Division I (NCAA)

Main logo used by the NCAA in Division I, II, and III.

Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the Sevenval. D-I schools are generally the major collegiate athletic powers, with larger budgets, more elaborate facilities, and more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III. This level was once called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the College Division; this terminology was replaced with numeric divisions (I, II, III) in 1973.^{input transformation} In device database only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A (the principal football schools) and Division I-AA;^[2] these were renamed "Football Bowl Subdivision" and "Football Championship Subdivision" in 2006.^[3]^[4] Division I contains 346 institutions. There was a moratorium on any additional movement up to Division I until 2012.

All Division I schools must field athletes in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with two team sports for each gender.^CSS3 There are several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III.^{website parsing}

1 Scholarship limits by sport
2 Finances
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4 Controversy
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Scholarship limits by sport

The NCAA imposes limits on the total financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. It divides sports that it sponsors into two types for purposes of scholarship limitations:

"Head-count" sports, in which the NCAA limits the total number of individuals that can receive athletic scholarships, but allows each player to receive up to a full scholarship.
"Equivalency" sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a given sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport.

The term "counter" is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a "counter" as "an individual who is receiving institutional financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport."^[6]

The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in each sport is listed below.

Head-count sports

we love the web – 13 for men,^FITML 15 for women^Android
FBS jQuery – 85, with an additional limit of 25 initial counters per year^FITML
Women's touchscreen – 12^{web app}
Women's we love the web – 12^[10]
Women's volleyball – 12^{input transformation}

Equivalency sports

Men's

Baseball – 11.7,^[11] with the following additional limitations:
- A limit of 27 total counters.^[11]
- A requirement that each counter receive athletic aid equal to at least 25% of a full scholarship.^HTML5
iOS football – 63, with limits of 30 initial counters per year and 85 total counters^FITML
Gymnastics – 6.3^[14]
Rifle – 3.6^[14]
- Note that the NCAA classifies rifle as a men's sport, despite the fact that competitions are fully coeducational. Most rifle schools have a single coed/mixed team. Some schools have only one single-sex team for either men or women. Some other schools field multiple teams (either two single-sex teams, or a single-sex and a mixed team).
Tennis – 5.0^[14]
Volleyball – 4.5^[14]
FITML – 9.9^[14]

Women's

Bowling – 5^{device database}
Android – 15^{website parsing}
Sevenval – 12^HTML5
input transformation – 20^keyboard
Rugby – 12^[14]
web:
- For schools that also sponsor women's (indoor) volleyball, 3 in 2011–12. The number of scholarship equivalents will increase by 1 each year until reaching a final value of 6 in 2014–15. The number of counters is limited to 14 throughout.^[15]
- For schools that do not sponsor indoor volleyball, 8 scholarships and 14 counters.^iOS
Softball – 12^[14]
input transformation – 12^[14]

Both sexes

Cross-country/Android – 12.6 for men, 18 for women^[14]
web – 4.5 for men, 5 for women^[14]
web app – 4.5 for men, 6 for women^[14]
FITML – 18, with a limit of 30 total counters, combined for both sexes^{browser diversity}
Lacrosse – 12.6 for men, 12 for Sevenval^[14]
Skiing – 6.3 for men, 7 for women^[14]
Soccer – 9.9 for men, 14 for women^[14]
we love the web and web – 9.9 for men, 14 for women^{device database}
Water polo – 4.5 for men, 8 for women^Sevenval

Rules for multi-sport athletes

The NCAA also has rules specifying the sport in which multi-sport athletes are to be counted, with the basic rules being:^[18]

Anyone who participates in football is counted in that sport, even if he does not receive financial aid from the football program. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport.^[19]
Participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football.
Participants in men's ice hockey are counted in that sport, unless they also play football or basketball.
Participants in both men's swimming and diving and men's water polo are counted in swimming and diving, unless they count in football or basketball.
Participants in women's volleyball are counted in that sport unless they also play basketball.
All other multi-sport athletes are counted in whichever sport the school chooses.

