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As of the 2023 season, there are 133 Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) teams and 126 Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) teams, making a total of 259 Division I college football teams. This number can fluctuate slightly with conference realignments and institutional changes.
FBS stands for Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly called Division I-A. This is in contrast to the FCS, or Football Championship Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-AA. The "Bowl" vs "Championship" refers to how the 2 divisions play their post-season, with the former Division I-A teams playing in bowl games and the former Division I-AA teams playing in a playoff series culminating with a true national championship game.
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2 NFL football teams, each a division champion of the AFC and the NFC, play against each other.It is the football championship game of each year.
The BCS championship game is the Bowl Championship Series which creates five of the bowl match-ups, including ten of the top ranked teams in the United States.
In the NFL, a total of 14 teams advance to the playoffs. This includes seven teams from the American Football Conference (AFC) and seven from the National Football Conference (NFC). The teams consist of the four division winners and three wild card teams from each conference. The playoff structure culminates in the Super Bowl, where the conference champions compete for the championship title.
The Super Bowl
NFL team do not give rings to teams that lose the Super Bowl. Losing teams get a Conference Championship ring for wining their conference championship game, but not one for participating in the Super Bowl.
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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.
About 13 or 14 weeks. Not counting the post-season bowl games which span about six weeks, each NCAA football team plays 12 games and has 1 bye week within the season. Teams with the best rankings in their division may play in a conference championship game, and the bowl games will include a National Championship Game now operated under the BCS (Bowl Championship System).
In NCAA division 2 there is a playoff that culminates in a championship game. Imagine that.