The 2023 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the

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(NCAA) at the Division II level, will begin on August 31 and will end on December 16 with the Division II championship at the McKinney Independent School District Stadium in

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* January 14 – At the 2023 NCAA Convention, the D-II football membership approved a change to

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rules to allow freshmen to play in up to three games without losing a season of athletic eligibility. * January 26 –

Conference Carolinas Conference Carolinas, formerly known as the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) or the Carolinas Conference, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) primarily at the Divisio ...

announced that Shorter University would join from the

Gulf South Conference The Gulf South Conference (GSC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, which operates in the Southeastern United States. History Originally known as the Mi ...

in 2024. This gave the conference 6 football sponsoring members, and accordingly, it was announced that they would begin sponsoring football again effective for the 2025 season, a sport they had previously discontinued in 1975. Inaugural members of the new league would be Barton and Erskine, who currently play in the

South Atlantic Conference The South Atlantic Conference (SAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, which operates in the southeastern United States. The SAC was founded in 1975 as a ...

; UNC Pembroke, who plays in the

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; and Chowan, North Greenville, and Shorter, who all play in the Gulf South Conference.

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