List of NCAA Division III football programs
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There are 240 NCAA Division III football programs in the United States. Teams and conference affiliations are current for the 2025 season.[1]
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| * | Former NCAA Division I (or equivalent) national champions |
| ^ | Former NCAA Division I (or equivalent) member |
- ↑ 17 states (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) do not currently have Division III football programs.
- ↑ According to conferences in football, not necessarily a team's primary conference.
- ↑ Austin was previously a Division III member between 1973 and 1977.
- ↑ Bluffton was previously a Division III member in 1990.
- ↑ Cal Lutheran was previously a Division III member between 1975 and 1977.
- ↑ Concordia was previously a Division III member between 1973 and 1975.
- ↑ Joining CCIW in 2027.
- ↑ Joining SCAC in 2026.
- ↑ Gallaudet was previously a Division III member between 1973 and 1979, 1987 and 1994, and 2001 and 2003.
- ↑ Hardin-Simmons was previously a Division III member between 1990 and 1992.
- ↑ Joining MWC in 2026.
- ↑ Maine Maritime was previously a Division III member football between 1973 and 2019 when the program was suspended indefinitely due to COVID-19 in 2020.
- ↑ Joining ASC in 2026.
- ↑ McMurry was previously a Division III member between 1977 and 2011.
- ↑ Minnesota–Morris was previously a Division III member between 1978 and 1984.
- ↑ Redlands was previously a Division III member between 1973 and 1978.
- ↑ SUNY Maritime was previously a Division III member in 1985 and 1988.
- ↑ Joining NCAC in 2026.
- ↑ Wilmington was previously a Division III member between 1977 and 1980.
- ↑ Wisconsin-River Falls was previously a Division III member in 1977.
- ↑ Wisconsin-Whitewater was previously a Division III member between 1973 and 1977.
Future Division III football programs
| School | Nickname | City | State/ province |
Enrollment | Future conference |
Note | Begins play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azusa Pacific | Cougars | Azusa | California | 7,120 | SCIAC | [F2 1] | 2026[2] |
| Saint Francis | Red Flash | Loretto | Pennsylvania | 2,111 | PAC | [F2 2][F2 3] | 2026[3] |
| Schreiner | Mountaineers | Kerrville | Texas | 1,326 | ASC | 2026[4] | |
| Whittier | Poets | Whittier | California | 815 | SCIAC | [F2 4] | 2026[5] |
| Saint Anselm | Hawks | Goffstown | New Hampshire | 2,111 | NEWMAC | [F2 1] | 2027[6] |
- 1 2 Transitioning from Division II.
- ↑ Transitioning from Division I.
- ↑ Sponsored Division III football between 1978 and 1992.
- ↑ Sponsored Division III football between 1973 and 2022.
Former NCAA Division III football programs
- Notes
- ↑ As of the 2025 football season.
- ↑ Now Canisius University.
- ↑ Though now athletically branded and academically marketed as UCF, this usage was not adopted until after the school left D-III.
- ↑ Now nicknamed Knights.
- ↑ Now marketed as LIU Post, one of the two primary campuses of Long Island University.
- ↑ As the LIU Sharks, following the 2019 merger of the LIU Post athletic program with the NCAA Division I non-football program of LIU's other primary campus in Brooklyn. Post was the only one of the two campuses that sponsored football.
- ↑ Now known as California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and athletically branded and academically marketed as Cal Poly Humboldt.
- ↑ Athletically branded as "Chicago Circle" when it played football. Now known as the University of Illinois Chicago, and athletically branded and academically marketed as UIC.
- ↑ Nickname dropped shortly after the team's last season. The current nickname of Flames was adopted in 1982.
- ↑ Now Iona University.
- ↑ Now the University of West Alabama.
- ↑ Now Marist University.
- ↑ Now athletically branded as Minnesota State, with no city identifier.
- ↑ The current athletic nickname of Red Storm was not adopted until 1994, two years after football was dropped.
- ↑ Now Saint Peter's University.
- ↑ Now Siena University.
- ↑ Now athletically branded as Tarleton, without "State".
- ↑ Now Towson University.
- ↑ Nickname changed to Beacons in 2021.
- ↑ Now the University of West Georgia.
- ↑ Whittier will revive its football program for the 2026 season.
See also
- NCAA Division III Football Championship
- List of NCAA Division III Football Championship appearances by team
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of current NCAA Division III football coaches
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
- List of NCAA Division II football programs
- List of NAIA football programs
- List of community college football programs
- List of colleges and universities with club football teams
- List of defunct college football teams
References
General
- "Division III football team news, schedules and results". D3football.com.
- "NCAA Division III Football Institutions". NCAA.
Specific
- ↑ "Division III Football Institutions". NCAA Directory. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
- ↑ "APU Announces Return of Football". Azusa Pacific University. March 17, 2025. Retrieved March 17, 2025.
- ↑ "Saint Francis Announces Move to NCAA Division III Athletics" (Press release). Saint Francis University. March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
- ↑ "Schreiner University: Excitement is building". Schreiner University. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
- ↑ "Whittier College Revives Football for 2026, Backed By $814K Alumni Fundraising". Whittier College. October 25, 2024. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
- ↑ "PRESS RELEASE: Saint Anselm College Announces Athletics Transition Plan to Membership in the NEWMAC and NCAA Division III" (Press release). Saint Anselm College. April 22, 2026. Retrieved April 22, 2026.
