List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football
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^Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2020. Full D-I membership in 2024.
^Bellarmine will add sprint football, a form of the sport with severe limits on player weight that is not governed by the NCAA, in the 2022–23 school year.[1]
^In May 2021, Hartford's governing board voted to begin the university's process of transitioning from Division I to NCAA Division III. Under the plan, Hartford is to formally apply to the NCAA for reclassification in January 2022, stop awarding athletic scholarships to incoming students from 2022–23 onward, and join an unnamed D-III conference in 2023 before becoming a full D-III member in 2025–26.[2][3]
^ abcThese 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.[4] Nearly a year before the merger, the UT System announced that UTRGV would inherit the UTPA athletic program,[5] and later unveiled the new school's nickname as Vaqueros.
^UTRGV has multiple 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.[6]
^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.