List of NCAA Division I schools that have never sponsored football

This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I schools that have never sponsored gridiron football as a varsity sport.

Name Location Nickname Primary conference Type Enrollment (total) Founded
Bellarmine University[lower-alpha 1] Louisville, Kentucky Knights ASUN Conference private, Catholic 3,750 1950
Belmont University Nashville, Tennessee Belmont Bruins Ohio Valley Conference private, liberal arts 7,244 1890
Binghamton University Vestal, New York Binghamton Bearcats America East Conference public 16,098 1946
California Baptist University[lower-alpha 2] Riverside, California Lancers Western Athletic Conference private, Christian 10,486 1950
California State University, Bakersfield Bakersfield, California Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners Big West Conference public 8,720 1965
Chicago State University Chicago, Illinois Chicago State Cougars Western Athletic Conference public 7,131 1867
Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland State Vikings Horizon League public 17,204 1923
Florida Gulf Coast University Lee County, Florida Florida Gulf Coast Eagles ASUN Conference public 14,673 1991
George Mason University near Fairfax, Virginia George Mason Patriots Atlantic 10 Conference public 33,917 1957
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana IUPUI Jaguars Horizon League public 30,461 1969
University of Missouri–Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City Roos Summit League public 15,746 1933
Lipscomb University Nashville, Tennessee Lipscomb Bisons ASUN Conference private 4,580 1891
University of Arkansas at Little Rock[lower-alpha 3] Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock Trojans Sun Belt Conference public 13,176 1927
Longwood University Farmville, Virginia Longwood Lancers Big South Conference public 4,800 1839
New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey NJIT Highlanders ASUN Conference public 10,646 1881
University of North Florida Jacksonville, Florida North Florida Ospreys ASUN Conference public 16,372 1972
Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, Kentucky Northern Kentucky Norse Horizon League public 14,566 1968
Oakland University Auburn Hills/Rochester Hills, Michigan Oakland Golden Grizzlies Horizon League public 20,169 1957
Oral Roberts University Tulsa, Oklahoma Oral Roberts Golden Eagles Summit League private, Christian 3,335 1965
Purdue University Fort Wayne[lower-alpha 4] Fort Wayne, Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons Horizon League public 10,208 1964
Quinnipiac University Hamden, Connecticut Quinnipiac Bobcats Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference private 9,000 1929
Radford University Radford, Virginia Radford Highlanders Big South Conference public 9,798 1910
Seattle University Seattle, Washington Seattle Redhawks Western Athletic Conference private, Jesuit 7,755 1891
University of South Carolina Upstate Spartanburg, South Carolina USC Upstate Spartans Big South Conference public 5,500 1967
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, Illinois SIU Edwardsville Cougars Ohio Valley Conference public 13,972 1957
University of California, Irvine Irvine, California UC Irvine Anteaters Big West Conference public, research 30,757 1965
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland UMBC Retrievers America East Conference public 13,979 1966
University of North Carolina at Asheville[lower-alpha 3] Asheville, North Carolina UNC Asheville Bulldogs Big South Conference public 3,644 1927
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina UNC Greensboro Spartans Southern Conference public 18,502 1891
University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina UNC Wilmington Seahawks Colonial Athletic Association public 12,743 1979
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley[lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 3] Edinburg, Texas[lower-alpha 6] Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros Western Athletic Conference public 28,700 1927/
2015[lower-alpha 7]
Utah Valley University Orem, Utah Utah Valley Wolverines Western Athletic Conference public 31,556 1941
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia VCU Rams Atlantic 10 Conference public 31,163 1838
Winthrop University Rock Hill, South Carolina Winthrop Eagles Big South Conference public 6,170 1886
Wright State University Dayton, Ohio Wright State Raiders Horizon League public 17,595 1967
  1. Begins transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2020. Full D-I membership in 2024.
  2. Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2018. Full D-I membership in 2022.
  3. These schools had football teams when they were junior colleges, but none have since becoming universities.
  4. 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".
  5. 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.[1] Nearly a year before the merger, the UT System announced that UTRGV would inherit the UTPA athletic program,[2] and later unveiled the new school's nickname as Vaqueros.
  6. UTRGV has six campuses throughout its service area, but its athletic program is based from the former UTPA main campus in Edinburg.
  7. 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.

See also

References
  1. "Project South Texas: Timeline". University of Texas System.
  2. "Project South Texas: Ask a Question". University of Texas System. July 30, 2014.
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