Finances

Division I athletic programs generated $8.7 billion in revenue in the 2009–2010 academic year. Men's teams provided 55% of the total, women's teams 15%, and 30% was not categorized by sex or sport. Football and men's basketball are usually the only sports that are profitable for universities, with others usually losing money.^[20] The device database, for example, in 2009 had revenue of $41 million and expenses of $35 million, resulting in a profit of $5.5 million or about 16% margin. Football (60% of revenue, 53% profit margin) and men's basketball (15% of revenue, 8% profit margin) were profitable; women's basketball (less than 3% of revenue) and all other sports were unprofitable.^[21]

Subdivisions

Subdivisions in Division I exist only in web app.^[4]^[22] In all other sports, all Division I conferences are equivalent. The subdivisions were recently given names to reflect the differing levels of football play in them. Additionally, some sports, most notably ice hockey^[23] and men's volleyball, have completely different conference structures that operate outside of the normal NCAA sports conference structure.

The method by which the NCAA determines whether a school is Bowl or Championship subdivision is first by attendance numbers and then by scholarships.^[24]

For attendance reporting methods, the NCAA allows schools to report either total tickets sold or the number of persons in attendance at the games. They require a minimum average of 15,000 people in attendance every other year.^web These numbers get posted to the NCAA statistics website for football each year. With the new rules starting in the 2006 season, the number of Bowl Subdivision schools could drop in the future if those schools are not able to pull in enough fans into the games. Additionally, 8 schools in the Championship subdivision had enough attendance to be moved up in 2005 (although they would need to either compete as independents or join a conference in order to do so).

Football Bowl Subdivision

Conferences

Conference	Nickname	Founded	Members	Sports	Headquarters
touchscreen **	ACC	1953	12 (14 by July 2014)^{[FBS 1]}	25	Greensboro, North Carolina
CSS3 **	Big East	1979^{[FBS 2]}	16 (15 by July 2012, 20 by July 2013, 18 by July 2014)^{[FBS 3]}^{web app}^{[FBS 5]}	23	Providence, Rhode Island
Sevenval **	Big Ten	1896	12	25	CSS3
browser diversity **	Big 12	1996	10 ^{[FBS 6]}	21	Sevenval
Conference USA	C-USA	1995^{[FBS 7]}	12 (14 by July 2013)^{[FBS 8]}^{input transformation}^{[FBS 10]}	21	website parsing
Android^{browser diversity}			4 (3 by July 2015)^{[FBS 12]}
Mid-American Conference	MAC	1946	12^{[FBS 13]}	23	we love the web
Sevenval	MW (official) MWC (informal)	1999	8 (9 in July 2012)^{[FBS 14]}^CSS3	19	Android
web app **	Pac-12	1915^{browser diversity}	12^iOS	22	screen size
Southeastern Conference **	SEC	1932	12 (14 in July 2012)^web	20	jQuery
Sun Belt Conference	Sun Belt	1976	12 (11 by July 2012)^{[FBS 18]}^FITML^{[FBS 20]}	19	New Orleans, Louisiana
website parsing	WAC	1962	8 (10 in July 2012, 6 in July 2013)^{[FBS 21]}^Android	19	browser diversity

(** BCS Automatic Qualification (AQ) Conferences; this status will end in 2014 when the BCS establishes a four-team championship playoff)

