List of defunct Division I football teams
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Last season played in parentheses
- American University (c. 1968)
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock (c. late 1940's)
- UALR fielded a football team when it was known as Little Rock Junior College.
- Birmingham-Southern College (c. 1941)
- Birmingham Southern will be re-adding football in 2007 as part of a move to the Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
- Boston University (1997)
- Bradley University (1970)
- University of Bridgeport (1975)
- University of California, Riverside (1975)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (1991)
- California State University, Fullerton (1992)
- California State University, Long Beach (1991)
- California State University, Northridge (2001)
- Campbell University (1950)
- Canisius College (2002)
- Carlisle Indian School (1917)
- Carnegie Mellon University (1941)
- Centenary College of Louisiana (1947)
- College of Charleston (1923)
- University of Chicago (1939)
- Chicago resumed football in 1968 at Division III status.
- City College of New York (CCNY) (1951)
- Creighton University (1942)
- University of Denver (1960)
- DePaul University (c. 1938)
- University of Detroit, now University of Detroit Mercy (1964)
- Drexel University (1973)
- Duquesne University (1951)
- East Tennessee State University (2003)
- A task force has been hired by the school with alumni, local community leaders, and former administrators to consider returning the sport. The potential of returning the school's entire athletics department to a stronger conference, especially basketball, is also being considered for that. After dropping the sport, the school left the Southern Conference. -- http://www.oakridger.com/stories/062106/col_20060621009.shtml (subscription required)
- Erskine College (1952)
- University of Evansville (1997)
- Fairfield University (2002)
- George Washington University (1966)
- Gonzaga University (1941)
- High Point University (1950)
- University of Illinois at Chicago (1973)
- Lamar University (1989)
- Long Island University (1940)
- Loyola College in Maryland (1933)
- Loyola University Chicago (c. 1930)
- Loyola University of Los Angeles, now Loyola Marymount University (1951)
- Manhattan College (1942)
- Marquette University (1960)
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore (1979)
- Mercer University (1941)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1974)
- Morris Brown College (2003)
- Mount Saint Mary's University (1950)
- New York University (1952)
- Niagara University (1950)
- University of North Carolina at Asheville (1954)
- UNCA was known as Asheville-Biltmore College when it last competed in football. [2]
- Northeastern Illinois University (1988)
- Old Dominion University (1941)
- At the time, ODU was a two-year division of the College of William and Mary, and did not grant bachelor's degrees until 1956. ODU will reestablish a Division I-AA football program in 2009. George Welsh, a former Division I-A coach at Virginia, and Dick Sheridan, a former Division I-AA championship coach (1988, Furman), have been hired as consultants. Sheridan served in a similar role to establish Coastal Carolina University's I-AA program, which has grown since its establishment of its first all-redshirt class in 2001.
- University of the Pacific (1995)
- Pepperdine University (1961)
- University of Portland (1949)
- Providence College (1941)
- Quantico Marines (1973)
- Rider University (1951)
- Rollins College (1950)
- St. Bonaventure University (1951)
- St. John's University, New York (2002)
- St. Mary's College of California (2003)
- Saint Joseph's University (1939)
- Saint Francis College (New York) (1935)
- Saint Louis University (1949)
- University of San Francisco (1971)
- Santa Clara University (1992)
- Seton Hall University (1981)
- Siena College (2003)
- Stetson University (1956)
- University of Tampa (1974)
- Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (1966)
- University of Texas at Arlington (1985)
- U.S. International University, now Alliant International University (1980)
- University of Vermont (1974)
- Washington & Jefferson College (circa 1940)
- Wichita State University (1986)
- Xavier University (Cincinnati) (1973)
