NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision


































NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season
NCAA logo.svg
Sport American football
Founded 1978
No. of teams
129 (+1 transitional)
Country United States
TV partner(s) Various
Official website www.ncaa.com/sports/football/fbs

The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the top level of college football in the United States. The FBS is the most competitive subdivision of NCAA Division I, which itself consists of the largest and most competitive schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As of 2018, there are 10 conferences and 130 schools in FBS.


College football is very popular throughout much of the United States, and the top schools generate tens of millions of dollars in yearly revenue.[1][2] Top FBS teams draw tens of thousands of fans to games, and the ten largest American stadiums by capacity all host FBS teams or games. College athletes are not paid, but colleges are allowed to provide players with non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books.


Unlike other NCAA divisions and subdivisions, the NCAA does not officially award an FBS football national championship, nor does it sanction a playoff tournament to determine such a champion on the field. Instead, organizations such as the Associated Press and AFCA have historically sought to rank the teams and crown a national champion, by taking a vote of sports writers and coaches, respectively. In place of such a playoff, various cities across the United States hold their own post-season contests, called bowl games, in which they traditionally invite teams to participate in them. Historically, these bowl games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating teams. However, in the modern era they are considered the de facto post-season. There have been agreements in recent decades (such as the Bowl Coalition from 1992 to 1994, the Bowl Alliance from 1995 to 1997, the Bowl Championship Series from 1998 to 2013, and the College Football Playoff from 2014 to the present) by the premier FBS conferences and bowl games to organize matchups so that the FBS national championship is decided on the field.




Contents






  • 1 Overview


  • 2 Schedule and bowl games


  • 3 History


  • 4 The FBS on television


  • 5 Teams and conferences


    • 5.1 Conferences


      • 5.1.1 History


      • 5.1.2 Current conferences




    • 5.2 Teams transitioning to the FBS




  • 6 Realignment


  • 7 Awards


  • 8 Maps of teams


    • 8.1 2018 season


    • 8.2 Historical


      • 8.2.1 1991


      • 8.2.2 1956


      • 8.2.3 1927




    • 8.3 Schools that have transitioned to the FBS




  • 9 See also


  • 10 Footnotes


  • 11 References





Overview




Number of FBS teams per state/territory as of 2014:[3]

  Six or more FBS schools in the state

  Five

  Four

  Three

  Two

  One

  No FBS schools



The FBS is the highest level of college football in the United States, and FBS players make up the vast majority of the players picked in the NFL Draft.[4] For every sport but football, the NCAA divides schools into three major divisions: NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division III. However, in football, Division I is further divided into two sub-divisions: the Bowl Subdivision, abbreviated as the FBS, and the Championship Subdivision, abbreviated as the FCS.[5] Divisions are themselves further divided up into conferences, which are groupings of schools that play each other in contention for a conference championship. The FBS currently has ten conferences, which are often divided into the "Power Five conferences" and the less prominent "Group of Five".


Although FCS programs can draw thousands of fans per game, many FCS schools attempt to join the FBS in hopes of increased revenue, corporate sponsorship, alumni donations, prestige, and national exposure.[6] However, FBS programs also face increased expenses in regards to staff salaries, facility improvements, and scholarships.[6] The athletic departments of many FBS schools lose money every year, and these athletic departments must rely on subsidies from the rest of the university.[7][8] The 2014 decision by UAB (an FBS program) to discontinue the football program generated national headlines,[8][9] and other FBS programs have also considered discontinuing their football program.[10] In many states, the highest-paid public employee is the head coach of an FBS team.[11] FBS schools are limited to a total of 85 football players receiving financial assistance.[12] Nearly all FBS schools that are not on NCAA probation give 85 full scholarships.[citation needed]


In order to retain FBS membership, schools must meet several requirements.[13] FBS schools must have an average home attendance of at least 15,000 (over a rolling two-year period).[13] An FBS school must sponsor a minimum of 16 varsity intercollegiate teams (including football), with at least six men's or coeducational teams and at least eight all-female teams.[13] Across all sports, each FBS school must offer at least 200 athletic scholarships (or spend at least $4 million on athletic scholarships) per year, and FBS football teams must provide at least 90% of the maximum number of football scholarships (which is currently 85).[13]



Schedule and bowl games



The FBS season begins in late August or early September and ends in January with the College Football Playoff National Championship game. Most FBS teams play 12 regular season games per year, with eight or nine of those games coming against conference opponents.[14] As of the 2018 season, all conferences will hold a conference championship game;[15] the Big 12 reinstated its championship game in 2017, and the Sun Belt will hold its first championship game in 2018. Between conference games, non-conference games, a conference championship game, and one bowl game, a top FBS team could play 14 games in a season. A team that plays in the national championship game could play up to 15 games, as any team playing in the national championship must first win a playoff semifinal bowl game. The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors[16] and teams that play at Hawaii[17] get a special exemption and are allowed to play a thirteenth regular season game in order to defray travel costs,[14] so an FBS team that plays 13 regular season games, a conference championship game, a semifinal bowl game, and in the national championship game could theoretically play 16 games in a season.