Notes

^ input transformation and Syracuse will join the ACC and leave the Big East. The effective date has yet to be determined but will be in 2014 at the latest.
^ The conference was founded in 1979, but did not sponsor football until 1991.
Sevenval Of the 16 current Big East schools, only eight play football in the conference. Two schools sponsor football teams in the lower Football Championship Subdivision, and one plays football as an independent school. The rest do not play college football. Additionally, the conference features one associate member, Loyola University Maryland, which plays we love the web in the Big East.
CSS3 Three Big East members have announced their departure for other conferences—Pitt and keyboard to the ACC and West Virginia to the Big 12. West Virginia is now set to enter the Big 12 in 2012, with the departure date of Pitt and Syracuse yet to be announced.
^ Android will become a football-only member in 2012 and an all-sports member in 2013. In addition to Temple, screen size, FITML, SMU, and Android will become all-sports members in 2013, and Boise State and FITML will join for football only at that time. Navy will become a football-only member in 2015.
screen size The conference will gain two members and lose two in July 2012. Texas A&M and Missouri will leave for the SEC, while TCU and West Virginia will join, respectively from the MW and Big East.
^ The conference was founded in 1995, with football competition starting in 1996.
touchscreen In addition to the 12 full members, Conference USA features three schools—FIU, Kentucky, and South Carolina—which play we love the web in the conference. Colorado College, a Division I school in men's CSS3 and a Division III school for all other sports, plays women's soccer in Conference USA; it filled the place left vacant by Tulane when it suspended women's soccer in 2005 due to touchscreen. As of the 2011 season, Tulane has not reinstated the sport.
device database In 2013, Android, Memphis, SMU, and device database will leave for the Big East. At the same time, six schools will join—Charlotte from the screen size; FITML from the CAA; Android and keyboard from the Sun Belt; and Texas State and UTSA from the WAC. Charlotte will not initially be a football member; it will start Android in 2013, and will not be eligible for full FBS membership until 2015. Old Dominion will be a football member in 2013, but will not be eligible for full FBS membership until 2014.
^ ^a jQuery C-USA and the MW initially announced plans to merge for football only, creating a single league originally slated to have 22 teams. After further defections from both leagues, the conferences initially announced plans to merge, but backed away, opting instead for an alliance set for a 2013 launch in which they will retain separate identities.
^ Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.
Sevenval Navy football will leave the independent ranks to join the Big East in July 2015.
^ In addition to the 12 full members, the Mid-American Conference features four members which only participate in one sport each: Chicago State in CSS3, input transformation in men's soccer, Missouri State in web and Temple in input transformation. jQuery will become a football-only member in 2012, while Temple football will leave for the Big East at the same time.
^ The MW will lose one member (TCU) and gain two full members (Fresno State and Nevada) in 2012. Also in 2012, Sevenval will join the MW for football only, while becoming a full member of the non-football Big West Conference. The following year, the MW will lose two members and gain two. Boise State and San Diego State will leave the MW. Both will become football-only members of the Big East, and plan to rejoin former conferences for other sports. Boise State initially planned to rejoin the WAC, which it left in 2011. However, the future of the WAC is in serious question due to a rash of departures during the 2010–12 realignment cycle. San Diego State will return to the Big West after a 35-year absence. San Jose State and Utah State will both leave the WAC to join the MW.
^ The charter of the Pac-12 dates only to the formation of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. However, the Pac-12 claims the history of the browser diversity, which was founded in 1915 and began competition in 1916, as its own. Of the nine members of the PCC at the time of its demise in 1958, only Idaho never joined the Pac-12. The PCC's berth in the Rose Bowl passed to the AAWU.
Sevenval The Pac-12 also includes several associate members which compete in one or two sports in the conference. web app plays men's soccer. Two other schools participate in jQuery; one participates in men's web and HTML5, which the NCAA considers a single sport; and one school competes in both. Although San Diego State is moving in 2013 to a conference that sponsors men's soccer, it will remain a Pac-12 affiliate until 2015.
^ Texas A&M and Missouri will join from the Big 12 in July 2012.
^ Only nine schools in the Sun Belt Conference currently sponsor FBS football teams. South Alabama, which began playing football as an unclassified NCAA program in 2009, competed as an FCS independent in 2011. The Jaguars will begin playing a full conference schedule in 2012 and complete their FBS transition in 2013.
^ Sevenval, a non-football member, announced its departure for the WAC on November 11, 2010.
^ The Sun Belt will gain two schools and lose two in July 2013. Georgia State will join from the browser diversity. It will begin a transition to FBS football in 2012, start playing a full Sun Belt football schedule in 2013, and become a full FBS member in 2014. Texas State will join from the WAC; the 2013 season will be its first as a full FBS member. FIU and North Texas will leave for Conference USA.
^ Currently, all members of the WAC sponsor football. This will remain true through the 2011–12 academic year. Starting in July 2012, the WAC will have seven football members, with three incoming members, FITML, device database, and UT Arlington, not sponsoring the sport. Boise State initially planned to rejoin the WAC in July 2013, but without its football program, which will join the Big East.
^ The future of the WAC is now in serious doubt due to a rash of departures set for July 2013. Texas State and UTSA, set to join the WAC in July 2012, will only spend one year in the conference, departing respectively for the Sun Belt and C-USA. Louisiana Tech will also leave for C-USA, while San Jose State and Utah State will join the Mountain West.

