List of football teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
This is a list of the 130 schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. By definition, all schools in this group have varsity football teams
Schools in Division I FBS differ from those in Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in that they can provide scholarships to a total of 85 players and full scholarships to all 85. FCS schools are limited to a maximum of 63 full scholarships in terms of financial support, although some conferences further voluntarily limit athletic support. The NCAA classifies FBS football as a "head count" sport, which means that any player who receives athletic help from the school counts fully towards the 85-player limit. In contrast, FCS football is classified as an "equivalence" sport, which means that scholarship assistance is limited to the equivalent of a certain number of full scholarships. This in turn means that FCS schools can freely award partial scholarships, but are also limited to a total of 85 players who receive support. Another NCAA rule states that any multi-athlete who plays football and receives sports assistance counts toward the football limit, with the exception of non-scholarship players in FCS programs who receive assistance in another sport. The three service academies of Division I FBS - Air Force, Army and Navy - are theoretically subject to this rule, but are excluded in practice, as all students in these schools receive full scholarships from the federal government.
As of 2014, the FBS began a four-team tournament that culminated in a national championship game to determine the national champion. A system that will be played from the 2014 to 2025 seasons on behalf of ESPN, the broadcaster of the games. However, because the College Football Playoffs are not approved by the NCAA, FBS football is the only sport without an NCAA-approved champion. The FCS is the highest division in college football that hosts an NCAA-approved playoff tournament to determine its champion.
Division I FBS football used to be the only NCAA sport without an official tournament to determine an undisputed national champion. Instead, the FBS schools played in a series of post-season - Bowl games , which in the BCS National Championship Game culminated, trying to crown a single national champion. Other organizations, notably the Associated Press , crowned their own champions through polls. The BCS and AP have not always agreed on a single champion. Before the BCS, the AP was considered the decision-making body for the coronation of a champion, but like any other organization before the BCS, it was founded as a regional voting body. For most of the years prior to the BCS era, the championships were claimed by more than one school.
The conference affiliations are current for the coming 2020 season
FBS teams
- Remarks
- ↑ a b When the FBS was founded in 1978 as Division IA, the Southern Conference was called the IA Conference. The SoCon was downgraded to FCS level (then Division I-AA) from the 1982 season. This school appeared during the 1978/81 season as the IA Conference in SoCon football.
- ↑ At the time the school was a two-year college known as Boise Junior College. The school didn't become a four-year establishment until 1965 and didn't start playing football against four-year-old schools until 1968.
- ↑ a b c Houston, Memphis and SMU originally planned to join the Big East Conference in 2013. However, the conference was split up in July 2013, with the seven non-FBS schools of the original conference buying the name "Big East" and organizing themselves as the new Big East conference outside of football. The FBS schools that did not change to the ACC at that time joined the three schools and remained in the original conference structure under the new name American Athletic Conference.
- ↑ Miami currently plays its home games in Miami Gardens, Florida.
- ↑ UConn currently plays their home games in East Hartford, Connecticut
- ↑ The UNLV campus is not in the city of Las Vegas, but in the unincorporated community of Paradise. During the 2019 season, the football team played their home games in another Las Vegas suburb, Whitney, and will move to the new Allegiant Stadium in Paradise in 2020.
Former teams
Others
- Several schools have different nicknames for men's and women's teams. Usually the point is to begin the nickname with "Lady", such as B. the LSU Lady Tigers and the Tennessee Lady Vols. Two FBS schools, nicknamed Cowboys, Oklahoma State and Wyoming, use cowgirls for women's teams. However, in some cases, the women's team's nickname takes an entirely different form, like Hawaii Rainbow Wahine and Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters. Since this is a list of American football programs that traditionally consist of men only, only the male form is given.
- The Pac-12 considers the Pacific Coast Conference or PCC to be part of its own history, although the PCC was formed with various founding members and disbanded due to a major crisis and scandal. There is considerable continuity between the two leagues. The Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU), which would later become the Pac-12, was formed by five former PCC members, and by 1964 all of the final PCC members except Idaho were reunited in AAWU.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ 9 states ( Alaska , Delaware , Maine , Montana , New Hampshire , North Dakota , Rhode Island , South Dakota , Vermont ) and Washington, DC do not currently have FBS programs.
- ↑ http://www.hurricanesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205820405
- ↑ http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/index.php
- ↑ a b c Gordon S. White Jr .: IVY LEAGUE IS FORCED TO LOSE MAJOR-TEAM FOOTBALL STATUS. In: New York Times. December 5, 1981. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1329850800