Number of bowl games[18]
Year
Bowls
Teams in bowls[19]
1968
11
N/A
1984
18
~30%
1997
20
~35%
2017
40[a]
60.5%[b]

For non-conference regular season games, FBS teams are free to schedule match-ups against any other FBS team, regardless of conference. A small number of FBS teams are independent, and have total control over their own schedule. Non-conference games are scheduled by mutual agreement and often involve "home and homes" (where teams alternate as hosts) and long-established rivalries. A 2014 study found that teams from the stronger conferences frequently play non-conference games against teams from the weaker conferences or, occasionally, against FCS teams.[20] FBS teams are free to schedule up to forty percent of their games against FCS teams,[13] but FBS teams can only use one win per season against an FCS team for the purposes of bowl eligibility. Additionally, the FCS opponent must have averaged at least 90% of the FCS limit of 63 scholarship equivalents over a rolling two-year period.[21][c] An FBS team must schedule a total of five home games per year; for the purposes of scheduling, a "home game" must take place at a venue in which the team plays 50% of its "home games", although a team is allowed to count one neutral-site game against an FBS team toward the "home game" requirement.[23] FBS-FCS games, known as "money games," are often home games for the FBS team, and victories by FCS teams are usually considered to be upsets.[24] FCS teams receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for their participation in these games.[24]









































New Year's Six Bowls
Bowl
Location
Est.

Rose Bowl

Pasadena, CA
1902

Orange Bowl

Miami Gardens, FL
1935

Sugar Bowl

New Orleans, LA
1935

Cotton Bowl

Arlington, TX
1937

Peach Bowl

Atlanta, GA
1968

Fiesta Bowl

Glendale, AZ
1971

The Football Bowl Subdivision gets its name from the bowl games that many FBS teams play at the end of the year, although other college divisions also have their own bowl games. FBS bowl games are played at the end of the season in December or January, and collectively generate over $400 million per year as of 2012.[25] For the 2017–18 bowl season, there were 40 bowl games. In order to be bowl eligible, an FBS team must have a winning record. In certain cases, 5-7 and 6-7 teams can also be selected to bowls, usually to fill bowl vacancies.[26]


Many bowls have an established conference tie-in; for example, the Camping World Bowl provides a match-up between teams from ACC and the Big 12. A small number of long-established bowls played a major role in the Bowl Championship Series, which was used to select the national champion until 2015, and these bowls continue to play a major role in the College Football Playoff. Under the playoff, there are six major bowls, known as the New Year's Six, with automatic bids going to the conference champions of the Power Five conferences and the top-ranked member of the "Group of Five." Two of these bowls serve as semi-final games to the College Football Playoff National Championship game. Conferences receive millions of dollars for each school that appears in the playoff, and appearances in other bowls are also quite lucrative.[27] In addition to the regular bowls, some post-season bowls, such as the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, match up teams of all-stars and NFL Draft entrants.



History

































































































NCAA Football Average Attendance
Conf.
1983[28]
1993[28]
2003[29]
2014[30]

SEC
64,842
62,789
74,059
77,694

Big Ten
67,471
63,535
70,198
66,869

Big 12
-
-
56,362
58,102

Pac-12
47,248
47,919
51,608
52,702

ACC
42,608
44,056
51,938
50,291

AAC[d]
-
38,039
46,870
29,193

MW
-
-
32,809
25,254

C-USA
-
-
32,346
20,455

Sun Belt
-
-
14,352
18,294

MAC
17,351
14,252
17,820
15,431
FBS
42,162
41,281
44,877
44,603
FCS
10,844
8,599
7,739
8,310


College football has been played for over one hundred years, but the game and the organizational structure of college football have evolved significantly during that time. The first college football game was played in 1869, but the game continued to develop during the late 19th and early 20th century. During this period, Walter Camp pioneered the concept of a line of scrimmage, the system of downs, and the College Football All-America Team.[31] The 1902 Rose Bowl was the first bowl game in college football history, and the event began to be held annually starting with the 1916 Rose Bowl. In the 1930s, other bowl games came into existence, including the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl Classic, and the Orange Bowl. The 1906 college football season was the first season played under the IAAUS (which would later change its name to the NCAA) and the first season in which the forward pass was legal. The IAAUS had formed after President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to several deaths that had occurred during football games, requested that colleges find ways to make football a safer sport.[32] In 1935, the Heisman Trophy was presented for the first time; the award is generally considered to be college football's most prestigious individual award.[33] In 1965, the NCAA voted to allow the platoon system, in which different players played on offense and defense; teams had previously experimented with the concept in the 1940s.[34] In 1968, the NCAA began allowing freshmen to compete in games; freshmen had previously been required to take a redshirt year.[35] In 1975, after a growth of "grants-in-aid" (scholarships given for athletic rather than academic or need-based reasons), the NCAA voted to limit the number of athletic scholarships each school could offer.[36] In 1968, the NCAA required all teams to identify as members of either the University Division (for larger schools) or the College Division (for smaller schools), and in 1973, the NCAA divided into three divisions.[37] At the urging of several larger schools seeking increased autonomy and commonality, Division I-A was formed prior to the 1978 season; the remaining teams in Division I formed the Football Championship Subdivision or FCS (then known as Division I-AA).[38] In 1981, members of the College Football Association attempted to create a fourth division consisting solely of the most competitive schools, but this effort was defeated.[39] In the 1992 season, the SEC split into divisions and played the first FBS conference championship game. The Big 12 and Western Athletic Conference did the same for the 1996 season, and most conferences eventually adopted divisions and championship games.


