Pittsburg State Football
1991 NCAA National Champions
The 1991 Gorilla Football team captured Pittsburg State University's first NCAA Division II National Championship - and the school's third all-time national championship overall - on December 14, 1991.
Pittsburg State defeated Jacksonville State University, 23-6, in the NCAA Division II National Championship game at Florence, Ala., to complete a 13-1-1 season under then second-year head coach Chuck Broyles.
The Gorillas built a 13-6 halftime advantage, pulling ahead in the final seconds of the second quarter then pulling away with 10 more unanswered points in the second half.
PSU won its final 11 games of the 1991 season, after a 2-1-1 start, to bring home the national title. The Gorillas captured their third straight MIAA title in 1991, after joining the conference and NCAA Division II in 1989.
The national championship was the first of now five football national titles captured by an MIAA school.