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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.
With the losses of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 Conference was reduced from 10 to 8 teams. On September 10, the Big 12 announced that BYU, an FBS independent and full member of the non-football West Coast Conference (WCC), along with American Athletic Conference (The American) members Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF would join the conference no later than 2024–25. [12]
Division I FCS since 2006; Teams in bold italics are now in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS); those in plain italics either play football in lower divisions or not at all. Teams followed by an asterisk (*) dropped football. Dates reflect when a team began play in I-AA/FCS, not when it became eligible for postseason play.
This is a list of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision alignment history. Teams in italics are no longer in the Football Bowl Subdivision. [1] Teams in bold italics have announced transitions to FBS. The most recent programs to complete an FBS transition are James Madison, Sam Houston, and Jacksonville State, which all began their ...
The conference is also adding FCS schools Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State as they move to the top level of college football. ... will be moving up from the FCS level. All four teams will ...
By definition, all schools in this grouping have varsity football teams. Schools in Division I FBS are distinguished from those in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) by being allowed to provide scholarship aid to a total of 85 players, and may grant a full scholarship to all 85. FCS schools are limited to financial ...
Missouri State football's upcoming move to Conference USA and FBS continues to raise questions as to what the Bears are truly playing for this season, and in 2025
The NCAA denied the UAC's request to be classified as a single-sport FCS football conference, [7] but continued to recognize the organization as an extension of the WAC-ASUN Challenge. The Big South Conference and Ohio Valley Conference also merged their football leagues effective in 2023, but without attempting to create a new independent ...