The NCAA does not officially award an FBS football championship,[40] but several teams have claimed national championships. Other organizations have also sought to rank the teams and crown a national champion. The Dickinson System and other methods were formed in the early 20th century to select the best team in the country, and the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll began rankings teams in the middle of the 20th century. In many seasons, selectors such as the AP and the Coaches Poll designated different teams as national champions. Often, more than one team would finish undefeated, as the top teams were not guaranteed to play each other during the regular season or in bowl games. In 1992, five major conferences established the Bowl Coalition in order to determine the FBS champion. In 1998, the two remaining major conferences joined with the other five conferences to form the Bowl Championship Series. The BCS used a rankings system to match up the top two teams in the BCS National Championship Game.[41] However, even the BCS era saw split national championships, as in 2003 the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll selected different national champions. The College Football Playoff, with a four-team field, replaced the BCS starting with the 2014 season.



The FBS on television



College football was first broadcast on radio in 1921, and first broadcast on television in 1939.[42] Television became profitable for both schools and the NCAA, which tightly controlled the airing of games in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.[43] The NCAA as limited each football team to six television appearances over a two-year period.[43] The 1984 Supreme Court case NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma granted television rights to individual schools as opposed to the NCAA and allowed teams to televise all of their games.[44] After a period during which FBS schools negotiated collectively under the College Football Association, Notre Dame's 1991 television contract ushered in an era in which schools and conferences negotiate their own television contracts.[38][45] This new era of television led to several waves of conference realignment, most notably in 1996, 2005, and the early 2010s.[46] FBS games continue to be a major draw on television, as over 26 million people watched the 2014 BCS National Championship Game.[47]


National networks such as CBS, ABC, NBC, several ESPN networks, several Fox networks have all covered the FBS, as have several regional and local networks. As conferences negotiate their own television deals, each conference is affiliated with a network that airs its home games. In the mid-2000s, college and conferences began to create their own television networks;[48] such networks include the Big Ten Network, BYUtv, the Longhorn Network, and the Pac-12 Network. In 2012, college football games drew over 400 million viewers.[49]



Teams and conferences



Conferences




































FBS teams and conferences
Year
Conferences
Teams
1980
13[50]
138
1990
9[51]
107
2000
11[52]
116
2010
11[53]
120
2019
10

130


History


The Big Ten (then popularly known as the Western Conference) was founded in 1896, after which several other schools joined together to form conferences, including the Pacific Coast Conference, the MVIAA, the Southwest Conference, the Southern Conference, the Mountain States Conference (also known as the Skyline Conference), and the Border Conference. In 1928, six schools seceded from the MVIAA to form the Big Six Conference, which later expanded to the Big Eight in 1957; the remaining schools formed the Missouri Valley Conference. In 1932, several Southern schools formed the SEC after breaking away from the Southern Conference, and in 1953 several more schools seceded from the Southern Conference to form the ACC. In 1946, several Midwestern schools formed the MAC. Several elite Northeastern schools had formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League in 1901, and its members (plus Brown University, not an EIBL member at the time) signed the Ivy Group Agreement, which governed football competition between the signatories, in 1945; the Ivy League was formally founded in 1954, when the agreement was extended to cover all sports. In 1959, the Pacific Coast Conference dissolved, and most of its former members formed the new Athletic Association of Western Universities, which became the Pac-8 when more former PCC members joined. In 1962, several schools from the Mountain States Conference and the Border Conference formed the Western Athletic Conference. In 1969, the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA), later known as the Big West Conference, was formed by several Division II California schools that sought to join Division I.


Division I separated into Division I-A (the predecessor to the FBS) and I-AA (predecessor of the FCS) prior to the 1978 season. At that time, there were several independent I-A schools and twelve Division I-A conferences: the Southeastern Conference (SEC), Big 10, Pacific-10 (Pac-10), Big 8, Southwest Conference (SWC), Western Athletic Conference (WAC), PCAA (which later changed its name to the Big West), Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Mid-American Conference (MAC), and the Ivy League. The Ivy League and the Southern Conference left for Division I-AA prior to the 1982 season, while the Missouri Valley Conference stopped sponsoring football prior to the 1985 season. In 1991, the Big East recruited several independents and began sponsoring football, becoming a major conference. In 1996, Conference USA (C-USA), formed the previous year by the merger of the non-football Metro and Great Midwest Conferences, also began sponsoring football. That same year, the Southwest Conference dissolved, and four of its former members joined with the Big 8 to form the Big 12 Conference. In 1999, eight schools broke away from the WAC to form the Mountain West Conference (MW). Prior to the 2000 season, the Big West stopped sponsoring football. The Sun Belt Conference began sponsoring football in 2001. After periods of conference realignment in 2005 and the early 2010s that saw the expansion of the ACC, Big 10, SEC, and Pac-10 (which changed its name to the Pac-12), the WAC reorganized as a non-football conference and the Big East split into the American Athletic Conference and a new non-football conference that retained the Big East name.[54]



