff system).
The 2011 national champions are the Bison of North Dakota State University, who defeated the Sam Houston State University Bearkats 17–6 on January 7, 2012, at FC Dallas Stadium, then known as Pizza Hut Park, in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas.
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