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Map of NAIA football programs, 2024 This is a list of schools in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) that have football as a varsity sport. [ 1 ] In the 2024 season , there are a total of 97 NAIA football programs.
In 1970, NAIA football was divided into two divisions based on enrollment, Division I and Division II, with a championship game played in each division. In 1997, NAIA football was again consolidated back into one division. NAIA schools are allowed to offer 24 full varsity football scholarships which can be divided up as they wish.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) includes 97 teams. Each team has one head coach. [1] As of the 2024 season, the NAIA is composed of ten conferences: the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC), Frontier Conference, Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC), Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC), Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC), Mid-South Conference ...
Membership – The NAIA was the first association to admit colleges and universities from outside the United States. The NAIA began admitting Canadian members in 1967. Football – The NAIA was the first association to send a football team to Europe to play. In the summer of 1976, the NAIA sent Henderson State and Texas A&I to play 5 exhibition ...
This is a list of NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Division I football seasons from when the NAIA split its football championship into two divisions in 1970 until it consolidated back into a single championship in 1996. [1] The NAIA added flag football as a women's varsity sport in 2021. [2]
A separate NAIA Division II football national championship was also held between 1970 and 1996, with the same number of teams competing in its annual playoffs. [1] Many of the teams who participated in past editions of the playoffs have subsequently joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or disbanded their programs.
The NAIA Division II football national championship was a post-season playoff system featuring the best NAIA Division II college football teams in the United States. It was played annually between 1970 and 1996 when NAIA football play was divided into two divisions based on school enrollment size; the NAIA Division I football national championship was played separately.
South East Atlantic Conference (2004–2008), football only, members became NAIA football independents; Southern States Conference (1938–1997), formerly the Alabama Intercollegiate Conference and the Alabama Collegiate Conference; Tri-State Conference (1960–1981) Volunteer State Athletic Conference (1940s–early 1980s)