Current conferences



Most of the 130 FBS schools are members of an FBS conference, but there are also a small number of independent schools. Since the Western Athletic Conference discontinued football sponsorship prior to the 2013 season, there have been ten conferences in the FBS. All of the FBS conferences have between ten and fourteen members, although independent Notre Dame has a scheduling agreement with the fourteen-member ACC. The ten conferences are split into two groups for the purposes of the College Football Playoff. The "Power Five conferences" consist of most of the largest and best-known college athletic programs in the country. A school from one of the Power Five conferences won every BCS National Championship Game (which operated from 1999 to 2014), and has won every College Football Playoff National Championship. The remaining five conferences are known as the "Group of Five."[55] Any conference may split its teams into two divisions,[56] and only the Big 12 Conference does not use divisions. As of the 2018 season, all conferences hold a championship game that determines the conference champion. The Sun Belt was the last conference to launch a championship game, as well as the most recent to split into divisions for football, with both the title game and the divisional alignment debuting in 2018. That conference chose to form football divisions despite having only 10 football members.[15]



































































































Conference
Nickname
Founded
Football
Members
Sports
Headquarters

American Athletic Conference
The American (official)
AAC (informal)
1979[e]
12[f]
22

Providence, Rhode Island

Atlantic Coast Conference **
ACC
1953
14[g]
26

Greensboro, North Carolina

Big 12 Conference **
Big 12
1996
10
21

Irving, Texas

Big Ten Conference **
Big Ten, B1G
1896
14
28

Rosemont, Illinois

Conference USA
C-USA
1995[h]
14
19

Irving, Texas

Division I FBS Independents[i]


6



Mid-American Conference
MAC
1946
12
23

Cleveland, Ohio

Mountain West Conference
MW (official)
MWC (informal)
1999
12[j]
19

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Pac-12 Conference **
Pac-12
1915[k]
12
24

San Francisco, California

Southeastern Conference **
SEC
1932
14
20

Birmingham, Alabama

Sun Belt Conference
Sun Belt
1976
10[l]
18

New Orleans, Louisiana

(** "Big Five" or "Power Five" conferences with guaranteed berths in the "access bowls" associated with the College Football Playoff)


Notes




  1. ^ Includes the College Football Playoff National Championship, which involves the winners of two semifinal bowl games.


  2. ^ Based on 78 teams qualifying for bowl games.


  3. ^ While the Ivy League prohibits athletic scholarships across all sports, the Pioneer Football League prohibits scholarships only in football, and Georgetown chooses not to offer football scholarships, wins against such schools may potentially count toward bowl eligibility. NCAA rules interpretations allow academic aid to count toward the 90% requirement. This issue came up in the 2017 season when Florida State was thought to be bowl-ineligible because one of its six wins that season was over Delaware State, a school that did not meet the 90% requirement with football-related aid. However, once academic aid was counted, Delaware State met the threshold and FSU played in its bowl game.[22]


  4. ^ Includes numbers for the Big East in 1993 and 2003.


  5. ^ The conference was founded in 1979 as the original Big East Conference. It renamed itself the American Athletic Conference following a 2013 split along football lines. The non-FBS schools of the original conference left to form a new conference that purchased the Big East name, while the FBS schools continued to operate under the old Big East's charter and structure. The American also inherited the old Big East's Bowl Championship Series berth for the 2013 season, the last for the BCS.


  6. ^ Navy is a football-only member, and Wichita State is a full member that does not sponsor football.


  7. ^ Notre Dame is a full member except in football, in which it remains independent. It has committed to play five games each season against ACC opponents, and to play each other ACC member at least once every three years.


  8. ^ The conference was founded in 1995, with football competition starting in 1996.


  9. ^ Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.


  10. ^ Since 2012, Hawaii has been a football-only associate member, with most of its remaining teams in the non-football Big West Conference.


  11. ^ The charter of the Pac-12 dates only to the formation of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. However, the Pac-12 claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which was founded in 1915 and began competition in 1916, as its own. Of the nine members of the PCC at the time of its demise in June 1959, only Idaho never joined the Pac-12. The PCC's berth in the Rose Bowl passed to the AAWU.


  12. ^ The Sun Belt has 12 full members, but two of them, Little Rock and UT Arlington, do not sponsor football.




