Notes from North Alabama SID Jeff Hodges:

Wayne State is just the second unranked team (AFCA Top 25) to ever reach the Division II Championship Game.  Delta State was the first in 2010.  The only previous sixth seed to reach the game championship game was the 2005 Northwest Missouri State squad.

This will be the fourth time in 39 Division II Football Championships that a three-loss team has reached the title game.  Northern Colorado was 11-3 entering the 1996 game and won.  Northwest Missouri State was 11-3 entering 2005 game and lost.  Delta State was 11-3 last season and lost Minnesota-Duluth.

Click here for the 2011 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game Home Page.

Online Fan Guide to Florence, Alabama.

Team Itinerary.

The game will kickoff at 10 am Central time (11 am in Detroit) and will be televised live on ESPN2.

The Warriors recorded 4,588 round trip charter airplane miles through the first four rounds of the NCAA Playoffs flying from Detroit Metro to Minneapolis (then bussing to St. Cloud), to Grand Island, Neb. (then bussing to Kearney), to Duluth, Minn., and to Winston-Salem, N.C.