These are schools who have added teams this year, or unknown status starting this fall. You might see some of the scores for these scores in the future. Adding or dropping football causes realignment issues for football.





Anderson University 2024 SAC D2
UTRGV fall of 2025 in the WAC
Eastern U. D3 2023
Centenary, LA. 2024
Schriener SCAC D3
West Virginia Tech NAIA ?
Anderson University D2 2024
Calvin D3 2023
Simpson NAIA 2024
Thomas Sun Conference NAIA 2023
CCC-California NJCAA 2023
CCC-Detroit NJCAA 2023
Maine Maritime 2023/2024 partial 2025 full varsity D3
Carolina Christian College
Pacific Northwest Christian College
John Melvin University
Atlantis U.
Roanoke College D3
Cabrillo College NJCAA

Unknown status so far. Watch List
Little Rock passed
Belmont Abbey
Belmont
Lipscomp
UW-Green Bay
FGCU passed
UNF
UTA
Texas A&M- C.C.
Long Beach State
CSU-Fullerton
CSU-Northridge
UC-Irvine
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
Milwaukee
Wichita State
Chicago State
Cleveland State
George Mason passed
Grand Canyon passed
Utah Valley
VCU
New Orleans FCS Was supposed to start this fall 2015.
Coppin State FCS MEAC Was supposed to turned the club team into a varsity team. Appalachian State was a former club team that went varsity. The first year target was this year.
High Point FCS After going after some buildings for a medical school stuff and all that, they will add football and build up their facilities. They do play football at the club level. Start date is yet to be determined.
UMES

William Carey
UT-Tyler
CSU-East Bay
Hood College
Bethany Lutheran
Brewton Parker
John Brown
Oglethorpe
Oklahoma Wesleyan
OKCU
Union University
Trevecca Nazarene University
Northern New Mexico
Rogers State
Le Moyne-Owen D2 HBCU school in Tennessee was supposed to start football back in 2012. There was no news why they did not start or the delay was.
Mount Mercy Iowa NAIA Was accepted to join join Heart of America Conference for 2016-17 school year. As it is all football conference, Mount Mercy have to add football by 2018 season. No word yet that they added football.
Saint Leo
Wright State

Now which schools in D1 or D2 could add football between now and 2020? There are a lot of schools rumored or talked about adding the sport from coast to coast.



schools dropping football:
Azusa Pacific 2020
Malone 2018 last year
Humboldt State 2018
Bacone 2017 last year
Mount Ida 2017 last year
Pima Community College 2018
Phoenix College 2018
Scottsdale Community College 2018
Mesa Community college 2018
Glendale Community College 2018
Cheyney 2017 last year of play
Concordia Alabama 2015
Haskill 2014
Lambuth 2011
Maranatha Baptist University 2017
Menlo 2015
Morthland College 2017
Omaha 2011
Paine College 2015
Saint Joseph's College 2017
Saint Paul's 2011
Stillman College 2015
West Virginia University Tech 2011
Joliet Junior College 2011
Grand Rapids Community College 2012
Mendocino College 2016
Rock Valley College 2010
Solano Community College 2012
Arizona Western 2018
Eastern Arizona 2018
LIU-Post 2018 merge athletics with LIU-Brooklyn
Lindenwood-Belleville merged with the main campus 2018 last year.
Jacksonville 2019
Dakota College at Bottineau 2019
Northland Community and Technical Community College 2019
Cincinnati Christian 2019
UM-Crookston 2019
St. Cloud State 2019
Trinity Bible College 2019
MacMurray 2019
Urbana 2019
Florida Tech 2019
Wesley 2020
College of the Redwoods 2020
Occidental 2020
Maine Maritime 2020
Wesley College 2021
Becker College 2021
Whittier College 2022

Interested to see if Kennesaw State 2015 FCS (ASUN/FB Big South) will get an invite from the SOCON

(06-17-2015 07:40 AM)GTFletch Wrote:  Interested to see if Kennesaw State 2015 FCS (ASUN/FB Big South) will get an invite from the SOCON

Mercer is already in Southern, and they are so close by to each other. Not sure they will get the invite.

SoCon is at a 9/10 alignment - no need to mess with that at the moment.

IPFW could have made a move to football when the minor league baseball team moved downtown and left a stadium across the street from Campus. This might be fun

Northland CTC in the NJCAA will be starting football in 2015.

former NCAA D1 school Oklahoma City University is looking to readd football, and will try to move up from NAIA to D2 then to D1 again.

D3 Calvin College is looking into adding football.

Still no word from Mount Mercy, Iowa yet.

Belmont Abbey is looking at restarting football and move to D1. They would fit in Southern Conference.

Wisconsin-Milwaukee could be the next Wisconsin school at D1 to have football if they do get it.