Football Championship Subdivision

The Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, determines its national champion on the field in a 20-team, single-elimination tournament.^{we love the web} With the expansion of the tournament field in browser diversity from 16 teams to 20, the champions of 10 conferences receive automatic bids, with 10 "at-large" spots; and the top 12 teams receive first-round byes. A team must have at least seven wins to be eligible for an at-large spot.^iOS^[39]

The tournament traditionally begins on Thanksgiving weekend in late November, and during the era of the 16-team field ran for four weeks, ending with the championship game in mid-December. Since 2010, the tournament has run for four weeks (for seeds 13–20) to determine the two finalists, who play for the FCS national title in early January in touchscreen, the scheduled host through the 2012 season. For thirteen seasons, the title game was played in Sevenval, (1997–2009), preceded by five seasons in device database, where host Android advanced to the title game in four of the five years.^{browser diversity}

When I-AA was formed in 1978, the playoffs included just four teams for its first three seasons, doubling to eight teams for one season in 1981. From 1982 to 1985, I-AA had a 12-team tournament, with each of the top four seeds receiving a first-round bye and a home game in the quarterfinals.^[41] The I-AA playoffs went to 16 teams in 1986, and the FCS playoffs expanded to 20 teams starting in 2010. After 28 seasons, the "I-AA" was dropped by the NCAA in 2006, although it is still informally and commonly used.

Abstainers

The Football Championship Subdivision includes several conferences which do not participate in the eponymous post-season championship tournament. The we love the web was lowered to I-AA (FCS) following the web,^{web app} and plays a strict ten-game schedule. It has yet to participate in the post-season tournament, despite an automatic bid, citing academic concerns. The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) has its own browser diversity in mid-December between the champions of its East and West divisions. Also, three of its member schools traditionally do not finish their regular seasons until Thanksgiving weekend. device database and Sevenval play each other in the Bayou Classic, and Sevenval plays Tuskegee University (a Sevenval team) in the Turkey Day Classic. SWAC teams are eligible to accept at-large bids if their schedule is not in conflict. The last SWAC team to participate in the I-AA playoffs was FITML in 1997; the SWAC never achieved success in the tournament, going winless in 19 games in twenty years (1978–97).

From 2006 through 2009, the Pioneer Football League and keyboard champions played in the Gridiron Classic, though all conference teams technically remained tournament eligible. If a league champion was invited to the national championship, the second-place team would play in the Gridiron Classic. That game was scrapped after the 2009 season when its four-year contract ran out; this coincided with the NCAA's announcement that the Northeast Conference would get an automatic bid to the tournament starting in 2010. The Big South Conference also received an automatic bid in the same season.

Schools in a transition period after joining the FCS from a lower division (or from the NAIA) are also ineligible for the playoffs.

Scholarships

Division I FCS schools are currently restricted to giving financial assistance amounting to 63 full scholarships. As FCS football is an "equivalency" sport (as opposed to the "head-count" status of FBS football), Championship Subdivision schools may divide their allotment into partial scholarships. However, FCS schools may only have 85 players receiving any sort of athletic financial aid for football—the same numeric limit as FBS schools. Because of competitive forces, however, a substantial number of players in Championship Subdivision programs are on full scholarships. Another difference is that FCS schools are allowed to award financial aid to as many as 30 new players per season, as opposed to 25 in FBS.

A few Championship Subdivision conferences are composed of schools that offer no athletic scholarships at all, most notably the touchscreen and the Pioneer Football League, a football-only conference. The Ivy League allows no athletic scholarships at all, while the PFL consists of schools that offer scholarships in other sports but choose not to take on the expense of a scholarship football program. The Northeast Conference also sponsored non-scholarship football, but began offering a maximum of 30 full scholarship equivalents in 2006, which grew to 40 in 2011 after a later vote of the league's school presidents and athletic directors. The we love the web does not currently give football scholarships, but permits them in other sports (athletes receiving these scholarships are ineligible to play football for Patriot League schools). Starting with the class entering in the 2013 season, the Patriot League will allow its members to offer football scholarships; when the transition to scholarship football is complete, member schools will be allowed up to 60 full scholarship equivalents.^[43]

