2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season

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For the 2022 FCS season, see 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
2022 NCAA Division I FBS season
Number of teams 131
Duration August 27, 2022–December 10, 2022
Post-season
Duration December 16, 2022 – January 9, 2023
Bowl games 44 scheduled
AP Poll #1 TBD
Coaches Poll #1 TBD
College Football Playoff
2023 College Football Playoff National Championship
Site SoFi Stadium
Inglewood, California
Division I FBS football seasons
← 2021
2023 →

The 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season will be the 153rd season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at its highest level of competition, the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The regular season is scheduled to begin on August 27 and end on December 10. The postseason will begin on December 16, and, aside from any all-star games that are scheduled, end on January 9, 2023, with the College Football Playoff National Championship at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. This will be the ninth season of the College Football Playoff (CFP) system.

Rule changes

The following rule changes were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2022 season.[1]

  • In games featuring instant replay, when players are disqualified for a targeting call in the second half or in overtime (which requires a carryover penalty of sitting out the first half of the next scheduled game), an appeal process will be available to allow the National Coordinator of Officials (currently Steve Shaw) to review tapes of the targeting penalty for consideration of not requiring the player to sit out the first half of the following game.
  • Injury timeouts awarded due to "deceptive actions" during a game will also be able to be reviewed by the National Coordinator of Officials to determine what sanctions, if any, against teams who use this tactic, enforced at the conference or school level.
  • Blocking below the waist will only be permitted inside the tackle box by linemen and stationary backs. Blocks below the waist outside of the tackle box are not allowed.
  • Players who commit illegal blocks or contact after a signal for a fair catch is changed from a 15-yard penalty to a 10-yard penalty, and is no longer considered a personal foul.
  • Defensive holding will remain a 10-yard penalty but will now always carry an automatic first down. Previously automatic first downs on defensive holding were awarded if the quarterback attempted a pass.
  • Codifying the rule change made shortly after the 2021 ACC Championship Game, ball carriers who simulate a feet-first slide will be declared down at that spot. This rule has informally been referred to as the "Kenny Pickett Rule".
  • Players who commit unsportsmanlike conduct penalties during a pass or run play will have the 15-yard penalty enforced from the end of the run/pass like a personal foul penalty.
  • Uniform rules were changed to require the sock/leg covering to go from the shoe to the bottom of the pants, similar to the NFL rule.
  • Illegal touching (intentional) of a forward pass by an ineligible receiver now includes a loss of down penalty in addition to the yardage (5-yards).

Points of Emphasis for the 2022 season include:[2]

  • Defining the "Crown of the helmet" more clearly for determining indicators for targeting. The forehead of the helmet is no longer an indicator of targeting.
  • Officials are instructed to err on the side of caution and call an injury time-out if a player is exhibiting concussion symptoms.
  • More strictly enforcing disconcerting signal penalties on the defensive side of the ball by calling penalties on defenders who make quick, abrupt, or exaggerated actions, using a similar cadence or words as the offense, and using the "clap" with the intent on causing the offense to false start.
  • Continuing tightening up enforcement of taunting and sideline control.
  • Including passers in a passing posture with his focus downfield as a defenseless player for the purpose of determining indicators of targeting and/or roughing the passer.

