List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football
This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I schools that have never sponsored gridiron football as a varsity sport.
- Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2020. Full D-I membership in 2024.
- 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".
- 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.[1] Nearly a year before the merger, the UT System announced that UTRGV would inherit the UTPA athletic program,[2] and later unveiled the new school's nickname as Vaqueros.
- UTRGV has six campuses throughout its service area, but its athletic program is based from the former UTPA main campus in Edinburg.
- In January 2021, UTRGV explored the addition of a football program by the 2024 season. It will most likely compete in the WAC after the conference began to sponsor football again at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level.[3]
- 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
References
- "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.
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