The College Football system is split into three divisions Division I FBS, Division I FCS. Division II and Division III. In division 2 football there are 282 schools.
353 347 in 32 divisions, and 6 independents.
During a game last week I heard that Memphis was on of the worst free throw shooting teams in NCAA 1Aa basketball at # 334 with only 7 worse meaning there is 341.
Because there are more universities than there are pro football cities. There are 32 NFL teams. There are 128 universities that participate in the Football Bowl Subdivision and 124 in the Football Championship Subdivision of Division I, plus 232 in Division II.
No, USC has never played a "Division II" football team. USC has played six games against current Division I-FCS teams, and is 6-0. USC has played 62 games against current Division III teams, and is 45-10-7. It's important to note that most of these games were played prior to the modern divisional format of the NCAA.
Right now there are 119 division 1 football teams ACC has 12 teams~ SEC-12~ Big 10-11~ Big 12-12~ Pac 10-10~ Big East-8~ Mountian West-9~ Conference USA-12~ WAC-9~ Independent-3~ MAC-13~ Sun Belt-8 but will be 9 when western Kentucky comes in from the other division
According to the College Football Data Warehouse: For the 2011 football season, the following teams won National Championships: Alabama - Division I-A North Dakota State - Division I-AA Pittsburg State (KS) - Division II Wisconsin-Whitewater - Division III
Assumption College plays Division II football in the Northeast-10 conference.
If you count only Division I - both FBS and FCS, there are 11 college football teams in California. Fresno St. California UCLA USC Stanford San Diego St. San Jose St. UC Davis Cal Poly Sacramento St. U. of San Diego This list does not include any teams from California that may belong to Division II or Division III.
In football, Division II programs rarely, if ever, play Division I-FBS programs. Each year, a handful of Division I-FCS (I-AA) schools lose to a Division II opponent. In basketball, Division II schools beat Division I schools annually, but most of the Division I programs are "low major" programs, meaning they are weak teams in weak conferences. The last "shocking" loss in basketball was in November, 2007 when #8 Michigan State lost at home to Division II Grand Valley State, 85-82 in double overtime.
Division II playing in the Gulf South Conference.
Typically, no. However, some NCAA sports are not sponsored at all levels. For instance, Ice Hockey is sponsored by the NCAA as a Division I sport and a Division III sport, but there is no NCAA Division II Ice Hockey. Division II institutions that sponsor Ice Hockey can "play up" in a sport not sponsored in their division. Examples include Michigan Tech, Northern Michigan, and Lake Superior State, all of which are members of the NCAA Division II. They all sponsor NCAA Division I Ice Hockey teams. Previously, Division II programs could play Division III Ice Hockey (such as Mercyhurst College in PA). That is no longer allowed (although Division II programs that were already in Division III Ice Hockey were allowed to stay and were not forced to move to Division I). In other sports, such as football or basketball, which are supported at all levels, the school must have all of their sports programs in the same division.
In the 2009 season, there are 120 Division 1-A football schools, 117 Division 1-AA football schools, and 150 Division II football schools.There are more than 60 "1-A" games a week because not all of the games pit two 1-A schools against each other.As an example, the start of the 2009 season saw the University of Virginia, a 1-A football school, play William and Mary, a 1-AA football school. Temple, a 1-A football school, played Villanova, a 1-AA football school. Duke, a 1-A football school, played University of Richmond, a 1-AA football school.