Profound Impact of FCS to FBS migration
With all of the FCS schools moving up to FBS there is going to be a noticeable power shift away from the scholarship FCS leagues.
2010
BCS (66 schools; B1G, SEC, ACC, PAC, B12, BE, ND)
Non-AQ (54 schools; MWC, CUSA, WAC, MAC, SBC, Army, Navy)
FCS Full Scholarship (84 schools)
FCS Parital/Non Scholly (41 schools; NEC, IVY, PL, Pioneer, Big S)
2014
P5 (65 schools; B1G, SEC, ACC, PAC, B12, ND)
Non-AQ (64 schools; MWC, CUSA, AAC, MAC, SBC, Army, BYU)
FCS Full Scholarship (85 schools)
FCS Parital/Non Scholly (40 schools; NEC, IVY, PL, Pioneer, Big S)
For the first time, the FBS schools out number the FCS. While the FCS full scholarship leagues managed to backfill 9 programs made their way to the FBS ranks.
Its not just that the FBS added 9 top tier FCS programs its also that by moving from 63 to 85 scholarships an additional 198 scholarships (22 x 9) were sucked up by FBS. That is another 2 scholarships per team right there.
The remaining FCS programs will have to fight over less available talent. There will be far fewer FBS upsets and FCS teams finishing in the Top 100 of the Sagarin ratings in the future...
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2013 11:10 AM by Kittonhead.)
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