Teams transitioning to the FBS


Liberty University began the FBS transition process on July 1, 2017. The NCAA granted the school a waiver from its normal transition rules that require an invitation from an FBS conference before beginning the transition. The Flames played in the Big South Conference in 2017 but were not eligible for the FCS playoffs. For 2018 and beyond, the Flames became an FBS independent. The school initially intended to remain a Big South member in other sports until it received an invitation to an FBS conference,[57] but instead joined the non-football ASUN Conference in 2018.[58]


The most recent school to complete an FBS transition is Coastal Carolina University, which completed its FBS transition for the 2018 season. The Chanticleers' transition began with the school's move from the Big South to the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016. Coastal competed as a non-football Sun Belt member in 2016–17, with the football team playing the 2016 season as an FCS independent. The school then joined Sun Belt football in 2017, playing a full conference schedule.[59]



Realignment


The FBS has experienced several realignments since its formation in 1978, with many teams changing conferences, dropping out of the FBS, or moving up from the FCS. In 1982, the size of the division was cut considerably, and the Southern Conference and the Ivy League were demoted to the FCS.[60] In 1985, the Missouri Valley Conference stopped sponsoring football.[61] In the 1980s and 1990s, several independents joined conferences, dropped football, or joined the FCS. In the 1996 NCAA conference realignment, the Southwest Conference dissolved, and four Texas teams from that conference joined with the Big 8 schools to form the Big 12 Conference. The Western Athletic Conference expanded to sixteen members, but half of the schools left in 1999 to form the Mountain West Conference. Conference USA (C-USA) formed from a merger of the Metro Conference and the Great Midwest Conference, two conferences which had not sponsored football. The Big West stopped sponsoring football after the 2000 season, and was essentially replaced by the Sun Belt Conference, which added former Big West members and began sponsoring football in 2001. In the mid-2000s, the Big East added former basketball-only member Connecticut, while Temple left the conference (before eventually returning in 2013). During another phase of realignment in 2005, three schools jumped from the Big East to the ACC. The Big East responded by adding schools from Conference USA.[61]


College football underwent another major conference realignment in the first half of the 2010s. Members of the Big East left the conference to join the Big 12 and ACC. The Big 12 lost members to the SEC, the Pac-12, and the Big Ten, while the Big Ten also gained one former ACC member. The remaining members of the Big East split into two conferences: the American Athletic Conference ("The American") and a new conference that assumed the Big East name but does not sponsor football. The American added several schools from C-USA, but lost one school each to the ACC and Big Ten after its first season. In turn, C-USA added FCS schools and schools from the Sun Belt Conference. The Sun Belt Conference replenished its membership by adding FCS schools and schools from the Western Athletic Conference. The Mountain West lost schools to the Big 12, Pac-12 and the FBS independent ranks, and added several schools from the WAC. After several defections, the WAC dropped its sponsorship of football.[61]


The early-2010s realignment cycle also affected the FBS independent ranks. BYU left the MW in 2011 for football independence and the non-football West Coast Conference. In 2013, Idaho and New Mexico State, the last two football-sponsoring schools in the WAC, became FBS independents, but would return to their former football home of the Sun Belt Conference as football-only members the following year. Also in 2013, Notre Dame became a full but non-football member of the ACC, entering into a scheduling agreement with that conference that calls for the Fighting Irish football team to play five games each season against ACC schools, and to play each other ACC school at least once every three years. Finally, in 2015, Navy became a football-only member of The American, ending more than a century of football independence.[61]


Realignment has continued to this day, though at a considerably lower level. The 2016 season saw FCS Coastal Carolina join the Sun Belt Conference for non-football sports while beginning a transition to FBS football; the football team joined the Sun Belt in 2017. That season was also the last for Idaho and New Mexico State as Sun Belt football members. After 2017, New Mexico State returned to independent status, while Idaho downgraded to FCS football—becoming the first program ever to voluntarily do so—and added football to its all-sports membership in the Big Sky Conference. Also in 2016, UMass went independent after turning down an offer of full membership in the Mid-American Conference.



Awards



Several awards are given each year to players and coaches in the FBS. Although all college football players are eligible for many of these awards (such as the Heisman Trophy), FBS players usually win these awards, and other awards (such as the Walter Payton Award) exist to honor players in other divisions and the FCS. In addition to the national awards listed below, FBS conferences also have their own awards, and several organizations release a yearly College Football All-America Team. In 1951, the National Football Foundation established the College Football Hall of Fame. Notable individual awards include:



  • Best/most valuable player: Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award, Archie Griffin Award, AP Player of the Year, SN Player of the Year

  • Defensive player of the year: Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Lott Trophy

  • Position awards: Dave Rimington Trophy (Center), Davey O'Brien Award and Manning Award (Quarterback), Dick Butkus Award (Linebacker), Doak Walker Award (Running back), Fred Biletnikoff Award (Wide receiver), Jim Thorpe Award (Defensive back), John Mackey Award (Tight end), Lombardi Award (Lineman/linebacker), Lou Groza Award (Placekicker), Outland Trophy (Interior lineman), Ray Guy Award (Punter), Ted Hendricks Award (Defensive end), Jet Award (Return Specialist)

  • Non-positional playing awards: Paul Hornung Award (most versatile player), Burlsworth Trophy (top player who began his college career as a walk-on)

  • Coaching awards:

    • Head coaches: AFCA Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, SN Coach of the Year, Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award, Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, Home Depot Coach of the Year Award, AP Coach of the Year