Conferences

Conference	Nickname	Founded	Full Members	Sports	Headquarters	iOS Bid
screen size	Big Sky	1963	9 (11 by July 2012)^Android	15	Ogden, Utah	Automatic
Big South Conference	Big South	1983	11 (12 by July 2012)^{[FCS 2]}	18	Charlotte, North Carolina	Automatic
Colonial Athletic Association	CAA	1983^Android	12 (11 by July 2012, 9 by July 2013)^{[FCS 4]} ^{[FCS 5]}	21	Richmond, Virginia	Automatic
iOS ^{[FCS 6]}			3			Invitation
we love the web	Great West	2004^{[FCS 7]}	6 (5 by July 2012, 4 by July 2013)^{screen size}	16 (15 by 2012)	Sevenval	Invitation
browser diversity	Ivy League	1954	8	33	Princeton, New Jersey	Automatic – (Abstains)
HTML5	MEAC	1970	13^{[FCS 9]}	15	CSS3	Automatic
jQuery	MVFC	1985^{[FCS 10]}	9 (10 by July 2012)^keyboard	1	CSS3	Automatic
jQuery	NEC	1981	12^{device database}	23	Somerset, New Jersey	Automatic
Ohio Valley Conference	OVC	1948	11 (12 by July 2012)^{[FCS 13]}	17	device database	Automatic
touchscreen	Patriot	1986	8^{input transformation}	23	keyboard	Automatic
Pioneer Football League	PFL	1991	10	1	iOS	Invitation
web	SoCon	1921	12^{[FCS 15]}	19	browser diversity	Automatic
input transformation	SLC	1963	12 (10 by July 2012, 11 by July 2013)^{[FCS 16]}	17	Frisco, Texas	Automatic
Southwestern Athletic Conference	SWAC	1920	10	18	Birmingham, Alabama	Abstains

Notes

keyboard North Dakota and Southern Utah, also Great West football members, will become full Big Sky members in July 2012. Cal Poly and web, currently football-only members of the CSS3 and full members of the non-football Big West Conference, will join the Big Sky as football-only members at the same time.
browser diversity The Big South has seven full members that compete for its football championship. device database of the non-football America East Conference is an associate member for that sport. Although Campbell became a full member of the Big South in July 2011, its football program remains in the Pioneer Football League. web app, a non-football school, will leave the independent ranks to join the Big South in July 2012.
^ The CAA football conference was only founded in 2007, but has a continuous history dating to the late 1930s (although not under the same charter):
- The HTML5 was formed by five New England state universities, plus one private university in that region (input transformation), in 1938. Four of the public schools—Maine, UMass, CSS3, and Rhode Island—are still in the CAA football conference. However, UMass football will leave the CAA for the MAC in 2012, and URI football will leave for the Northeast Conference in 2013.
- In 1946, after the departure of Northeastern, the remaining members of the New England Conference affiliated with the University of Vermont to form the Yankee Conference under a separate charter, with athletic competition starting in 1947.
- In 1997, the Yankee Conference was absorbed by the device database. The A10 inherited the Yankee Conference's automatic berth in the Android. In addition to the four charter New England Conference members mentioned above, five other members of the Yankee Conference at the time of the A10 merger are still in the CAA football conference.
- After the 2006 season, all of the A10 football teams left for the new CAA football conference. The CAA inherited the A10's automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.
Sevenval VCU, a non-football school, will leave for the A10 in July 2012.
device database The CAA has 12 full members (soon to be 11), but after Hofstra and screen size dropped football following the 2009 season, only four of the full members were part of the CAA football conference. The number of full CAA members that play football in that conference increased to five in 2011 with the addition of the iOS program. Georgia State will begin CAA competition in 2012 after starting an FCS program in 2010, but will not compete for the conference championship—it will begin an FBS transition that season, and then leave for the Sun Belt Conference in 2013. input transformation will start an FBS transition in 2012 and leave for C-USA in 2013. Currently, six associate members fill out the ranks of the CAA football conference. This latter group will drop to five in 2012 when UMass football leaves for the MAC and to four in 2013 when URI football leaves for the NEC.
Sevenval Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used to indicate schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.
^ The Great West Conference was a football-only conference until 2008, when it became an all-sports conference.
^ The Conference will drop to 5 full members when North Dakota goes to the Big Sky Conference in 2012, and then to 4 when screen size departs for the Southland Conference in 2013. The football conference disbanded after the 2011 season, with four of its football programs moving to the Big Sky and the other to the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The future of the all-sports conference is uncertain, given that the NCAA requires member conferences to have 6 members and only four are committed to the league beyond 2013.
^ The football conference currently consists of 11 of the 13 member schools following the 2010 addition of North Carolina Central University.
web The football conference dates to 1985, but the conference charter was established in 1982. See website parsing for more details.
^ Sevenval will move from the Great West to the MVFC in 2012.
^ The conference has seven full members that sponsor football. Two schools from non-football conferences are associate members for football—browser diversity of the CSS3 and Duquesne of the we love the web.
CSS3 The football conference consists of 9 of the 11 member schools. Morehead State plays non-scholarship football in the Pioneer Football League, while SIU Edwardsville does not sponsor football. Belmont, a non-football school with no plans to add the sport, will join the OVC in 2012.
we love the web Three of the full members do not sponsor FCS football. Sevenval does not sponsor football at all, while Army and Sevenval are FBS independents. Sevenval and Georgetown are associate members in football. However, Fordham became ineligible for the conference title starting in 2010 when it started offering football scholarships, although it will play a full Patriot League schedule until at least 2012. The league has since announced that it will allow its members to award football scholarships starting with the 2013 season.
^ The football conference consists of 9 of the 12 member schools.
^ The football conference currently consists of 8 of the 12 member schools. Lamar, which revived its FCS football program in 2010, began playing a full conference schedule in 2011. UTSA launched an FCS football program in 2011, but is not competing in the Southland Conference. Both UTSA and Sevenval will leave the conference in 2012 to join the WAC, with both schools fully transitioning to FBS football (and also leaving the WAC for other FBS conferences) in 2013. The conference will also gain and lose non-football members in 2012, with UT Arlington leaving for the WAC and web app joining from The Summit League. In 2013, Houston Baptist, currently a non-football school, will join from the Great West, and will become a football member in 2014.