Fullerton State, Long Beach State and North Ridge State are having students want football. The AD at Long Beach State said that they could add football and join the MWC for all sport.
Cal-Irvine AD said she is getting a lot of students asking for football.
The AD at Cal.-Riverside is also getting feedback for football.
FGCU said they will not add football at the time they reported it, but they could add it in the future.
Hartford recently added a club team. Could they turned their club team into a full fledge varsity team?
IUPUI might look into adding football.
Belmont and Lipscomb both mentioned that they might look into adding football.
North Florida announced that they will do a feasabilty study in adding football, but no report back on it. This was after Benson mentioned them on the list as one of the schools to be added into the Sun Belt.
UALR getting a lot of requests for them to start a football team.
UTA, not sure what they are doing right now.
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville does have a club team, but there is an interests that it could be turned into a varsity team in the future. Their website for the school with the Q&A from the President answered that question.
VCU we all have heard about.
Utah Valley, Grand Canyon U. both could add football and join the Big Sky.
Wichita State wants to find a way out of MVC, and looking to join the MWC. I have to say that all that they need to do is add football, and they are in.
Winthrop did a recent study, but have not announced the findings on adding football yet.
Lee University announced that they will not add the sport.
Montana State-Billings will not add football at this time.

Hocking College NJCAA 2015 will be their first year on football.

UQTR is a University in Quebec, Canada that will restart their football program in 2017.

This is an interesting list. I am surprised Kennesaw State has never had a football team before. I figured it was resurrecting a program that probably fell on hard times during the 1930s. I could see KSU make the leap to FBS eventually.

I'm glad to see West Florida gear up for football. The Gulf South Conference is still one of the top 2-3 conferences in the country, in my opinion, despite VSU losing its luster.

Mount Marty could add football in the future. They can not start it at present.

Montana State-Billings got their feasability back, and football is a no go.

The Big West could try to put together a non-scholarship FCS league to start:

UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Northridge State
Long Beach State
Fullerton State
San Diego (affiliate)

The Toreros can play their conference games in a bus league instead of an airplane league. The Big West could then transition to full-scholarship FCS at a pace it chooses-even if San Diego leaves it could then pick up its own members playing football in the Big Sky, UC Davis and Cal Poly.

SIUE and Belmont obviously would plug right in to their home conference. If they add football you wonder if Morehead State would add scholarships.

I think if Long Beach State restarts their football? They might get an invite to the MWC along with UTEP to go to 14. MWC could be proactive in case if they lose schools to P5 conferences.

http://billingsgazette.com/sports/colleg...15174.html


Montana State-Billings recieve a pledge of 1 million dollars to restart football. So, footall could be coming back to Billings quicker if the donations keep coming in.

(08-07-2015 05:22 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  The Big West could try to put together a non-scholarship FCS league to start:

UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Northridge State
Long Beach State
Fullerton State
San Diego (affiliate)

The Toreros can play their conference games in a bus league instead of an airplane league. The Big West could then transition to full-scholarship FCS at a pace it chooses-even if San Diego leaves it could then pick up its own members playing football in the Big Sky, UC Davis and Cal Poly.

SIUE and Belmont obviously would plug right in to their home conference. If they add football you wonder if Morehead State would add scholarships.

Sac State will want into this Big West FCS league, and it will be a good fit for Portland State as well.

(08-08-2015 12:59 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  

(08-07-2015 05:22 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  The Big West could try to put together a non-scholarship FCS league to start:

UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Northridge State
Long Beach State
Fullerton State
San Diego (affiliate)

The Toreros can play their conference games in a bus league instead of an airplane league. The Big West could then transition to full-scholarship FCS at a pace it chooses-even if San Diego leaves it could then pick up its own members playing football in the Big Sky, UC Davis and Cal Poly.

SIUE and Belmont obviously would plug right in to their home conference. If they add football you wonder if Morehead State would add scholarships.

Sac State will want into this Big West FCS league, and it will be a good fit for Portland State as well.

They could invite Humboldt State, Azusa Pacific and East Bay State to join as well. 2 play football, and East Bay State have plans online for them to restart football. I think Portland State will stay with Big Sky.
Northern Arizona, Dixie State and Southern Utah could go with the Big West. Big Sky can take a number of schools from the GNAC and RMAC to refill their conference.

William Carey University, an NAIA school in Hattiesburg, MS, has had some rumblings about starting a football program. While I don't know any timetable they may have, there seems to be some momentum for it. They actually had a successful football team in the 50s, going 16-1 over their only two seasons.

(08-09-2015 12:55 AM)Zombiewoof Wrote:  William Carey University, an NAIA school in Hattiesburg, MS, has had some rumblings about starting a football program. While I don't know any timetable they may have, there seems to be some momentum for it. They actually had a successful football team in the 50s, going 16-1 over their only two seasons.

There was a link to a news article about the AD talking about it, but you have to pay to read the article.

John Brown in Arkansas also mentioned that they may have to add football to keep up with the rest to get noticed.

Found the article.

http://www.victorysportsnetwork.com/Clip...-carey.htm

Glad Victory sports Network have the article.

UAB isn't new. Just a program in reset mode.

(06-17-2015 07:18 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Appalachian State was a former club team that went varsity.

Umm......no it wasn't

One of the more under-served college football markets is South Carolina. SC State is on the verge of non-existence. Wofford and Furman are small privates. Winthrop, College of Charleston, Charleston Southern, and USC Upstate have no team. The Citadel is the only game in town in Charleston but has the military restrictions. Coastal Carolina is the only game in town in the grand strand. Presbyterian is tiny and in BFE. I think USC Upstate would blossom just like Coastal Carolina did if they start up a program. And like the USC Upstate hoops team, they'd get the lions share of the largely overlooked I-85 corridor 5A high school talent, which is the life blood of the Clemson football program.