    • Assistants: Broyles Award, AFCA Assistant Coach of the Year



  • Other awards: William V. Campbell Trophy, Wuerffel Trophy, Rudy Award, Amos Alonzo Stagg Award, Walter Camp Man of the Year, Theodore Roosevelt Award


The NCAA does not officially name a national champion, but several other organizations name national champions and all conferences participate in the College Football Playoff in order to determine a champion. The winner of the College Football Playoff receives the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy. The AP awards the AP National Championship Trophy, while the American Football Coaches Association awards the AFCA National Championship Trophy. The AFCA trophy was previously awarded to the winner of the BCS National Championship Game (a predecessor of the College Football Playoff National Championship game), which operated from 1999 to 2014. The Football Writers Association of America awards the Grantland Rice Trophy, and the National Football Foundation awards the MacArthur Bowl. Since the disputed end of the 2003 season, the various organizations have been able to agree on a single national champion.



Maps of teams



2018 season







2018 Map of Teams



NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is located in the US

Notre Dame

Notre Dame



Army

Army



BYU

BYU



Liberty

Liberty



NM St.

NM St.



UMASS

UMASS



La. Tech

La. Tech



S. Miss.

S. Miss.



Rice

Rice



UTEP

UTEP



Charlotte

Charlotte



FIU

FIU



FAU

FAU



Marshall

Marshall



MTSU

MTSU



N. Texas

N. Texas



Old Dominion

Old Dominion



UAB

UAB



UTSA

UTSA



W. Kentucky

W. Kentucky



Louisiana

Louisiana



Ark. St.

Ark. St.



App. St.

App. St.



Coastal Carolina

Coastal Carolina



Georgia Southern

Georgia Southern



Georgia St.

Georgia St.



ULM

ULM



S. Alabama

S. Alabama



Texas St.

Texas St.



Troy

Troy



Akron

Akron



NIU

NIU



BGSU

BGSU



Central Mich.

Central Mich.



Miami (OH)

Miami (OH)



Toledo

Toledo



W. Mich.

W. Mich.



Ball St.

Ball St.



E. Mich.

E. Mich.



Ohio

Ohio



Kent St.

Kent St.



Buffalo

Buffalo



Temple

Temple



SMU

SMU



Houston

Houston



Navy

Navy



Tulane

Tulane



Memphis

Memphis



Cincinnati

Cincinnati



Tulsa

Tulsa



E. Carolina

E. Carolina



UCF

UCF



USF

USF



UCONN

UCONN



Arizona

Arizona



Arizona St.

Arizona St.



Cal

Cal



UCLA

UCLA



Oregon

Oregon



Oregon St.

Oregon St.



USC

USC



Stanford

Stanford



Washington

Washington



Washington St.

Washington St.



Colorado

Colorado



Utah

Utah



TAMU

TAMU



Arkansas

Arkansas



Florida

Florida



Kentucky

Kentucky



Georgia

Georgia



Tenn.

Tenn.



Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt



Alabama

Alabama



Auburn

Auburn



LSU

LSU



Ole Miss

Ole Miss



Miss. St.

Miss. St.



Missouri

Missouri



S. Carolina

S. Carolina



Penn State

Penn State



Rutgers

Rutgers



Nebraska

Nebraska



Indiana

Indiana



Mich.

Mich.



MSU

MSU



Ohio St.

Ohio St.



Illinois

Illinois



Iowa

Iowa



Minnesota

Minnesota



Northwestern

Northwestern



Purdue

Purdue



Wisconsin

Wisconsin



Maryland

Maryland



Iowa State

Iowa State



Kansas

Kansas



Kansas St.

Kansas St.



Oklahoma

Oklahoma



Oklahoma St.

Oklahoma St.



Texas Tech

Texas Tech



Texas

Texas



Baylor

Baylor



TCU

TCU



WVU

WVU



Ga. Tech

Ga. Tech



WFU

WFU



Virginia

Virginia



NCSU

NCSU



UNC

UNC



Duke

Duke



Clemson

Clemson



Boston College

Boston College



Syracuse

Syracuse



Pitt

Pitt



Miami

Miami



Va. Tech

Va. Tech



Florida St.

Florida St.



Louisville

Louisville



San Diego St.

San Diego St.



Air Force

Air Force



Wyoming

Wyoming



Colorado St.

Colorado St.



New Mexico

New Mexico



Fresno St.

Fresno St.



San Jose St.

San Jose St.



Utah St.

Utah St.



UNLV

UNLV



Boise St.

Boise St.



Nevada

Nevada




This map shows Division I FBS during the 2018 season. Not shown: Hawaii (Mountain West)


 





Historical



1991







1991 Map of Teams



NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is located in the US

South Carolina

South Carolina



Florida St.

Florida St.



Penn State

Penn State



Notre Dame

Notre Dame



Louisville

Louisville



Tulsa

Tulsa



E. Carolina

E. Carolina



La. Tech

La. Tech



Akron

Akron



Memphis

Memphis



Army

Army



Cincinnati

Cincinnati



S. Miss.

S. Miss.



USL

USL



NIU

NIU



Ark. St.

Ark. St.