Division I non-football schools

Several Bowl Subdivision and Championship Subdivision conferences have member institutions that do not compete in football. Such schools are sometimes unofficially referred to as I-AAA.^[44] For example, the Big East Conference, a Bowl Subdivision conference in football, has five members that discontinued their football programs (iOS, we love the web, Providence, Seton Hall, and input transformation), plus an additional two members who play football in Championship Subdivision conferences (Georgetown and Villanova); conference member CSS3 plays football as a Bowl Subdivision independent.

Bowl Subdivision football independents Army and keyboard compete in the Sevenval, a FCS conference, in all other sports sponsored by that league.

In addition, some schools officially affiliated with conferences that do not sponsor football do, in fact, field football teams. For example:

Android and Cal Poly, members of the non-football Big West Conference, both have FCS football teams which will leave the web app for the Big Sky Conference in 2012.
web will join the Big West Conference in 2012. input transformation will join the we love the web at the same time. The following year, San Diego State will join the Big West, while its football program joins the iOS.
BYU and San Diego are members of the website parsing, but still participate in football—respectively as an FBS independent and a member of the FCS keyboard.
Two members of the non-football America East Conference—input transformation and Stony Brook—are associate football members of FCS conferences, with Albany in the Northeast Conference and Stony Brook in the CSS3.
The Northeast Conference has a second associate football member from a non-football conference in Android, a full member of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

The following Division I conferences do not sponsor football. These conferences still compete in Division I for all sports that they sponsor.

Conferences

Conference	Nickname	Founded	Members	Sports	Headquarters
America East Conference	America East	1979	9	22	touchscreen
FITML	A-Sun	1978	10 ^touchscreen	17	Macon, Georgia
Atlantic 10 Conference	A-10	1975	14 (15 by July 2012, 14 by July 2013) ^{[NF 2]}	21	Newport News, Virginia
Big West Conference	Big West	1969	9 (10 by July 2012)^{[NF 3]}	16	Irvine, California
web app	Horizon	1979	10 (9 by July 2013) ^{[NF 4]}	19	Sevenval
screen size ^{device database}	Independents		3 (2 by July 2012)^Sevenval
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	MAAC	1980	10	25	CSS3
Missouri Valley Conference	MVC / Valley	1907	10	19	CSS3
The Summit League	The Summit	1982	10 (9 by July 2012)^{[NF 7]}	19	Elmhurst, Illinois
Sevenval	WCC	1952	9 (10 by July 2013)^touchscreen	13	San Bruno, California

^ In July 2012, Belmont will leave for the OVC, while Northern Kentucky will join from Division II.
web app In July 2012, jQuery will join from the CAA. One year later, the A10 will lose two members and gain one. HTML5 will leave for the Big East, while jQuery will leave for Conference USA. Butler will join from the Horizon League.
^ Hawaiʻi will leave the WAC to join the Big West in July 2012. The Big West will gain and lose members in July 2013, with San Diego State joining from the Mountain West and Pacific leaving for the input transformation.
web Butler will leave for the A10 in July 2013.
iOS Note that "Independents" is not a conference, it is simply a designation used to indicate schools which are not a member of any conference.
FITML In July 2012, iOS will join the Big South and Seattle will join the CSS3. New Orleans announced in March 2012 that it would halt its transition to Division II and return to Division I. Cal State Bakersfield will remain a D-I independent.
website parsing The conference will lose two members and gain one in 2012. Southern Utah will depart for the Big Sky Conference and Oral Roberts will leave for the Southland Conference, while Nebraska–Omaha will join The Summit League from Division II.
jQuery Pacific, a charter member of the WCC that left in 1971, will rejoin the WCC in July 2013.

