2022 Northwestern Red Raiders football team

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The 2022 Northwestern Red Raiders football team represented Northwestern College as a member of the Great Plains Athletic Conference during the 2022 NAIA football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Matt McCarty, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 13–1 with a mark of 9–1 in conference play, placing second in the GPAC.

Northwestern (IA) beat Dickinson State in the first round, Marian (IN) in the quarterfinals, and Indiana Wesleyan in the seminfinals before playing in the 2022 NAIA Football National Championship where they played Keiser and won 35–25 to secure the school's third-overall title. Northwestern (IA) played home games at Korver Field at De Valois Stadium in Orange City, Iowa.

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 3	7:00 p.m.	at No. 1 Morningside	No. 3	Elwood Olsen Stadium Sioux City, IA	L 29–30	9,024	[1]
September 10	1:00 p.m.	Dakota Wesleyan	No. 4	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA	W 54–7	0	[2]
September 17	1:00 p.m.	at Jamestown	No. 4	Hansen Stadium Jamestown, ND	W 48–3	0	[3]
September 24	1:00 p.m.	Concordia (NE)	No. 4	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA	W 34–10	0	[4]
October 1	1:30 p.m.	Mount Marty	No. 4	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA	W 52–8	0	[5]
October 15	1:00 p.m.	Dordt	No. 4	Open Space Park Sioux Center, IA	W 23–0	0	[6]
October 22	12:00 p.m.	at Doane	No. 4	Memorial Stadium Crete, NE	W 59–10	600	[7]
October 29	1:00 p.m.	Briar Cliff	No. 4	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA	W 56–7	0	[8]
November 5	1:00 p.m.	No. 15 Midland	No. 3	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA	W 42–10	0	[9]
November 12	1:00 p.m.	at Hastings	No. 3	Lloyd Wilson Field Hastings, NE	W 41–10	0	[10]
November 19	12:00 p.m.	No. 17 Dickinson State*	No. 3	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA (NAIA First Round)	W 49–7	0	[11]
November 26	12:00 p.m.	No. 7 Marian (IN)*	No. 3	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA (NAIA Quarterfinal)	W 52–27	0	[12]
December 3	12:00 p.m.	No. 5 Indiana Wesleyan*	No. 3	De Valois Stadium Orange City, IA (NAIA Semifinal)	W 38–7	0	[13]
December 17	12:00 p.m.	No. 12 Keiser*	No. 3	Durham County Memorial Stadium Durham, NC (NAIA Championship Game)	W 35–25	0	[14]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from NAIA Coaches' Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern Standard time

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