The crowd is gathering before the game.

The game ball comes by air

Northwest scores first but struggles through the first three quarters as Carson-Newman

piles up the yards and the points.

They don’t run Number 74’s side of the line this time.

The Bearcat defense takes the field again to try to stop the powerful Eagle offense one more time.

Geoff stops this one at the line for only a yard.

Watching from the sidelines for the offense to pull it out of the fire one more time.

54 seconds left for the Bearcats and the goal line is a long 74 yards away with no timeouts left, down 36-44. The Bearcat faithful and a national television audience watch.

NWMS’s Ryan George pulls in a pass on a two-point conversion attempt. This tied the game 44-44 with 10

seconds left in regulation play

The Bearcats score sixteen points in the final 3 minutes to tie the game with ten

seconds left in regulation time.

The Bearcats come from behind for the fourth straight week to claim the 1999 National Championship Title.

The goal posts aren’t going anywhere tonight!

Coach Mel Tjeerdsma and Chad Thompson celebrate winning a

second National

Title

The longest, highest scoring title game in NCAA history at any division level is over.

Back to Back National Champs!

In one of the greatest college football games ever played, the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats won their second consecutive NCAA Division II Football National Championship Saturday. Northwest overcame a huge deficit to tie the game against Carson-Newman College at 44-44 at the end of regulation. The national championship game ended in the fourth overtime, with the Bearcats on top 58-52.