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. There will be 124 FCS programs for the 2017 season. Conference affiliations are current for the 2017 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.
FCS programs
Alabama
- Alabama A&M University
- Alabama State University
- Jacksonville State University
- University of North Alabama (2018â€"future)
- Samford University
Arizona
- Northern Arizona University
Arkansas
- University of Arkansasâ€"Pine Bluff
- University of Central Arkansas
California
- California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
- California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State)
- University of San Diego
- University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
Colorado
- University of Northern Colorado
Connecticut
- Central Connecticut State University
- Sacred Heart University
- Yale University
Delaware
- University of Delaware
- Delaware State University
Florida
- Bethune-Cookman University
- Florida A&M University
- Jacksonville University
- Stetson University
Georgia
- Kennesaw State University
- Mercer University
- Savannah State University
Idaho
- University of Idaho (2018â€"future)
- Idaho State University
Illinois
- Eastern Illinois University
- Illinois State University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Southern Illinois)
- Western Illinois University
Indiana
- Butler University
- Indiana State University
- Valparaiso University
Iowa
- Drake University
- University of Northern Iowa
Kentucky
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Morehead State University
- Murray State University
Louisiana
- Grambling State University
- McNeese State University
- Nicholls State University
- Northwestern State University
- Southeastern Louisiana University
- Southern University and A&M College
Maine
- University of Maine
Maryland
- Morgan State University
- Towson University
Massachusetts
- Harvard University
- College of the Holy Cross
Mississippi
- Alcorn State University
- Jackson State University
- Mississippi Valley State University
Missouri
- Missouri State University
- Southeast Missouri State University
Montana
- University of Montana
- Montana State University
New Hampshire
- Dartmouth College
- University of New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Monmouth University
- Princeton University
New York
- University at Albany, SUNY
- Colgate University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Fordham University
- Marist College
- Stony Brook University
- Wagner College
North Carolina
- Campbell University
- Davidson College
- Elon University
- Gardner-Webb University
- North Carolina A&T State University
- North Carolina Central University
- Western Carolina University
North Dakota
- University of North Dakota
- North Dakota State University
Ohio
- University of Dayton
- Youngstown State University
Oregon
- Portland State University
Pennsylvania
- Bucknell University
- Duquesne University
- Lafayette College
- Lehigh University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Morris University
- Saint Francis University
- Villanova University
Rhode Island
- Brown University
- Bryant University
- University of Rhode Island
South Carolina
- Charleston Southern University
- The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
- Furman University
- Presbyterian University
- South Carolina State University
- Wofford College
South Dakota
- University of South Dakota
- South Dakota State University
Tennessee
- Austin Peay State University
- East Tennessee State University
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- University of Tennessee at Martin
- Tennessee State University
- Tennessee Technological University
Texas
- Abilene Christian University
- Houston Baptist University
- University of the Incarnate Word
- Lamar University
- Prairie View A&M University
- Sam Houston State University
- Stephen F. Austin State University
- Texas Southern University
Utah
- Southern Utah University
- Weber State University
Virginia
- Hampton University
- James Madison University
- Liberty University
- Norfolk State University
- University of Richmond
- Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
- College of William & Mary
Washington
- Eastern Washington University
Washington, D.C.
- Georgetown University
- Howard University
Future FCS programs
- Notes
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See also
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums
- List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division II football programs
- List of NCAA Division III football programs
- List of NAIA football programs
- List of community college football programs
- List of NCAA Institutions with club football teams
- List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football
- List of defunct college football teams
References
External links
- NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Sponsorship
