The 2018 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, began on August 30, 2018, and ended with the Division II championship on December 15, 2018, at the McKinney Independent School District Stadium in McKinney, Texas, hosted by the Lone Star Conference.^[1] The game was originally scheduled for Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas, on the last year of a five-year contract,^[2] but that contract was terminated in September 2018 to allow off-season renovation of the field for its primary tenant, professional soccer club Sporting KC.^[3]

Valdosta State beat Ferris State, 49-47, for the championship.

Headlines

• October 3 – Long Island University announced that it would merge its two current athletic programs—the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, full but non-football members of the Division I FCS Northeast Conference (NEC), and LIU Post Pioneers, full members of the Division II non-football East Coast Conference and football members of the Northeast-10 Conference—effective with the 2019–20 school year. The new program will compete under the LIU name with a new nickname, inheriting the Division I and NEC memberships of LIU Brooklyn. Following the athletic merger, the former Post football team will become the LIU football team, competing in the NEC as an FCS member.^[4]

Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

Division II team wins over FCS teams

• September 1:
  • Morehouse 34, Arkansas–Pine Bluff 30
• September 22:
  • Truman State 34, Valparaiso 20

Conference standings

Super Region 1