Other headlines

  • March 1 – The Sun Belt Conference released its 2022 football schedule. Notably, the schedule included Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss, schools that had announced their departure from Conference USA and were then in a dispute with C-USA regarding their departure date, with Marshall having sued C-USA. The SBC release did not mention the dispute or the possibility that the three schools would not be able to join for the 2022 season.[3]
  • March 29 – C-USA and the three aforementioned schools reached a settlement that allowed said schools to join the SBC in July 2022.[4]
  • May 18 – The NCAA Division I Council voted to approve multiple changes to football administrative rules. Among these changes:[5]
    • Restrictions on how conferences determine which teams qualify for their conference title games were removed. The Pac-12 Conference was the first conference to scrap its divisions for the 2022 season. While it will continue its division-based scheduling model for that season, it announced that it would consider other models for future seasons.[6]
    • All annual signing limits were removed for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 academic years. Only the overall scholarship limits (85 players receiving athletically-related financial aid throughout D-I football, with 63 full scholarship equivalents in FCS) remain in place for those seasons.
    • A win over an FCS team will count toward bowl eligibility if the FCS team awards at least 80% of that subdivision's limit of 63 scholarship equivalents over a two-year rolling period, down from the previous 90%. This made permanent a change that the NCAA had made on an ad hoc basis in 2020.
    • The Council made permanent a set of criteria, originally established on an ad hoc basis in 2020, for filling bowl slots in seasons when the number of bowl slots is greater than the number of teams with .500 records.
  • May 20 – The Mountain West Conference announced that it would eliminate its football divisions starting with the 2023 season.[7]
  • June 10 – The American Athletic Conference and the three schools set to depart from that league (Cincinnati, Houston, UCF) announced that they had reached a buyout agreement that will allow those schools to join the Big 12 Conference in 2023.[8]
  • June 16 – The American confirmed the 2023 entry date for the six schools scheduled to join that league from Conference USA—Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA.[9]
  • June 28 – The ACC approved a new football schedule format after the May 18 NCAA ruling. Starting in 2023, the conference will abandon its divisional model in favor of a "3–5–5" format in which each team plays 3 permanent rivals and 5 other conference teams each season, with the non-permanent opponents rotating so that each team will play every other conference member at least once home and once away in a four-year cycle. Under this format, the championship game will feature the top two teams in the conference standings.[10][11]
  • June 30 – The Big Ten Conference announced that UCLA and USC would join from the Pac-12 Conference in 2024, immediately after the current Pac-12 media contracts expire.[12][13]
  • July 5 - In response to the move by USC and UCLA to the Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference was reported to have six teams from the Pac-12 Conference under consideration for conference membership: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and Washington. [14]

Conference realignment

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Main article: 2021–22 NCAA conference realignment

One school is playing its first FBS season in 2022. James Madison started a transition from Division I FCS in 2022, joining the Sun Belt Conference. As a full Sun Belt member, it will meet FBS scheduling requirements in the 2022 season, allowing it to be counted as an FBS opponent for scheduling purposes.[15] (Normally, this status would not be available until the second transitional season.)

Three other schools joined the Sun Belt from Conference USA in 2022. Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss, while initially reported to be making said move in 2023, announced their intent to move in 2022. C-USA had insisted that all three were bound to that league through the 2022–23 school year. Following a brief legal dispute,[16] the parties reached a settlement allowing the schools to leave at the end of June.[4]

School Former conference New conference
James Madison CAA (FCS) Sun Belt
Marshall C-USA Sun Belt
Old Dominion C-USA Sun Belt
Southern Miss C-USA Sun Belt

The 2022 season is expected to be the last for 12 FBS schools in their current conferences or as FBS independents:

School Former conference New conference
BYU Independent Big 12
Charlotte C-USA American
Cincinnati American Big 12
Florida Atlantic C-USA American
Houston American Big 12
Liberty Independent C-USA
New Mexico State Independent C-USA
North Texas C-USA American
Rice C-USA American
UAB C-USA American
UCF American Big 12
UTSA C-USA American

In addition to James Madison, two other FCS schools started transitions to FBS in the 2022 season.[17] They will not join their future FBS conferences until 2023.

Stadiums

This will be the first season for San Diego State at Snapdragon Stadium, replacing the since-demolished San Diego Stadium after playing at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson for two seasons in 2020 and 2021. The Aztecs will play their first game in the new stadium against the Arizona Wildcats on September 3, 2022.[18]

Kickoff games

Rankings reflect the AP Poll entering each week.

"Week Zero"

The regular season will begin on Saturday, August 27 with eleven games in Week 0.

Week 1

The majority (85%) of FBS teams will open the season on Labor Day weekend. Three neutral-site "kickoff" games will be held.

Regular season top 10 matchups

Rankings reflect the AP Poll. Rankings for Week 10 and beyond will list College Football Playoff Rankings first and AP Poll second. Teams that failed to be a top 10 team for one poll or the other will be noted.

