The 2023 NAIA football season is the component of the 2023 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States.
The regular season will begin on August 19 and will culminate on November 11.
The playoffs, known as the NAIA Football National Championship, will begin on November 18 and culminate with the championship game on December 18 at Durham County Memorial Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.
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The NAIA Council of Presidents voted on and approved expanding the NAIA football playoffs from 16 to 20 teams effective for this season. Under the new format, there will be 13 automatic qualifiers, with 7 more at-large teams picked from the Top 25 teams in the final NAIA Coaches Poll, and the top 12 seeds will receive a bye in the first round.