2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season

2016 NCAA Division I FCS season
Playoff
Championship site	Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas
Division I FCS football season
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The 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, is organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level.

Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

School	Former conference	New conference
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	Big South	FCS independent
East Tennessee State Buccaneers	FCS independent	SoCon

*Note: Coastal Carolina will begin a two-year transition to FBS in 2016, playing as an FCS independent while housing most of its other sports in the FBS Sun Belt Conference. The Chanticleers will join Sun Belt football in 2017.^[1]

Other headlines

January 29 – East Tennessee State and Bristol Motor Speedway announce that the Buccaneers' September 17 home game against Western Carolina, which will be ETSU's first Southern Conference game after a 12-season absence, will be played at the NASCAR racetrack. The playing surface will be a temporary grass field that will be installed for the Tennessee–Virginia Tech game to be held one week earlier.^[2]
April 20 – The NCAA banned five schools from this year's postseason for failure to meet Academic Progress Rate criteria. They are Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State, Savannah State and Southern.
April 28 – Following the March 1 announcement by the Sun Belt Conference that it would not renew its football-only membership agreements with Idaho and New Mexico State when they expire at the end of the 2017 season,^[3] Idaho announces that it will return to FCS football in its all-sports league, the Big Sky Conference, in 2018.^[4] The Vandals will become the first team ever to voluntarily drop from FBS to FCS.^[5]

Conference standings

2016 Big Sky football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Cal Poly		0	–	0		0	–	0
Eastern Washington		0	–	0		0	–	0
Idaho State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Montana		0	–	0		0	–	0
Montana State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Northern Arizona		0	–	0		0	–	0
Northern Colorado		0	–	0		0	–	0
North Dakota		0	–	0		0	–	0
Portland State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Sacramento State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Southern Utah		0	–	0		0	–	0
UC Davis		0	–	0		0	–	0
Weber State		0	–	0		0	–	0

Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Big South football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Charleston Southern		0	–	0		0	–	0
Gardner–Webb		0	–	0		0	–	0
Kennesaw State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Liberty		0	–	0		0	–	0
Monmouth		0	–	0		0	–	0
Presbyterian		0	–	0		0	–	0

Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 CAA football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Albany		0	–	0		0	–	0
Delaware		0	–	0		0	–	0
Elon		0	–	0		0	–	0
James Madison		0	–	0		0	–	0
Maine		0	–	0		0	–	0
New Hampshire		0	–	0		0	–	0
Rhode Island		0	–	0		0	–	0
Richmond		0	–	0		0	–	0
Stony Brook		0	–	0		0	–	0
Towson		0	–	0		0	–	0
Villanova		0	–	0		0	–	0
William & Mary		0	–	0		0	–	0

Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Ivy League football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Brown		0	–	0		0	–	0
Columbia		0	–	0		0	–	0
Cornell		0	–	0		0	–	0
Dartmouth		0	–	0		0	–	0
Harvard		0	–	0		0	–	0
Penn		0	–	0		0	–	0
Princeton		0	–	0		0	–	0
Yale		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 MEAC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Bethune-Cookman		0	–	0		0	–	0
Delaware State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Florida A&M*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Hampton		0	–	0		0	–	0
Howard*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Morgan State*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Norfolk State		0	–	0		0	–	0
North Carolina A&T		0	–	0		0	–	0
North Carolina Central		0	–	0		0	–	0
Savannah State*		0	–	0		0	–	0
South Carolina State		0	–	0		0	–	0

Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State and Savannah State ineligible for postseason due to APR violations Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 MVFC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Illinois State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Indiana State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Missouri State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Northern Iowa		0	–	0		0	–	0
North Dakota State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Southern Illinois		0	–	0		0	–	0
South Dakota		0	–	0		0	–	0
South Dakota State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Western Illinois		0	–	0		0	–	0
Youngstown State		0	–	0		0	–	0

Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 NEC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Bryant		0	–	0		0	–	0
Central Connecticut		0	–	0		0	–	0
Duquesne		0	–	0		0	–	0
Robert Morris		0	–	0		0	–	0
Saint Francis (PA)		0	–	0		0	–	0
Sacred Heart		0	–	0		0	–	0
Wagner		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 OVC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Austin Peay		0	–	0		0	–	0
Eastern Illinois		0	–	0		0	–	0
Eastern Kentucky		0	–	0		0	–	0
Jacksonville State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Murray State		0	–	0		0	–	0
SE Missouri State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Tennessee–Martin		0	–	0		0	–	0
Tennessee State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Tennessee Tech		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Patriot League football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Bucknell		0	–	0		0	–	0
Colgate		0	–	0		0	–	0
Fordham		0	–	0		0	–	0
Georgetown		0	–	0		0	–	0
Holy Cross		0	–	0		0	–	0
Lafayette		0	–	0		0	–	0
Lehigh		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Pioneer Football League standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Butler		0	–	0		0	–	0
Campbell		0	–	0		0	–	0
Davidson		0	–	0		0	–	0
Dayton		0	–	0		0	–	0
Drake		0	–	0		0	–	0
Jacksonville		0	–	0		0	–	0
Marist		0	–	0		0	–	0
Morehead State		0	–	0		0	–	0
San Diego		0	–	0		0	–	0
Stetson		0	–	0		0	–	0
Valparaiso		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Chattanooga		0	–	0		0	–	0
The Citadel		0	–	0		0	–	0
East Tennessee State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Furman		0	–	0		0	–	0
Mercer		0	–	0		0	–	0
Samford		0	–	0		0	–	0
VMI		0	–	0		0	–	0
Western Carolina		0	–	0		0	–	0
Wofford		0	–	0		0	–	0

Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 Southland Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Abilene Christian*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Central Arkansas		0	–	0		0	–	0
Houston Baptist		0	–	0		0	–	0
Incarnate Word*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Lamar		0	–	0		0	–	0
McNeese State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Nicholls State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Northwestern State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Sam Houston State		0	–	0		0	–	0
SE Louisiana		0	–	0		0	–	0
Stephen F. Austin		0	–	0		0	–	0

$ – Conference champion Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word ineligible for FCS Playoffs due to transition from Division II Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

2016 SWAC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
East
Alabama A&M		0	–	0		0	–	0
Alabama State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Alcorn State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Jackson State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Mississippi Valley State		0	–	0		0	–	0
West
Arkansas–Pine Bluff		0	–	0		0	–	0
Grambling State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Prairie View A&M		0	–	0		0	–	0
Southern*		0	–	0		0	–	0
Texas Southern		0	–	0		0	–	0
Championship: vs. (December 3)
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant Southern ineligible for postseason due to APR violations Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

Conference summaries

Abstentions

Coaching changes

Preseason and in-season

This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2016. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2016, see 2015 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

References

↑ "Coastal Carolina Announces 2016 Football Schedule" (Press release). Coastal Carolina Athletics. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016. "This is an important year for our program as we start our transition to the FBS," said fifth-year head coach Joe Moglia. "However, we are still an FCS independent this year and have put together a nationally-competitive schedule to reflect that.
↑ "ETSU, WCU to Play at Bristol Motor Speedway" (Press release). Southern Conference. January 29, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
↑ "Sun Belt Football to Be 10 Teams in 2018" (Press release). Sun Belt Conference. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
↑ "UI Moving Football to Big Sky Conference" (Press release). University of Idaho Office of the President. April 28, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
↑ Dodd, Dennis (April 27, 2016). "Idaho will become first team to drop from FBS to FCS in 2018". CBSSports.com. Retrieved April 30, 2016.

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