2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season

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2016 NCAA Division I FCS season
Playoff
Championship site Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas
Division I FCS football season

The 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, is organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level.

Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

School Former conference New conference
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Big South FCS independent
East Tennessee State Buccaneers FCS independent SoCon

*Note: Coastal Carolina will begin a two-year transition to FBS in 2016, playing as an FCS independent while housing most of its other sports in the FBS Sun Belt Conference. The Chanticleers will join Sun Belt football in 2017.[1]

Other headlines

  • January 29 – East Tennessee State and Bristol Motor Speedway announce that the Buccaneers' September 17 home game against Western Carolina, which will be ETSU's first Southern Conference game after a 12-season absence, will be played at the NASCAR racetrack. The playing surface will be a temporary grass field that will be installed for the TennesseeVirginia Tech game to be held one week earlier.[2]
  • April 20 – The NCAA banned five schools from this year's postseason for failure to meet Academic Progress Rate criteria. They are Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State, Savannah State and Southern.
  • April 28 – Following the March 1 announcement by the Sun Belt Conference that it would not renew its football-only membership agreements with Idaho and New Mexico State when they expire at the end of the 2017 season,[3] Idaho announces that it will return to FCS football in its all-sports league, the Big Sky Conference, in 2018.[4] The Vandals will become the first team ever to voluntarily drop from FBS to FCS.[5]

Updated stadiums

  • New Hampshire will debut a major renovation and expansion of the renamed Wildcat Stadium. The venue, previously with a capacity of 6,500, will now seat about 12,000.

Two teams are playing their final season in their current venues:

FCS team wins over FBS teams

Conference standings

2016 Big Sky football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Cal Poly   0 0         0 0  
Eastern Washington   0 0         0 0  
Idaho State   0 0         0 0  
Montana   0 0         0 0  
Montana State   0 0         0 0  
Northern Arizona   0 0         0 0  
Northern Colorado   0 0         0 0  
North Dakota   0 0         0 0  
Portland State   0 0         0 0  
Sacramento State   0 0         0 0  
Southern Utah   0 0         0 0  
UC Davis   0 0         0 0  
Weber State   0 0         0 0  
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 Big South football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Charleston Southern   0 0         0 0  
Gardner–Webb   0 0         0 0  
Kennesaw State   0 0         0 0  
Liberty   0 0         0 0  
Monmouth   0 0         0 0  
Presbyterian   0 0         0 0  
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 CAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Albany   0 0         0 0  
Delaware   0 0         0 0  
Elon   0 0         0 0  
James Madison   0 0         0 0  
Maine   0 0         0 0  
New Hampshire   0 0         0 0  
Rhode Island   0 0         0 0  
Richmond   0 0         0 0  
Stony Brook   0 0         0 0  
Towson   0 0         0 0  
Villanova   0 0         0 0  
William & Mary   0 0         0 0  
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 Ivy League football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Brown   0 0         0 0  
Columbia   0 0         0 0  
Cornell   0 0         0 0  
Dartmouth   0 0         0 0  
Harvard   0 0         0 0  
Penn   0 0         0 0  
Princeton   0 0         0 0  
Yale   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 MEAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Bethune-Cookman   0 0         0 0  
Delaware State   0 0         0 0  
Florida A&M*   0 0         0 0  
Hampton   0 0         0 0  
Howard*   0 0         0 0  
Morgan State*   0 0         0 0  
Norfolk State   0 0         0 0  
North Carolina A&T   0 0         0 0  
North Carolina Central   0 0         0 0  
Savannah State*   0 0         0 0  
South Carolina State   0 0         0 0  
  • Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State and Savannah State ineligible for postseason due to APR violations
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 MVFC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Illinois State   0 0         0 0  
Indiana State   0 0         0 0  
Missouri State   0 0         0 0  
Northern Iowa   0 0         0 0  
North Dakota State   0 0         0 0  
Southern Illinois   0 0         0 0  
South Dakota   0 0         0 0  
South Dakota State   0 0         0 0  
Western Illinois   0 0         0 0  
Youngstown State   0 0         0 0  
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 NEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Bryant   0 0         0 0  
Central Connecticut   0 0         0 0  
Duquesne   0 0         0 0  
Robert Morris   0 0         0 0  
Saint Francis (PA)   0 0         0 0  
Sacred Heart   0 0         0 0  
Wagner   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 OVC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Austin Peay   0 0         0 0  
Eastern Illinois   0 0         0 0  
Eastern Kentucky   0 0         0 0  
Jacksonville State   0 0         0 0  
Murray State   0 0         0 0  
SE Missouri State   0 0         0 0  
Tennessee–Martin   0 0         0 0  
Tennessee State   0 0         0 0  
Tennessee Tech   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 Patriot League football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Bucknell   0 0         0 0  
Colgate   0 0         0 0  
Fordham   0 0         0 0  
Georgetown   0 0         0 0  
Holy Cross   0 0         0 0  
Lafayette   0 0         0 0  
Lehigh   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 Pioneer Football League standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Butler   0 0         0 0  
Campbell   0 0         0 0  
Davidson   0 0         0 0  
Dayton   0 0         0 0  
Drake   0 0         0 0  
Jacksonville   0 0         0 0  
Marist   0 0         0 0  
Morehead State   0 0         0 0  
San Diego   0 0         0 0  
Stetson   0 0         0 0  
Valparaiso   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 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  
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 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  
SE Louisiana   0 0         0 0  
Stephen F. Austin   0 0         0 0  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word ineligible for FCS Playoffs due to transition from Division II
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
2016 SWAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East
Alabama A&M   0 0         0 0  
Alabama State   0 0         0 0  
Alcorn State   0 0         0 0  
Jackson State   0 0         0 0  
Mississippi Valley State   0 0         0 0  
West
Arkansas–Pine Bluff   0 0         0 0  
Grambling State   0 0         0 0  
Prairie View A&M   0 0         0 0  
Southern*   0 0         0 0  
Texas Southern   0 0         0 0  
Championship: vs. (December 3)
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
  • Southern ineligible for postseason due to APR violations
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

Conference summaries

Championship games

Other conference winners

Abstentions

Postseason

NCAA FCS Playoff bracket

Coaching changes

Preseason and in-season

This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2016. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2016, see 2015 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

See also

References

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