This Indians squad won the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game.
The squad completed the regular season with an overall record of 9–2 and finished 6–0 to capture their first outright Southland Conference championship.
[2] En route to the championship game, NLU defeated North Texas, Eastern Kentucky and Northern Iowa.
[2] The Indians faced off against the Marshall Thundering Herd for the I-AA National Championship.
[3] In the championship game, Marshall took a 42–28 lead into the fourth quarter only to have Humphries lead the Indians to a pair of late touchdowns and captured the championship with their 43–42 victory.