NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision alignment history information
This is a list of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision alignment history. Teams in italics are no longer in the Football Bowl Subdivision.[1] Teams in bold italics have announced transitions to FBS. The most recent programs to complete an FBS transition are James Madison, Sam Houston, and Jacksonville State, who all began their transitions in 2022 and became full FBS members in 2024. The most recent school to leave the FBS ranks is Idaho, which downgraded its program to FCS (the Football Championship Subdivision) after the 2017 season.
Notably, Idaho is the only program to voluntarily downgrade from FBS to FCS without extenuating circumstances since the NCAA created those subdivisions in 1978. After the 1981 season, a large number of programs were downgraded from Division I-A (now FBS) to Division I-AA (now FCS) by the NCAA. Two teams that met NCAA requirements to remain in I-A at that time, McNeese and Yale, chose to voluntarily downgrade to align with the rest of their conferences. Most never returned to I-A/FBS, with the most significant exceptions being Cincinnati and most members of the Mid-American Conference, which were reinstated into I-A after only a single season at the I-AA level.
Listings are accurate for the upcoming 2024 college football season.
^"Major-College Alignment History" (PDF). NCAA. 2011. p. 8. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
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