List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
This is a list of schools in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that play football in the United States as a varsity sport and are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005. There will be 125 FCS programs in the upcoming 2018 season. Conference affiliations are current for the 2018 season. The teams in this subdivision compete in a 24-team playoff for the NCAA Division I Football Championship. All leagues allow scholarships with the exception of the Ivy League and Pioneer Football League.
FCS programs
Alabama
- Alabama A&M University
- Alabama State University
- Jacksonville State University
- University of North Alabama
- Samford University
Arizona
- Northern Arizona University
Arkansas
- University of Arkansas—Pine Bluff
- University of Central Arkansas
California
- California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
- California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State)
- University of San Diego
- University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
Colorado
- University of Northern Colorado
Connecticut
- Central Connecticut State University
- Sacred Heart University
- Yale University
Delaware
- University of Delaware
- Delaware State University
Florida
- Bethune-Cookman University
- Florida A&M University
- Jacksonville University
- Stetson University
Georgia
- Kennesaw State University
- Mercer University
- Savannah State University
Idaho
- University of Idaho
- Idaho State University
Illinois
- Eastern Illinois University
- Illinois State University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Southern Illinois)
- Western Illinois University
Indiana
- Butler University
- Indiana State University
- Valparaiso University
Iowa
- Drake University
- University of Northern Iowa
Kentucky
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Morehead State University
- Murray State University
Louisiana
- Grambling State University
- McNeese State University
- Nicholls State University
- Northwestern State University
- Southeastern Louisiana University
- Southern University and A&M College
Maine
- University of Maine
Maryland
- Morgan State University
- Towson University
Massachusetts
- Harvard University
- College of the Holy Cross
- Merrimack College (2019–future)
Mississippi
- Alcorn State University
- Jackson State University
- Mississippi Valley State University
Missouri
- Missouri State University
- Southeast Missouri State University
Montana
- University of Montana
- Montana State University
New Hampshire
- Dartmouth College
- University of New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Monmouth University
- Princeton University
New York
- University at Albany, SUNY
- Colgate University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Fordham University
- Long Island University (2019–future)
- Marist College
- Stony Brook University
- Wagner College
North Carolina
- Campbell University
- Davidson College
- Elon University
- Gardner-Webb University
- North Carolina A&T State University
- North Carolina Central University
- Western Carolina University
North Dakota
- University of North Dakota
- North Dakota State University
Ohio
- University of Dayton
- Youngstown State University
Oregon
- Portland State University
Pennsylvania
- Bucknell University
- Duquesne University
- Lafayette College
- Lehigh University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Morris University
- Saint Francis University
- Villanova University
Rhode Island
- Brown University
- Bryant University
- University of Rhode Island
South Carolina
- Charleston Southern University
- The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
- Furman University
- Presbyterian College
- South Carolina State University
- Wofford College
South Dakota
- University of South Dakota
- South Dakota State University
Tennessee
- Austin Peay State University
- East Tennessee State University
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga)
- University of Tennessee at Martin
- Tennessee State University
- Tennessee Technological University
Texas
- Abilene Christian University
- Houston Baptist University
- University of the Incarnate Word
- Lamar University
- Prairie View A&M University
- Sam Houston State University
- Stephen F. Austin State University
- Texas Southern University
Utah
- Southern Utah University
- Weber State University
Virginia
- Hampton University
- James Madison University
- Norfolk State University
- University of Richmond
- Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
- College of William & Mary
Washington
- Eastern Washington University
Washington, D.C.
- Georgetown University
- Howard University
Transitioning from Division II
The following programs are transitioning from NCAA Division II to FCS. Under current NCAA rules, they must have an invitation from a Division I conference to begin the transition. During the four-year transition period, they will be ineligible for the FCS playoffs.
| Team | School | City | State | Founded | First played | Conference | End of transition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Alabama Lions | University of North Alabama | Florence | Alabama | 1830 | 1912 | Independent[n 7] | 2022 |
Future FCS programs
| Team | School | City | State | Current Conference |
Future FCS Conference |
First Played |
FCS Football Membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merrimack Warriors | Merrimack College | North Andover | Massachusetts | NE10 (NCAA Division II) | Northeast (2019) | 1985 | 2019[f 1] |
| LIU (nickname TBA) | Long Island University | Brookville | New York | Northeast (NCAA Division I) | Northeast (2019) | 1957[f 2] | 2019[f 3] |
- Notes
- ↑ Merrimack will begin a transition from Division II to Division I in 2018, joining the Northeast Conference as a full member, including football. The Warriors will not be eligible for the FCS playoffs until completing the transition in 2023.
