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This is a list of universities in the United States that sponsored football at one time but have since discontinued their programs. The last season that the school fielded a football team is included. Schools are split up based on their current athletics affiliation. The affiliation of the football team while it was active may have been different.
Atlantic Central Football Conference: 1997: 2010: Mid-Atlantic – Empire 8 NJAC USA South: Gateway Football Conference [g] Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (1985–1992) ‡ 1985: 2008: Plains States, Midwest States – MVFC: Illini-Badger Football Conference Illini-Badger-Hawkeye Football Conference (1989–1990) 1976: 2007: Illinois ...
Conferences that disbanded before the NCAA split into divisions for the first time in 1956, but are retroactively recognized by the NCAA as having been "major conferences". Conferences that, at their demise, were members of the NCAA University Division, the predecessor to Division I (1956–1972).
However, nearly all of the school's lettermen transferred elsewhere, forcing SMU to keep its football program shuttered for 1988 as well. SMU also remained on probation until 1990. At that time, NCAA rules prohibited schools on probation from appearing on live television. As a result, the conference's market share in television coverage dwindled.
Disbanded after the Atlantic Sun Conference and Big South Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse. New England Collegiate Conference: Division III: 2007: 2023: Disbanded as an all-sports conference after steady losses of membership, both by schools closing and moves to other conferences. Remains in operation for men's volleyball and the ...
The NCAA classifies FBS football as a "head-count" sport, meaning that each player receiving any athletically-related aid from the school counts fully against the 85-player limit. By contrast, FCS football is classified as an "equivalency" sport, which means that scholarship aid is limited to the equivalent of a specified number of full ...
The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a collegiate athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (including all four original PCC charter members) in the Pac-12 for many years, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due ...
NCAA University Division football (2 C) Pages in category "Defunct college football organizations" This category contains only the following page.