Navy

Navy



Tulane

Tulane



Houston

Houston



Texas Tech

Texas Tech



SMU

SMU



TAMU

TAMU



Texas

Texas



Rice

Rice



Baylor

Baylor



TCU

TCU



Arkansas

Arkansas



Arizona

Arizona



Arizona St.

Arizona St.



Cal

Cal



UCLA

UCLA



Oregon

Oregon



Oregon St.

Oregon St.



USC

USC



Stanford

Stanford



Washington

Washington



Washington St.

Washington St.



Florida

Florida



Kentucky

Kentucky



Georgia

Georgia



Tenn.

Tenn.



Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt



Alabama

Alabama



Auburn

Auburn



LSU

LSU



Ole Miss

Ole Miss



Miss. St.

Miss. St.



Boston College

Boston College



Syracuse

Syracuse



Pitt

Pitt



Miami

Miami



Rutgers

Rutgers



WVU

WVU



Va. Tech

Va. Tech



Temple

Temple



Indiana

Indiana



Mich.

Mich.



MSU

MSU



Ohio St.

Ohio St.



Illinois

Illinois



Iowa

Iowa



Minnesota

Minnesota



Northwestern

Northwestern



Purdue

Purdue



Wisconsin

Wisconsin



Colorado

Colorado



Iowa State

Iowa State



Kansas

Kansas



Kansas St.

Kansas St.



Missouri

Missouri



Nebraska

Nebraska



Oklahoma

Oklahoma



Oklahoma St.

Oklahoma St.



Ga. Tech

Ga. Tech



Wake Forest

Wake Forest



Virginia

Virginia



NCSU

NCSU



UNC

UNC



Duke

Duke



Clemson

Clemson



Maryland

Maryland



BYU

BYU



San Diego St.

San Diego St.



Air Force

Air Force



Utah

Utah



Wyoming

Wyoming



UTEP

UTEP



Colorado St.

Colorado St.



New Mexico

New Mexico



Fresno St.

Fresno St.



San Jose St.

San Jose St.



Utah St.

Utah St.



Pacific

Pacific



UNLV

UNLV



Long Beach St.

Long Beach St.



NM St.

NM St.



Cal St. Fullerton

Cal St. Fullerton



BGSU

BGSU



Central Mich.

Central Mich.



Miami (OH)

Miami (OH)



Toledo

Toledo



W. Mich.

W. Mich.



Ball St.

Ball St.



E. Mich.

E. Mich.



Ohio

Ohio



Kent St.

Kent St.




This map shows Division I-A in 1991, when the Big East was formed and one year before the start of the Bowl Coalition. Hawaii (a member of the WAC) is not shown. Independents that joined an AQ conference by the BCS's inaugural 1998 season (plus Notre Dame, which also automatically qualified for the BCS under certain conditions) are represented by black circles, while the remaining independents are represented by silver pogs.


 





1956







1956 Map of Teams



NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is located in the US

Florida St.

Florida St.



Penn State

Penn State



Notre Dame

Notre Dame



Louisville

Louisville



Army

Army



Cincinnati

Cincinnati



N. Texas

N. Texas



Navy

Navy



Syracuse

Syracuse



Pitt

Pitt



Miami

Miami



Pacific

Pacific



Holy Cross

Holy Cross



Boston College

Boston College



Villanova

Villanova



Colgate

Colgate



Dayton

Dayton



Drake

Drake



Rutgers

Rutgers



Texas Tech

Texas Tech



Boston U.

Boston U.



San Jose St.

San Jose St.



Marquette

Marquette



Brown

Brown



Columbia

Columbia



Cornell

Cornell



Dartmouth

Dartmouth



Harvard

Harvard



Penn

Penn



Princeton

Princeton



Yale

Yale



Colorado

Colorado



Iowa State

Iowa State



Kansas

Kansas



Kansas St.

Kansas St.



Missouri

Missouri



Nebraska

Nebraska



Oklahoma

Oklahoma



Wake Forest

Wake Forest



Virginia

Virginia



NCSU

NCSU



UNC

UNC



Duke

Duke



Clemson

Clemson



Maryland

Maryland



South Carolina

South Carolina



BYU

BYU



Colorado St.

Colorado St.



Wyoming

Wyoming



New Mexico

New Mexico



Utah

Utah



Utah St.

Utah St.



Denver

Denver



Montana

Montana



WVU

WVU



Va. Tech

Va. Tech



GW

GW



Furman

Furman



VMI

VMI



Davidson

Davidson



Richmond

Richmond



Citadel

Citadel



W&M

W&M



Houston

Houston



Tulsa

Tulsa



Oklahoma St.

Oklahoma St.



Wichita St.

Wichita St.



Detroit

Detroit



Arizona

Arizona



Arizona St.

Arizona St.



New Mexico St.

New Mexico St.



UTEP

UTEP



Hardin-Simmons

Hardin-Simmons



W. Texas A&M

W. Texas A&M



Cal

Cal



UCLA

UCLA



Oregon

Oregon



Oregon St.

Oregon St.



USC

USC



Stanford

Stanford



Washington

Washington



Washington St.

Washington St.



