1980 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game

The culminating game of the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Boise State, 31–29.

The Colonels, defending champions from 1979, became the first program to play in a second I-AA title game.

The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1980 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a four-team bracket.

This was the second appearance for Eastern Kentucky in a Division I-AA championship game, having won in 1979.

Trailing 24–22 late in the fourth quarter, Eastern Kentucky scored a touchdown on a 60-yard pass completion with only 55 seconds left in the game, taking a 29–24 lead.