Talk:List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs

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I was just thinking how handy it would be to have a list like this for tracking which schools are missing athletics pages and football pages. Many thanks for putting it together! BigDT 00:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Programs by State Reorganization
The list of programs is in a sortable table. If we separate city and state, the reader can sort by state, making the list of programs by state redundant. This would improve maintainability and prevent inaccuracies in the two lists. Spleck 14:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

North Carolina State may not get much attention,
but it is an FBS team. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.243.197 (talk) 19:34, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

NC State appears to have been added.

To add to the "not here" list... isn't University of North Alabama FBS? I don't know enough about them to add, and I'm not positive that I'm correct. --Gapmtn1 (talk) 21:25, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Joined Div I
So, from the DI page and its NCAA publication source, the NCAA made University Division (1968) into DI (1973) into DI-A (1978) into FBS (2006). So, what year should be used for schools that have been members since before the divisions were made? Just make it 1968? or its latest form and 2006? get rid of the column? or what? TheTito  Discuss  07:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd say 68 makes the most sense. It's not like the English Premier League, or something, where clubs seceded from what had been the highest division and formed a new highest division.  The NCAA just changed the name. john k (talk) 15:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Location
For some of these schools, the football stadium is located in a different city (or even a different county) from the main campus. Florida Atlantic, for example, is in Boca Raton, but the football stadium is in Fort Lauderdale. Miami is in Coral Gables, but the stadium is in Miami Gardens. Most of Rutgers' campus is in New Brunswick, but the stadium is in Piscataway. Which should be listed as the location here? I'd tend towards the stadium, but I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts. john k (talk) 05:51, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I would lean towards the school's "home" (central or adminstrative) location, as listed on its main page, which would be Boca Raton for FAU, and New Brunswick for Rutgers, primarily because this is a list of football programs and their schools, rather than a list of stadiums. Spleck (talk) 20:19, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Previous or original conference is "Independent"
Currently only Louisiana-Monroe and Utah State are listed as "Independents" in their Former Conferences column. This is inaccurate, particularly in context to the early days of college football at the turn of the century predating the formation of many conferences, the initial year(s) of several programs, and WWI and WWII periods when many were Independents as some colleges disbanded their teams: Auburn (1892-1894), UCLA (1919), Tennessee (1891-1893), Washington State (1959-1961), Michigan (1879-1895, 1907-1916), etc. In short, the table is substantially incorrect/misleading as-is.

The quickest resolution appears to be adding a note ("Periods as Independents are not noted.")

The better solution might be to include some data ala ("Non-inaugural seasons as Independents are not noted.") while excluding any years which precede the joining of a conference.

The robust solution would be noting any period(s) for every program in which the program was an Independent. This is presently prohibitively difficult as many/most teams lack a year-by-year results section or stand-alone page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UW Dawgs (talk • contribs) 07:11, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Map Correction
I noticed that West Virginia University is shown in Charleston, WV on the map. It is actually located in Morgantown, WV, which is about 250 km away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.48.94.11 (talk) 02:58, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

UAB
I'm assuming that the map of FBS football programs is dated. UAB did end their football program in the 20-teens, but they are currently an active program in the FBS division. Could the author of the FBS map correct this? Thank you Sedriskell (talk) 00:26, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

New maps
Answer to requests for map corrections above: I made a new map for this page, plus List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs and List of NCAA Division II football programs. The tables on these pages are great, but the maps had been kept for years and getting increasingly outdated. Let me know if I made any mistakes. DanDG44 (talk) 18:20, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Map Correction
The University of North Texas is missing from the map at the top of the page. They're located in Denton, and should be right above SMU and TCU. Quattrovalvole (u/t, s s/t) 15:21, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

The map is incomplete; can it be updated?
Apologies if this is the wrong forum. The FBS map has at least one omission and probably should be audited. The omission is the University of North Texas in Denton, north of Dallas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:14D:BA86:8D5B:6067:9EC0:17D9:FF1F (talk) 16:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

jacksonville state, sam houston
jacksonville state and sam houston are full fbs members as of the 2023-24 season and are members of conference usa. i cant add them to the chart because frankly i dont know how but they need to be added. 2600:1005:B145:1065:0:56:B51B:BB01 (talk) 06:03, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Also missing James Madison, which is FBS Sun Belt as of 2022. 129.252.5.33 (talk) 05:24, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Delaware
Just announced they are moving to fbs Jensnnsyebs (talk) 02:33, 28 November 2023 (UTC)