List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football
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This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I schools that have never sponsored gridiron football as a varsity sport.
Sprint football, a weight-restricted variant of the sport, has never been overseen by any major national college sports governing body. Schools that have only fielded sprint football teams are considered "non-football" by the NCAA.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Bellarmine added sprint football, a form of the sport with severe limits on player weight that is not governed by the NCAA, in the 2022–23 school year.[1]
- ^ a b Grand Canyon and Seattle join the West Coast Conference in July 2025.
- ^ In 2024, the Indiana University and Purdue University systems dissolved IUPUI, replacing it with separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions. The athletic program transferred to the new IU Indianapolis. The athletic branding of the new institution is IU Indy.[2]
- ^ Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2023. Full D-I membership in 2027.
- ^ a b c These schools had football teams when they were junior colleges, but none have since becoming universities.
- ^ Purdue Fort Wayne inherited its athletic program from the former Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), which was dissolved on July 1, 2018. Degree programs in health sciences became exclusive to the IU system as Indiana University Fort Wayne, with all other degree programs becoming exclusive to the Purdue system as Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Shortly before the split became official, PFW announced that the athletic program would change its branding from "Fort Wayne" to "Purdue Fort Wayne".
- ^ a b Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2022. Full D-I membership in 2026.
- ^ Often referred to by media as "Queens (NC)" because of the existence of Queens College in New York City, which remained in D-II after the North Carolina school moved to D-I in 2022.
- ^ The campus has an Evansville mailing address, but lies outside the city limits in Perry Township, a subdivision of Vanderburgh County that includes a small part of Evansville proper.
- ^ In July 2015, UTRGV, in full the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, entered full operation after the merger of the two University of Texas System campuses in the Rio Grande Valley, the University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) and University of Texas at Brownsville.[3] Nearly a year before the merger, the UT System announced that UTRGV would inherit the UTPA athletic program,[4] and later unveiled the new school's nickname as Vaqueros.
- ^ In January 2021, UTRGV explored the addition of a football program. The university has since confirmed that it will play an exhibition schedule in 2024 before starting full varsity play in 2025. Football will compete in that conference, starting in the 2025 season.[5]
- ^ UTRGV has multiple campuses throughout its service area, but its athletic program is based from the former UTPA main campus in Edinburg.
- ^ UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 and began full operation in 2015, but inherited its athletic program from UTPA, which was founded in 1927 as the two-year Edinburg College.
See also
[edit]- List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
- List of defunct college football teams
- List of defunct men's college ice hockey teams
- List of defunct college basketball teams
- List of NCAA institutions with club football teams
References
[edit]- ^ "Bellarmine to become founding member of Midwest Sprint Football League" (Press release). Bellarmine Knights. June 21, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ^ Tryon, Matthew (August 12, 2022). "What's next for IUPUI athletics? Staying in the Horizon League and 'tough decisions'". Indianapolis Star. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
- ^ "Project South Texas: Timeline". University of Texas System.
- ^ "Project South Texas: Ask a Question". University of Texas System. July 30, 2014.
- ^ Jeyarajah, Shehan (January 14, 2021). "UTRGV exploring adding FCS football". Dave Campbell's Texas Football. Retrieved January 22, 2021.