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Map of FBS football programs as of 2024. This is a list of the 134 schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. [1] By definition, all schools in this grouping have varsity football teams.
Five institutions, all Division II members, fielded teams in a Division I sport for the first time in the 2024–25 school year. LeMoyne–Owen and Rockhurst added men's volleyball; Menlo , Roosevelt , and Vanguard , which played that sport in the NAIA in 2023–24, aligned fully with the NCAA.
A map of all NCAA Division I basketball teams. [1] This is a list of schools who field men's basketball teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. By definition, all schools in this grouping have varsity basketball teams.
The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled in the 1950s the first list of All-Americans, including first-team selections ...
There are 129 FCS programs as of the 2024 season. [1] Conference affiliations are current for the 2024 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.
Under NCAA regulations, all Division I conferences defined as "multisport conferences" must meet the following criteria: [1] A total of at least seven active Division I members. Separate from the above, at least seven active Division I members that sponsor both men's and women's basketball. Sponsorship of at least 12 NCAA Division I sports.
The NCAA limited each football team to six television appearances over a two-year period. [45] The 1981 Supreme Court case NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma & University of Georgia granted television rights to individual schools as opposed to the NCAA and allowed teams to televise all of their games. [46]
The power conferences are all part of NCAA Division I, which contains most of the largest and most competitive collegiate athletic programs in the United States, and the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which is the higher of the two levels of college football within NCAA Division I. [3] It is unknown where the term "Power Conference" originated; it is not officially documented by the NCAA ...