The game was played on December 16, 1995, at Marshall University Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.
The culminating game of the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Montana, 22–20.
[3] The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1995 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket.
[4] The site of the title game, Marshall University Stadium, had been determined in March 1994.
Seeded sixth in the playoffs, the Grizzlies defeated 10-seed Eastern Kentucky, 14-seed Georgia Southern, and seventh-seed Stephen F. Austin to reach the final.