This is a List of NCAA Division I non-football programs – colleges and universities that are members of
Division I of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association but do not sponsor varsity
football teams. Before 2006, these schools were officially designated as Division I–AAA. This list includes schools in the process of transitioning to Division I, but are not yet full D–I members. Some
have had football teams in the past (Y); some
never have (N).
Five Division I schools compete in
sprint football, a variant governed separately from the NCAA that uses NCAA playing rules, but limits player weights to 178 pounds (81 kg). Four of them also field full-sized football teams; the only one that does not is Bellarmine, which is thus still considered "non-football" by the NCAA.
* = These schools had football teams when they were junior colleges, but none have since becoming universities.
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abBegan transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2020. Full D-I membership in 2024.
^Bellarmine added sprint football in the 2022–23 school year.[2]
^The BU campus has a Binghamton mailing address, but the core of the campus and almost all athletic facilities are in the adjacent town of
Vestal.
^The FGCU campus has a Fort Myers mailing address, but is physically in unincorporated
Lee County.
^The main George Mason campus has a Fairfax mailing address, but is located in unincorporated
Fairfax County and designated by the U.S. Census Bureau as
George Mason, Virginia.
^In 2024, the
Indiana University and
Purdue University systems will dissolve IUPUI, replacing it with separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions. The athletic program will transfer to the new IU Indianapolis. The future athletic brand name has yet to be announced; plausible brands include IU Indianapolis and IUI.[33]
^Began transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2023. Full D-I membership in 2027.
^The Le Moyne campus has a Syracuse mailing address, but virtually all of the campus is in the adjacent town of
DeWitt.
^The UMES campus has a Princess Anne mailing address, but lies in unincorporated
Somerset County.
^The Mount St. Mary's campus has an Emmitsburg mailing address, but lies in unincorporated
Frederick County.
^The Niagara campus is its own census-designated place and postal entity within the town of
Lewiston.
^The Oakland campus has a Rochester mailing address, but is split between the separate cities of
Auburn Hills and
Rochester Hills, with athletic facilities in both cities.
^The Pepperdine campus has a Malibu mailing address, but is physically outside the city limits in unincorporated
Los Angeles County.
^Purdue Fort Wayne (PFW) was founded in 2018 when
Indiana University and
Purdue University dissolved
Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), a joint campus of the two systems that had been established in 1964.[65] With more than 90% of the continuing enrollment of IPFW being inherited by PFW, the IPFW athletic program was transferred in its entirety to PFW.[66]
^
abBegan transition from NCAA Division II to Division I in July 2022. Full D-I membership in 2026.
^The U.S. Census Bureau classifies the St. Bonaventure campus as a census-designated place within the town of
Allegany. The U.S. Postal Service treats the campus as its own entity.
^The Saint Joseph's campus straddles the
boundary between Philadelphia and
Lower Merion Township. Athletic facilities are in both communities. but the university administration and core of the undergraduate campus are in Philadelphia, and the entire campus has a Philadelphia mailing address.
^The campus has an Evansville mailing address, but is located outside the city limits in
Perry Township, a subdivision of
Vanderburgh County.
^La Jolla is a separate postal entity within the city of
San Diego.
^The UCSB campus has a Santa Barbara mailing address, but is physically outside of the city limits in
Isla Vista.
^UTRGV has multiple campuses throughout
its service area, but its athletic program is based at its Edinburg campus, which it inherited from one of its predecessor institutions, the
University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA).
^UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 by the merger of UTPA and the
University of Texas at Brownsville, with instruction starting in 2015.[99] UTRGV inherited its athletic program from UTPA,[100] which was founded in 1927 as the two-year Edinburg College.
^In January 2021, UTRGV explored its addition of a football team. The university has since confirmed that it will play an exhibition schedule in 2024 before starting full varsity play in 2025. UTRGV will play in the
United Athletic Conference, formed after the 2022 season by the de facto merger of the football league of UTRGV's primary home of the
Western Athletic Conference with that of the
ASUN Conference.[101][102][103]
^The Wright State campus has a Dayton mailing address, but is physically well to the east of the city limits in
Fairborn.