The NCAA announced in early August that each division will determine the status of fall championships.
One of the guidelines states “if 50% or more of eligible teams in a particular sport in a division cancel their fall season, there will be no fall NCAA championship in that sport in that division.”
With some teams ineligible due to infractions or currently in a transitioning process, there are 119 teams eligible for the playoffs. The NCAA is counting the Ivy League, MEAC and SWAC as playoff-eligible even though they do not send their conference champ to the postseason.
The number of playoff-eligible teams fell well below 50 percent rather quickly after the Big Sky and the Pioneer Football League decided to postpone their seasons. The MVFC quickly followed suit.
School | Conference | In or out? |
---|---|---|
Cal Poly | Big Sky | Out |
Eastern Washington | Big Sky | Out |
Idaho | Big Sky | Out |
Idaho State | Big Sky | Out |
Montana | Big Sky | Out |
Montana State | Big Sky | Out |
Northern Arizona | Big Sky | Out |
Northern Colorado | Big Sky | Out |
Portland State | Big Sky | Out |
Sacramento State | Big Sky | Out |
Southern Utah | Big Sky | Out |
UC Davis | Big Sky | Out |
Weber State | Big Sky | Out |
Campbell | Big South | Out |
Charleston Southern | Big South | Out |
Gardner-Webb | Big South | Out |
Hampton | Big South | Out |
Kennesaw State | Big South | Out |
Monmouth | Big South | Out |
Albany | CAA | Out |
Delaware | CAA | Out |
Elon | CAA | Out |
James Madison | CAA | Out |
Maine | CAA | Out |
New Hampshire | CAA | Out |
Rhode Island | CAA | Out |
Richmond | CAA | Out |
Stony Brook | CAA | Out |
Towson | CAA | Out |
Villanova | CAA | Out |
William & Mary | CAA | Out |
Presbyterian | Ind. | In |
Robert Morris | Ind. | In |
Brown | Ivy | Out |
Columbia | Ivy | Out |
Cornell | Ivy | Out |
Dartmouth | Ivy | Out |
Harvard | Ivy | Out |
Penn | Ivy | Out |
Princeton | Ivy | Out |
Yale | Ivy | Out |
Bethune-Cookman | MEAC | Out |
Delaware State | MEAC | Out |
Florida A&M | MEAC | Out |
Morgan State | MEAC | Out |
Norfolk State | MEAC | Out |
North Carolina A&T | MEAC | Out |
North Carolina Central | MEAC | Out |
South Carolina State | MEAC | Out |
Illinois State | MVFC | Out |
Indiana State | MVFC | Out |
Missouri State | MVFC | Out |
North Dakota | MVFC | Out |
North Dakota State | MVFC | Out |
Northern Iowa | MVFC | Out |
South Dakota | MVFC | Out |
South Dakota State | MVFC | Out |
Southern Illinois | MVFC | Out |
Western Illinois | MVFC | Out |
Youngstown State | MVFC | Out |
Bryant | Northeast | Out |
Central Connecticut | Northeast | Out |
Duquesne | Northeast | Out |
LIU | Northeast | Out |
Sacred Heart | Northeast | Out |
Saint Francis | Northeast | Out |
Wagner | Northeast | Out |
Austin Peay | Ohio Valley | In |
Eastern Illinois | Ohio Valley | In |
Eastern Kentucky | Ohio Valley | In |
Jacksonville State | Ohio Valley | In |
Murray State | Ohio Valley | In |
Southeast Missouri State | Ohio Valley | In |
Tennessee State | Ohio Valley | In |
Tennessee Tech | Ohio Valley | In |
UT Martin | Ohio Valley | In |
Bucknell | Patriot | Out |
Colgate | Patriot | Out |
Fordham | Patriot | Out |
Georgetown | Patriot | Out |
Holy Cross | Patriot | Out |
Lafayette | Patriot | Out |
Lehigh | Patriot | Out |
Butler | Pioneer | Out |
Davidson | Pioneer | Out |
Dayton | Pioneer | Out |
Drake | Pioneer | Out |
Marist | Pioneer | Out |
Morehead State | Pioneer | Out |
San Diego | Pioneer | Out |
Stetson | Pioneer | Out |
Valparaiso | Pioneer | Out |
Chattanooga | Southern | In |
The Citadel | Southern | In |
East Tennessee State | Southern | In |
Furman | Southern | In |
Mercer | Southern | In |
Samford | Southern | In |
VMI | Southern | In |
Western Carolina | Southern | In |
Wofford | Southern | In |
Abilene Christian | Southland | In |
Central Arkansas | Southland | In |
Houston Baptist | Southland | In |
Incarnate Word | Southland | In |
Lamar | Southland | In |
Nicholls | Southland | In |
Northwestern State | Southland | In |
Sam Houston State | Southland | In |
Southeastern Louisiana | Southland | In |
Alabama A&M | SWAC | Out |
Alabama State | SWAC | Out |
Alcorn State | SWAC | Out |
Arkansas-Pine Bluff | SWAC | Out |
Grambling State | SWAC | Out |
Jackson State | SWAC | Out |
Mississippi Valley State | SWAC | Out |
Southern | SWAC | Out |
Texas Southern | SWAC | Out |