Idaho

Idaho



SMU

SMU



TAMU

TAMU



Texas

Texas



Rice

Rice



Baylor

Baylor



TCU

TCU



Arkansas

Arkansas



Florida

Florida



Kentucky

Kentucky



Georgia

Georgia



Tenn.

Tenn.



Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt



Alabama

Alabama



Auburn

Auburn



LSU

LSU



Ole Miss

Ole Miss



Miss. St.

Miss. St.



Ga. Tech

Ga. Tech



Tulane

Tulane



Indiana

Indiana



Michigan

Michigan



MSU

MSU



Ohio St.

Ohio St.



Illinois

Illinois



Iowa

Iowa



Minnesota

Minnesota



Northwestern

Northwestern



Purdue

Purdue



Wisconsin

Wisconsin




The "University Division" in 1956.[62]


 





1927







1927 Map of Teams



NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is located in the US

Penn State

Penn State



Notre Dame

Notre Dame



Army

Army



Navy

Navy



Syracuse

Syracuse



Pitt

Pitt



Colgate

Colgate



Marquette

Marquette



MSU

MSU



Brown

Brown



Columbia

Columbia



Cornell

Cornell



Dartmouth

Dartmouth



Harvard

Harvard



Penn

Penn



Princeton

Princeton



Yale

Yale



Detroit

Detroit



Furman

Furman



WVU

WVU



Davidson

Davidson



Wake Forest

Wake Forest



Duke

Duke



Georgetown

Georgetown



W&J

W&J



Creighton

Creighton



NYU

NYU



Lafayette

Lafayette



CMU

CMU



Va. Tech

Va. Tech



VMI

VMI



W&L

W&L



Citadel

Citadel



Virginia

Virginia



NCSU

NCSU



UNC

UNC



Clemson

Clemson



Maryland

Maryland



South Carolina

South Carolina



Florida

Florida



Kentucky

Kentucky



Georgia

Georgia



Tenn.

Tenn.



Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt



Alabama

Alabama



Auburn

Auburn



LSU

LSU



Ole Miss

Ole Miss



Miss. St.

Miss. St.



Ga. Tech

Ga. Tech



Tulane

Tulane



Sewanee

Sewanee



BYU

BYU



Colorado St.

Colorado St.



Colorado

Colorado



Wyoming

Wyoming



Utah

Utah



Utah St.

Utah St.



Denver

Denver



Montana St.

Montana St.



Denver

Denver



Colorado Co.

Colorado Co.



Colorado Mines

Colorado Mines



Western St.

Western St.



N. Colorado

N. Colorado



Iowa State

Iowa State



Kansas

Kansas



Kansas St.

Kansas St.



Missouri

Missouri



Nebraska

Nebraska



Oklahoma

Oklahoma



Oklahoma St.

Oklahoma St.



Drake

Drake



WUSTL

WUSTL



Grinnell

Grinnell



Cal

Cal



UCLA

UCLA



Oregon

Oregon



Oregon St.

Oregon St.



USC

USC



Stanford

Stanford



Washington

Washington



Washington St.

Washington St.



Idaho

Idaho



Montana

Montana



SMU

SMU



TAMU

TAMU



Texas

Texas



Rice

Rice



Baylor

Baylor



TCU

TCU



Arkansas

Arkansas



Indiana

Indiana



Michigan

Michigan



Ohio St.

Ohio St.



Illinois

Illinois



Iowa

Iowa



Minnesota

Minnesota



Northwestern

Northwestern



Purdue

Purdue



Wisconsin

Wisconsin



Chicago

Chicago




College football teams in 1927, before six MVIAA teams formed the Big 6.[63]


 





Schools that have transitioned to the FBS







Schools that have transitioned to the FBS



NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is located in the US

La. Tech

La. Tech



Akron

Akron



UNLV

UNLV



Ark. St.

Ark. St.



Nevada

Nevada



ULM

ULM



N. Texas

N. Texas



Boise St.

Boise St.



Buffalo

Buffalo



UCF

UCF



Marshall

Marshall



MTSU

MTSU



S. Florida

S. Florida



UConn

UConn



Troy

Troy



FAU

FAU



FIU

FIU



W. Kentucky

W. Kentucky



UMass

UMass



Charlotte

Charlotte



Liberty

Liberty



Old Dominion

Old Dominion



UTSA

UTSA



App. St.

App. St.



Georgia Southern

Georgia Southern



Georgia St.

Georgia St.



S. Alabama

S. Alabama



Texas St.

Texas St.



Coastal Carolina

Coastal Carolina



Idaho

Idaho




This map shows schools that have transitioned to the FBS since 1978. Green pogs indicate schools that transitioned before 1990, red pogs indicate schools that transitioned between 1990 and 1999, blue pogs indicate schools that transitioned between 2000 and 2009, and orange pogs indicate schools that transitioned after 2010. White pog denotes Idaho, a school that has transitioned from FCS to FBS (1997) and back to FCS (2018).


 





See also




  • NCAA Men's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision alignment history

  • List of NCAA Division I non-football programs

  • List of NCAA Division I FBS football stadiums



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