Nick Fehrle (Boylan) and Bobby Behmer (Lutheran) discuss their roles in the NCAA Division III national championship run.

North Central College's football team won its third NCAA D-III title in five seasons on Sunday. North Central defeated Mount Union (Ohio) 41-25 after a big scoring output in the fourth quarter. The Cardinals finished their season undefeated with a 15-0 overall record.

The Mount Union and North Central college football teams met in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. Here's how the NCAA D3 title game unfolded.

North Central College is headed to its fifth national title game in six years. On Sunday, the Cardinals face off against the University of Mount Union Purple Raiders from Alliance, Ohio, in the Stagg Bowl at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston.

Mount Union has won 13 D-III championships in 23 title game appearances, both of which are records. North Central — which captured its first title in 2019, the first championship-game berth in program history — beat the Purple Raiders 28-21 in the 2022 title game.

Mount Union's Tyler Echeverry ran 29 yards untouched to open the scoring — the first time North Central has trailed all season. Lehnen, who went 57-2 over his college career, threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Myles Walton to make it 7-7 with 4:35 left in the first quarter.

Luke Lehnen, who posted a 57-2 record across his college career, accounted for five touchdowns on Sunday night in Houston, and North Central defeated Mount Union 41-25 to win its third Division III national championship,