- September 27th, 2008, 10:53 pm
#198615
If you read below thare are eight automatic bids and eight at large bids. The Big South Conference gets an automatic bid in 2010, whcij is next year. Therefore, for us to get into the playoffs this year, we have to get in as an at large bid. I had the wrong year but the right information. Even if Liberty wins the Big South we have to go in as an at large team. A committe will get together at the end of the regular seaon and decide the eight at large teams.
The '''NCAA Division I Football Championship'''<ref>[http://www.div1fbchampionship.com/ NCAA Division I Football Championship - Official Web Site is an college football]] tournament played each year to determine the champion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Prior to year 2006, the game was known as the '''NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship'''. Informally, the name of the championship is often still qualified as being FCS or I-AA, to distinguish it from the Bowl Championship Series, in which selected teams of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|Football Bowl Subdivision]] (FBS, formerly Division I-A) compete. The BCS is not an NCAA sanctioned tournament or championship.
The current champions are the Appalachian State Mountaineers football| which in 2007 became the first team to win the tournament in three consecutive years.
n April 2008 the NCAA announced that the playoff field will again expand to include 20 teams beginning in 2010. The champions of eight conferences receive automatic bids, with eight "at-large" spots.
The 16 team tournament is played each year in November and December and culminates in a championship game, which has since 1997 in sportsbeen played in Chattanooga, Tennessee at Finley Stadium, the home football venue of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
In April 2008 the NCAA announced that the playoff field will again expand to include 20 teams beginning in 2010
The 16 team tournament is played each year in November and December and culminates in a championship game, which has since 1997 in sportsbeen played in Chattanooga, Tennessee at Finley Stadium, the home football venue of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
====Conferences====
!Conference
!Nickname
!Founded
!Members
!Sports
!Headquarters
!Tournament Bid
|-
|[[Big Sky Conference]]
|Big Sky
|1963
|9
|15
|[[Ogden, Utah]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Big South Conference]]
|Big South
|1983
|9
|18
|[[Charlotte, North Carolina]]
|Invitation (Automatic starting in 2010)
|-
|[[Colonial Athletic Association]]
|CAA
|1983 (2007 for football)
|12
|21
|[[Richmond, Virginia]]
|Automatic
|-
||Invitation
|-
|[[Great West Conference]]
|Great West
|2004
|5
|16
|[[Elmhurst, Illinois]]
|Invitation
|-
|[[Ivy League]]
|Ivy League
|1954
|8
|33
|[[Princeton, New Jersey]]
|Abstains
|-
|[[Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference]]
|MEAC
|1970
|12
|15
|[[Virginia Beach, Virginia]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Missouri Valley Football Conference]]
|MVFC
|1985
|9
|1
|[[St. Louis, Missouri]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Northeast Conference]]
|NEC
|1981
|12
|22
|[[Somerset, New Jersey]]
|Invitation (Automatic starting in 2010)
|-
|[[Ohio Valley Conference]]
|OVC
|1948
|11
|17
|[[Brentwood, Tennessee]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Patriot League]]
|Patriot
|1986
|8
|23
|[[Center Valley, Pennsylvania]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Pioneer Football League]]
|PFL
|1991
|8
|1
|[[St. Louis, Missouri]]
|Invitation
|-
|[[Southern Conference]]
|SOCON
|1921
|12
|19
|[[Spartanburg, South Carolina]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Southland Conference]]
|Southland
|1963
|12
|17
|[[Frisco, Texas]]
|Automatic
|-
|[[Southwestern Athletic Conference]]
|SWAC
|1920
|10
|18
|[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
|Abstains
|}
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIP
- By Sly Fox