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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.
Thus I-AA membership hit an early peak of 91 in 1982, before settling down into the 80-90 range for the next several years. The next big increase in Division I-AA membership came after the January 1991 NCAA convention voted to require an athletic program to maintain all of its sports at the same divisional level by the 1993 season. [6]
The abbreviation may be non-obvious. For example, "KU" is the University of Kansas and not "UK," which is commonly the University of Kentucky . In some cases, the nickname may be better known than the formal name.
The Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, consists of 130 teams as of the 2022 season, with all participating in one of 14 conferences. [77] The "I-AA" designation was dropped by the NCAA in 2006, although it is still informally and commonly used.
Intercollegiate sports began in the United States in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale universities met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing. [13] As rowing remained the preeminent sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations like the Rowing Association of American Colleges ...
Though AA usually avoids the term disease [citation needed], 1973 conference-approved literature said "we had the disease of alcoholism", [137] while Living Sober, published in 1975, contains several references to alcoholism as a disease, [138]: 23, 32, 40 including a chapter urging the reader to "Remember that alcoholism is an incurable ...
The American Athletic Conference (AAC), also known as The American, is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States, featuring 13 full member universities and 6 affiliate member universities that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I.
Dartmouth College: New Hampshire Private 1769 2019 [25] 6,571 155,445 Duke University: North Carolina Private 1838 1938 14,600 901,807 Emory University: Georgia Private 1836 1995 14,513 [c] 568,149 George Washington University: District of Columbia Private 1821 2023 26,457 161,867 Georgia Institute of Technology: Georgia Public 1885 2010 29,370