1966 junior college football season

The 1966 junior college football season was the season of intercollegiate junior college football running from September to December 1966. won the NJCAA National Football Championship, defeating in the Shrine Bowl in Savannah, Georgia. , champions of the Metropolitan Conference placed in the top spot in Gridwire's final junior college rankings.

Kilgore was co-champion of the Texas Junior College Football Federation (TJCFF) with, which won the Junior Rose Bowl over. Henderson County finished second in the Gridwire rankings. , which finished the season with a perfect record of 10–0, won the Coast Conference title, and defeated the in the Prune Bowl, ranked third. , champion of California's Eastern Conference and winner of the Potato Bowl over, finished the season 9–0–1 and ranked fourth. NJCAA champion Kilgore was fifth in the Gridwire rankings.