INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced its field for the 2021 Division III football championship on Sunday and Washington and Lee will travel to 13-time National Champion Mount Union for a first-round contest.
 
The Generals and Purple Raiders will meet at 12:00 pm on Saturday, November 20 in Alliance, Ohio.
 
Mount Union posted a 10-0 record during the regular season and received an automatic bid from the Ohio Athletic Conference.  The Purple Raiders are ranked fourth in the D3Football.com Division III poll and average 48.9 points per game, while allowing just 9.1 points per outing.  They also allow an average of just 61.9 yards per game on the ground and 211.6 yards overall.
 
W&L finished its regular season with an 8-2 overall record and a 5-1 mark in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.  The Generals earned the ODAC's automatic berth to the tournament and were riding an eight-game winning streak until a regular season-ending loss to Shenandoah on Saturday.  The Blue & White averages 31.9 points per game and ranks fifth in Division III in rushing offense (324.8 ypg).

The winner of the first-round contest will take on the winner of a match-up between Salisbury (8-1) and Johns Hopkins (9-1) on November 27.

W&L is seeking its first-ever NCAA Tournament win (0-5).  The Generals met Mount Union in their last NCAA Championship outing on November 18, 2017.  The Purple Raiders claimed a 21-0 win on their way to seizing the 2017 NCAA title.

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