NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions in the United States whose football programs are not part of a football conference. This does not mean that FCS independents schedule each other for competition as conference schools do.
Independent institutions
Current institutions
Charlotte began play in 2013 and is spending its first two seasons as an FCS independent. Charlotte rejoined Conference USA (C-USA) in 2013 (it had been a charter member of that conference in 1995, but left in 2005), and will become a football member in 2015.
Five other schools had competed as FCS independents in the 2013 season, but joined football conferences in July 2014:
- Old Dominion (ODU), which began a transition to FBS in 2013, became a football member of Conference USA, which it had joined as a full but non-football member in 2013. As a second-year transitional school that had a pre-existing FCS program (unlike Charlotte, which did not start its football program until announcing its FBS transition in 2013), ODU is counted as an FBS member for scheduling purposes in 2014. It will become a full FBS member in 2015.
- Monmouth left the Northeast Conference (NEC) for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), which does not sponsor football, in July 2013. In February 2013, the Big South Conference announced that the Monmouth football team would become a single-sport associate member beginning with the 2014 season. Monmouth played as an FCS independent in 2013 in order to better manage its transition from the NEC, which limits its members to 40 full scholarship equivalents, to the Big South, which allows the FCS maximum of 63.
- The other three schools, all of which had joined the Southland Conference (SLC) as full but non-football members in 2013, became football members of that conference.
- Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word had established football programs; they started transitions from Division II to Division I upon joining the SLC. Both played schedules mostly made up of teams from the SLC and their former Division II league, the Lone Star Conference. They began full transitions to Division I status in football in 2014 and will become eligible for the Southland title and the FCS playoffs beginning with the 2018 season.
- Houston Baptist (HBU) played a partial schedule as an FCS independent in 2013. HBU was not eligible for the FCS playoffs, but that season did not count against eligibility for the team players. HBU is fully eligible for the SLC title and the FCS playoffs from 2014 forward.
Stadiums
Former FCS independents
The following is a complete list of teams which have been Division I-AA/FCS Independents since the formation of Division I-AA in 1978. The "Current Conference" column indicates affiliations for the 2014 college football season.
Teams in italics are current FBS members; this includes second-year transitional schools that are counted as FBS for scheduling purposes but not bowl game eligibility.
See also
- NCAA Division I FBS independent schools
- NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball)
- NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey)
- NCAA Division II independent schools
- NCAA Division III independent schools
- NAIA independent schools
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