A list of

NCAA 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 ...

Division II

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

seasons since splitting away in 1973. Prior to then, Division II schools participated in the NCAA's ''College Division''.

Three Division Alignment (1973–1978)

Conference realignment

*The

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

, and all of its members, moved from Division II up to Division I in 1975 but returned to

Division I-AA The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, is the second-highest level of college football in the United States, after the Football Bowl Subdivision. Sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic ...

in 1982. *The Big Sky Conference, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference,

Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in t ...

, and Yankee Conference, and their respective members, moved from Division II into the newly founded

in 1978. *After forming as a league in 1980, the

Association of Mid-Continent Universities The Summit League, or The Summit, is an NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic conference with its membership mostly located in the Midwestern United States from Illinois on the East of the Mississippi River to the Dakotas and Nebraska on the W ...

, and all of its members, moved from Division II up to

in 1982. *The

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. The conference was originally formed in 1951 as the State Teachers C ...

, after competing as a

Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...

conference from 1973 to 1979, moved to Division II, along with all of its membership, in 1980.

Four Division Alignment (1978–present)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:List of NCAA Division II football seasons * *

Three Division Alignment (1973–1978)

Conference realignment

Four Division Alignment (1978–present)

See also

References