List of NCAA Division II football programs
This is a list of the schools in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States and Canada that have football as a varsity sport. In the 2020 season, there will be a total of 163 Division II football programs – four fewer than in 2019. Changes from 2019 are:
- Barton College and Erskine College will reinstate football.
- Dixie State University and Tarleton State University will begin transitions to Division I, joining the non-football Western Athletic Conference, with the football teams competing as independents in the second tier of D-I football, the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
- St. Cloud State University, University of Minnesota Crookston, and Florida Institute of Technology dropped the sport.
- Urbana University closed.
NCAA Division II football programs
- Reclassifying institutions in yellow.
- Alderson Broaddus joins the Mountain East Conference in 2020.
- Azusa Pacific – GNAC Affiliate Member / Primary: Pacific West Conference.
- Barton – Independent / Primary: Conference Carolinas.[1]
- Chowan – Primary affiliation changed to Conference Carolinas, but remains a CIAA football associate.
- Erskine – Independent / Primary: Conference Carolinas.[2]
- Transitioning from Division III.
- Limestone – SAC Affiliate Member / Primary: Conference Carolinas. Becomes a full SAC member in 2020 under the new name of Limestone University.
- Lincoln (MO) football rejoined the remainder of its sports in the MIAA after that league lost a football-sponsoring member.
- UNC Pembroke – Independent / Primary: Peach Belt Conference. Becomes a football affiliate of the Mountain East Conference in 2020.
- North Greenville – Gulf South / Primary: Conference Carolinas.
- Transitioning from Division I FCS.
Future Division II football programs
School | Nickname | City | State/ Province |
Future Conference |
Stadium | Cap. | Note | Begins Play |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anderson University | Trojans | Anderson | South Carolina | South Atlantic Conference | Primary conference: South Atlantic Conference | 2024 | ||
Edward Waters College | Tigers | Jacksonville, Florida | Florida | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Community Field and Athletic Stadium | 3,000 | Transitioning from NAIA | TBD |
See also
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division II lacrosse programs
- List of NCAA Division II men's soccer programs
- List of NCAA Division II wrestling programs
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division I FCS 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 defunct college football teams
- Collegiate Sprint Football League
References
- "NCAA DII Collegiate Football Is Coming to Barton". Barton.edu. Barton College. January 30, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
- "Erskine Bringing Back Football for 2020 Season". Erskine College. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- "Wheeling Jesuit University to Launch Football Program". Wheeling (Jesuit) University. June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
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