FCS team wins over FBS teams

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Upsets

This section lists instances of unranked teams defeating AP Poll-ranked teams during the season.

Regular season

During the regular season, 0 unranked FBS teams, plus 0 FCS team, defeated ranked FBS teams.

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See also: 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings § AP Poll

Conference standings

Template:2022 American Athletic Conference football standings
2022 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Atlantic Division
No. 4 Clemson   4 – 0         6 – 0  
No. 18 Syracuse   2 – 0         5 – 0  
Florida State   2 – 2         4 – 2  
No. 15 NC State   1 – 1         5 – 1  
No. 14 Wake Forest   1 – 1         5 – 1  
Boston College   1 – 3         2 – 4  
Louisville   1 – 3         3 – 3  
Coastal Division
North Carolina   2 – 0         5 – 1  
Georgia Tech   2 – 1         3 – 3  
Duke   1 – 1         4 – 2  
Pittsburgh   1 – 1         4 – 2  
Virginia Tech   1 – 2         2 – 4  
Miami (FL)   0 – 1         2 – 3  
Virginia   0 – 3         2 – 4  
Championship: December 3, 2022
As of August 18, 2024; Rankings from AP Poll
2022 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East Division
No. 3 Michigan xy$^   9 – 0         13 – 1  
No. 4 Ohio State ^   8 – 1         11 – 2  
No. 7 Penn State   7 – 2         11 – 2  
Maryland   4 – 5         8 – 5  
Michigan State   3 – 6         5 – 7  
Indiana   2 – 7         4 – 8  
Rutgers   1 – 8         4 – 8  
West Division
Purdue xy   6 – 3         8 – 6  
Illinois   5 – 4         8 – 5  
Iowa   5 – 4         8 – 5  
Minnesota   5 – 4         9 – 4  
Wisconsin   4 – 5         7 – 6  
Nebraska   3 – 6         4 – 8  
Northwestern   1 – 8         1 – 11  
Championship: Michigan 43, Purdue 22
  • ^ – College Football Playoff participant
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll
Template:2022 Big 12 Conference football standings Template:2022 Conference USA football standings Template:2022 Mid-American Conference football standings
Template:2022 Mountain West Conference football standings Template:2022 Pac-12 Conference football standings
2022 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East Division
No. 1 Georgia   2 – 0         5 – 0  
No. 8 Tennessee   1 – 0         4 – 0  
No. 7 Kentucky   1 – 1         4 – 1  
Vanderbilt   0 – 1         3 – 2  
South Carolina   0 – 2         3 – 2  
Florida   0 – 2         2 – 2  
Missouri   0 – 2         2 – 3  
West Division
No. 2 Alabama   2 – 0         5 – 0  
LSU   2 – 0         4 – 1  
No. 14 Ole Miss   1 – 0         5 – 0  
Mississippi State   1 – 1         4 – 1  
Auburn   1 – 1         3 – 2  
No. 17 Texas A&M   1 – 1         3 – 2  
No. 20 Arkansas   1 – 2         3 – 2  
Championship: December 3, 2022
As of August 18, 2024; Rankings from AP Poll
Template:2022 Sun Belt Conference football standings Template:2022 NCAA Division I FBS independents football records

Rankings

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Main article: 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings

The top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls.

Pre-season polls

AP
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USA Today Coaches
Ranking Team
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Postseason

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Main article: 2022–23 NCAA football bowl games

Bowl game changes:

Coaching changes

Preseason and in-season

This is restricted to coaching changes taking place on or after May 1, 2022, and will include any changes announced after a team's last regularly scheduled game but before its bowl game. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2022, see 2021 NCAA Division I FBS end-of-season coaching changes.

School Outgoing coach Date Reason Replacement
UAB Bill Clark June 24, 2022 Retired (effective August 1)[20] Bryant Vincent (interim)

End of season

This list includes coaching changes announced during the season that did not take effect until the end of the season.

School Outgoing coach Date Reason Replacement

Television viewers and ratings

Most watched regular season games

All times Eastern. Rankings are from the AP Poll (before 11/2) and CFP Rankings (thereafter).


See also

Notes

References

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