* Watch The Coach Shinnick Show recapping the game
* Watch the UWF Athletics VLOG from the week

It's hard to think that it has been an entire year since the UWF football team climbed to the top of the Division 2 football mountain and claimed the 2019 National Championship with a 48-40 win over Minnesota State.
 
Without any season to play as the most recent champion, 2020 gave us a lot of time to reflect on the 8-2 regular season that turned into the greatest postseason run in D2 history… and really, in college football history at any level.
 
Consider that no team had every beaten three number one seeds in the same tournament… until the Argonauts took down Valdosta State, Ferris State and Minnesota State.
 
And that no team had ever beaten four undefeated teams on their way to the title… until UWF stunned VSU, Lenior-Rhyne, Ferris and MSU – a group of teams that were a combined 50-0. Nine teams entered the 2019 Playoffs undefeated and UWF beat four of them. We never want to say it can't be done again, but with the previous mark of beating two undefeateds on the way to the crown, three was amazing after the Ferris win and four is downright legendary.
 
And don't get us started on the road wins. Playoff teams always have a little magic in them with each win, especially when it comes in enemy territory. The 2017 run saw the Argos slip on the Cinderella slipper four times on their way to the title game, and again in 2019, making both of UWF's tournament journeys nothing short of magical. Yes, the playoff whites are very much their preferred uniform combo in the postseason by the players and coaches.
 
For the record, winning a football national title in year four tied the NCAA record for the fastest title run, initially set by Georgia Southern in 1985 with the I-AA championship.
 
But looking back on the magical day in McKinney is something the student-athletes, coaches and fans will never forget.



Austin Reed finished with a school and NCAA Championship single-game record 523 passing yards and tied both organization marks with six passing touchdowns. He was 33-of-54 on the day with his completions tying the finals mark and his attempts setting a new top effort. He had 399 yards by halftime to break the previous yardage mark of 361 which had stood since 2002.
 
Standout receivers Quentin Randolph and Tate Lehtio had a field day on the receiving end of the throws. Randolph had 10 receptions for a school-record 254 yards and tied the championship game mark with three touchdowns. Lehtio set the title game record with 13 catches for 139 yards and a score.

As usual, the Argonaut defense continued to blow up the opposing offensive game plan, forcing MSU into a season-worst five fumbles, three of which were recovered by UWF.

In the weeks that followed, Pete Shinnick was named the National Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons, Reed was named the National Freshman of the Year and UWF was again, the headliner in the Pensacola Mardi Gras Parade.