2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season

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2019 NCAA Division I FCS season
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Duration August 24 – November 30
Playoff
Duration November 30 – December 21
Championship site Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas
Champion North Dakota State
Payton Award Trey Lance, QB, North Dakota State
Buchanan Award Dante Olson, LB, Montana
Division I FCS football season

The 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The FCS Championship Game was played on January 11, 2020, in Frisco, Texas.[1] North Dakota State entered the season as the defending champion,[2] and after completing the regular season undefeated, successfully defended their title and secured their eighth championship in nine seasons.[3]

Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

School Former conference New conference
Hampton Pirates FCS independent Big South
LIU Sharks[lower-alpha 1] NE-10 (D-II) NEC
Merrimack Warriors NE-10 (D-II) NEC
North Alabama Lions FCS independent Big South
North Dakota Fighting Hawks Big Sky FCS independent[lower-alpha 2]
Savannah State Tigers MEAC SIAC (D-II)
  1. ↑ Following the 2018–19 school year, Long Island University merged its two then-existing athletic programs—the Division I non-football LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and Division II football-sponsoring LIU Post Pioneers—into a single Division I program that now competes as the LIU Sharks. The Sharks inherited LIU Brooklyn's membership in the Northeast Conference, with the former Post football team joining the NEC alongside most of LIU's other sports.
  2. ↑ North Dakota will officially join the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020, and is classified as an FCS independent for 2018 and 2019. However, to accommodate pre-existing game contracts, it still played its Big Sky Conference schedule and conference games counted for their opponents.

The 2019 season was the last for Presbyterian in Big South Conference football. The school announced in 2017 that it had begun a transition to non-scholarship football. Presbyterian will play the 2020 season as an FCS independent before joining the non-scholarship FCS Pioneer Football League in 2021; it will remain a full but non-football Big South member.

This was also the final season for Jacksonville football, as the school announced shortly after the end of the season that it was dropping the sport.[4]

Rule changes

The following playing rule changes have been recommended by the NCAA Football Rules Committee for 2019:[5]

  • Requiring replay reviews on targeting calls be either confirmed or overturned by reviewing all aspects of the play. If the review shows not all elements of targeting exist or if there is no indisputable video evidence, the call will be overturned.
  • Players who commit a second targeting penalty in the same season will not only have to sit out the remainder of that game, but will also have to sit out their team's entire next scheduled game.
  • Eliminating the two-man wedge on kickoffs.
  • Starting with the fifth overtime period, each team will line up to attempt a two-point conversion instead of snapping the ball from the 25-yard-line. Successful plays are scored as conversions.
  • Adding a two-minute break after the second and fourth overtime period.
  • Blindside blocks delivered with forcible contact will draw a 15-yard penalty (personal foul). If elements of targeting exist, the player delivering the block will be subject to ejection as with any other targeting foul.

All FCS teams were allowed to schedule 12 regular season games in the 2019 season. A standard provision of NCAA bylaws allows for 12 regular season games during years having 14 Saturdays in the period starting with the Labor Day (first Monday in September) weekend and ending with the last Saturday of November. The next time that a 12-game regular season will be allowed is 2024.[6]

"Week Zero"

The regular season began with two games on Saturday, August 24:

FCS team wins over FBS teams

(FCS rankings from the STATS poll, FBS rankings from the AP poll.)

Non-DI team wins over FCS teams

Conference standings

Template:2019 Big Sky Conference football standings Template:2019 Big South Conference football standings Template:2019 Colonial Athletic Association football standings
Template:2019 Ivy League football standings Template:2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football standings Template:2019 Missouri Valley Football Conference standings
Template:2019 Northeast Conference football standings Template:2019 Ohio Valley Conference football standings Template:2019 Patriot League football standings
Template:2019 Pioneer Football League standings
2019 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Chattanooga   0 – 0         0 – 0  
The Citadel   0 – 0         0 – 0  
East Tennessee State   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Furman   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Mercer   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Samford   0 – 0         0 – 0  
VMI   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Western Carolina   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Wofford   0 – 0         0 – 0  
2019 Southland Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Abilene Christian   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Central Arkansas   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Houston Baptist   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Incarnate Word   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Lamar   0 – 0         0 – 0  
McNeese State   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Nicholls State   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Northwestern State   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Sam Houston State   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Southeastern Louisiana   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Stephen F. Austin   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Template:2019 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings Template:2019 NCAA Division I FCS independents football standings

Postseason

A 24-team single-elimination tournament bracket culminated in the 2020 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game. Champions of the following 10 conferences automatically received playoff bids:[7]

Teams were announced in a selection show on November 24, with the top eight teams seeded and receiving first-round byes.[8]

NCAA Division I playoff bracket

Template:24TeamBracket-Info Source:[9]

Bowl games

Date Game Site Television Participants Affiliations Results
Dec. 21 Celebration Bowl Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Atlanta, Georgia
12:00 p.m.		 ABC North Carolina A&T Aggies (8–3)
Alcorn State Braves (9–3)		 MEAC
SWAC		 North Carolina A&T 64
Alcorn State 44

Coaching changes

Preseason and in-season

This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2019. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2019, see 2018 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

School Outgoing coach Date Reason Replacement
Howard Ron Prince November 6 Placed on administrative leavedagger Aaron Kelton (interim)

dagger Prince was placed on administrative leave by the university, "after allegations of verbal abuse and intimidation of players."[10]

End of season

School Outgoing coach Date Reason Replacement
Gardner–Webb Carroll McCray November 24 Fired Tre Lamb
Mercer Bobby Lamb November 24 Fired Drew Cronic
Murray State Mitch Stewart November 24 Reassigned within athletic department Dean Hood
Northern Colorado Earnest Collins Jr. November 24 Fired Ed McCaffrey
Eastern Kentucky Mark Elder November 25 Contract not renewed Walt Wells
Lamar Mike Schultz November 25 Fired Blane Morgan
Cal Poly Tim Walsh November 25 Retired Beau Baldwin
Jacksonville Ian Shields December 3 Program discontinued None
Wagner Jason Houghtaling December 6 Fired Tom Masella
Howard Ron Prince December 6 Resigned[11] Larry Scott
Missouri State Dave Steckel January 9 Fired Bobby Petrino
McNeese State Sterlin Gilbert January 12 Became OC at Syracuse Frank Wilson
Youngstown State Bo Pelini January 27 Became DC at LSU Doug Phillips
Arkansas Pine-Bluff Cedric Thomas February 17 Became DB coach at Southern Miss Doc Gamble

See also

Notes

References

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