- ↑ First season of the LIU Post program that will become the LIU program in 2019.
- ↑ Effective in 2019–20, Long Island University will merge its two athletic programs—the Division I non-football LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and Division II football-sponsoring LIU Post Pioneers—into a single D-I athletic program under the LIU name. The LIU Post football team will become the new LIU football team, playing at its current home on the Post campus and joining the Northeast Conference. The unified program will have a new nickname chosen by alumni and students of both the Brooklyn and Post campuses. LIU will not be eligible for the FCS playoffs until completing the transition in 2023.
Map
Cal Poly
E. Washington
Idaho
Idaho St.
Montana
Montana St.
N. Arizona
N. Colorado
Portland St.
Sac. St.
S. Utah
UC Davis
Weber St.
Campbell
Charleston S.
Gardner-Webb
Kennesaw St.
Monmouth
Presbyterian
Albany
Delaware
Elon
JMU
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Richmond
2
9
Villanova
W&M
Brown
4
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
8
Yale
Bethune-Cookman
Del. St.
FAMU
Howard
Morgan St.
Norfolk St.
NC A&T
NCCU
Savannah St.
SCS
Illinois St.
Indiana St.
Missouri St.
ND St.
N. Iowa
South Dakota
SD St.
S. Illinois
W. Illinois
Youngstown St.
Bryant
12
11
RMU
1
10
5
Peay
E. Illinois
EKU
JSU
Murray St.
SE Missouri St.
TSU
Tenn. Tech
UTM
Bucknell
Colgate
3
Georgetown
13
6
7
Butler
Davidson
Dayton
Drake
Jacksonville
Marist
Morehead St.
San Diego
Stetson
Valparaiso
Chattanooga
Citadel
ETSU
Furman
Mercer
Samford
VMI
W. Carolina
Wofford
ACU
C. Arkansas
HBU
Incarnate Word
Lamar
McNeese St.
Nicholls St.
NSU
Sam Houston
SE Louisiana
SFAU
AAMU
Alabama St.
Alcorn St.
UAPB
Grambling St.
Jackson St.
MVSU
PVAMU
Southern
Texas S.
Hampton
UNA
N. Dakota
All FCS programs during the 2018 season. Conferences (clockwise from Northeast): purple pog: NEC, cyan pog: CAA, green pog: Ivy League, red marker: Pioneer League, red pog: Big South, orange marker: Patriot League, orange pog: MEAC, magenta marker: Southern Conference, light green marker: SWAC, dark green marker: Ohio Valley, blue marker: Southland, brown pog: Big Sky, yellow pog: Missouri Valley, white pog: Independent. Labels: 1: Sacred Heart, 2: Stony Brook, 3: Fordham, 4: Columbia, 5: Wagner, 6: Lafayette, 7: Lehigh, 8: Princeton, 9: Towson, 10: Saint Francis, 11: Duquesne, 12: Central Connecticut State, 13: Holy Cross.
Notes
- ↑ Hampton football will join its other sports in the Big South Conference in 2019.
- ↑ Although the academic core of the Harvard campus, including the university administration, is located in Cambridge, the school's athletic complex, including the football stadium, is within the city limits of Boston.
- ↑ This is Idaho's second stint in the grouping now known as FCS; it had been a member of what was then known as Division I-AA from the group's creation in 1978 through 1995, after which it moved to the league then known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (now the Big West Conference). At that time, the PCAA sponsored FBS (then Division I-A) football.
- ↑ After a long controversy over its use, North Dakota dropped its former nickname of Fighting Sioux and virtually all of its former Native American imagery. Under state law, the school could not choose a new nickname until 2015. On November 18, 2015 it was announced that the Fighting Hawks would be the new nickname, after a runoff against Roughriders.
- ↑ North Dakota football will play the 2018 and 2019 seasons as an independent, although it will continue to play a full Big Sky schedule. The Fighting Hawks will join the MVFC in 2020.
- ↑ Presbyterian has begun a transition to non-scholarship football; it will leave Big South Conference football in 2020 (though remaining a member in other sports), play that season as an FCS independent, and then join the Pioneer Football League in 2021.
- ↑ North Alabama will become a football-only member of the Big South Conference in 2019.
See also
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums
- List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division II football programs
- List of NCAA Division III football programs
- List of NAIA football programs
- List of community college football programs
- List of NCAA Institutions with club football teams
- List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football
- List of defunct college football teams
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