This is a List of NCAA Division I non-football programs – colleges and universities that are members of
Division I of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
but do not sponsor varsity
football
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teams. Before 2006, these schools were officially designated as Division I–AAA. This list includes schools in the process of transitioning to Division I, but are not yet full D–I members. Some
have had football teams in the past (); some never have ().
Five Division I schools compete in
sprint football
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, a variant governed separately from the NCAA that uses NCAA playing rules, but limits player weights to . Four of them also field full-sized football teams; the only one that does not is Bellarmine, which is thus still considered "non-football" by the NCAA.
* * = These schools had football teams when they were junior colleges, but none have since becoming universities.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
College football-related lists
Non-football programs