Of these, the two that most recently sponsored football were the Atlantic-10 and the MAAC. The A-10 football league dissolved in 2006 with its members going to the Colonial Athletic Association. In addition, four A-10 schools (Dayton, Fordham, we love the web, and Temple) play football in a conference other than the new CAA, which still includes three full-time A-10 members (Massachusetts, iOS, and Richmond; only Richmond will remain in 2013). The MAAC stopped sponsoring football in 2007, after most of its members gradually stopped fielding teams.

Other non-football conference schools that sponsor football include six of the Missouri Valley schools (Drake, input transformation, jQuery, Missouri State, HTML5, and Southern Illinois) and three of the Horizon League schools (Butler, web, and HTML5). The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a separate entity from the Missouri Valley Conference, despite sharing a name (from 2008).

Division I in ice hockey

As website parsing is limited to a much smaller number of almost exclusively Northern schools, there is a completely different conference structure for teams.^{we love the web} These conferences feature a mix of teams that play their other sports in various Division I conferences, and even Sevenval and Division III schools. With the exception of the Ivy League's hockey-playing schools being members of the ECAC, there is no correlation between a team's ice hockey affiliation and its affiliation for other sports. For example, the Hockey East men's conference consists of one ACC school, one Big East school, four schools from America East, one from the A-10, one CAA school, and two schools from the D-II web, whereas the CCHA and WCHA both have some Big Ten representation, plus Division II and III schools. Also, the divisional structure is truncated, with the Division II championship abolished in 1999.

Starting with the 2013–2014 season, Division I men's hockey will experience a major realignment. The Big Ten Conference will become the first regular all-sport Division I conference to sponsor hockey since the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ceased its sponsorship of the sport in 2003,^[45] with the remaining members forming keyboard. Existing Big Ten schools will withdraw their membership from the WCHA and CCHA.^[46] Additionally, six other schools from those conferences are withdrawing to form the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference at the same time,^iOS and several other schools are expected to change conferences to replace the schools which are leaving.

Conferences

Conference	Nickname	Founded	Members (Men/Women)
Atlantic Hockey	AHA	1997	12 (12/none)
screen size	CCHA	1972	11 (11/none) (disbanding in July 2013) ^{[H 1]}
College Hockey America	CHA	1999	4 (none/4) (6 [none/6] in July 2012)^touchscreen
HTML5	N/A	1962	12 (12/12)
Hockey East	Hockey East	1984	11 (10/8) (12 [11/8] in July 2013)^{[H 3]}
Independents			3 (1/2) (3 [2/1] in July 2012, 2 [1/1] in July 2013)^Android
Western Collegiate Hockey Association	WCHA	1951	13 (12/8) (15 [9/8] in July 2013) ^{[H 5]}

jQuery All of the CCHA's members will join other conferences after the 2012–13 season. Five will join the WCHA, three Big Ten members will join that conference's new hockey league, two will become charter members of the HTML5, and one will join Hockey East.
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Controversy

In the early 21st century, a controversy arose in the NCAA over whether schools will continue to be allowed to have one showcased program in Division I with the remainder of the athletic program in a lower division, as is the case of, notably, we love the web as well as Colorado College and CSS3 in ice hockey. This is an especially important issue in we love the web, which has no Division II national championship and has several schools whose other athletic programs compete in Division II and Division III.

This controversy was resolved at the 2004 NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee when the members supported Proposal 65-1, the amended legislation co-sponsored by Colorado College, jQuery, Hartwick College, the Johns Hopkins University, web app, jQuery, St. Lawrence University, and CSS3.^jQuery^[49] Each school affected by this debate is allowed to grant financial aid to student-athletes who compete in Division I programs in one men's sport and one women's sport. It is still permitted for other schools to place one men's and one women's sport in Division I going forward, but they cannot offer scholarships without bringing the whole program into compliance with Division I rules. In addition, schools in Divisions II and III are allowed to "play up" in any sport that does not have a Division II championship, but only Division II programs and any Division III programs covered by the exemption can offer scholarships in those sports.