2024 NCAA Division I FBS season | |
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Number of teams | 134 |
Duration | August 24, 2024 – December 14, 2024 |
Post-season | |
Duration | December 14, 2024 – January 20, 2025 |
Bowl games | 41[a] |
College Football Playoff | |
2025 College Football Playoff National Championship | |
Site | Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta, Georgia[b] |
NCAA Division I FBS football seasons | |
← 2023 |
The 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season will be the 155th season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at its highest level of competition, the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The regular season will begin on August 24 and will end on December 14. The postseason will begin on December 14, and, aside from any all-star games that are scheduled, end on January 20, 2025, with the College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. This will be the first season of the new College Football Playoff (CFP) system, with the bracket being expanded to 12 teams.[1]
One school will play its first FBS season in 2024; Kennesaw State (from FCS independents) began its transition from Division I FCS in 2023 and will join Conference USA (CUSA) in July 2024.[2] One formerly independent school, Army, will join the American Athletic Conference in 2024.[3] SMU announced it would join the ACC in 2024.[4]
Overall, 10 schools from the Pac-12 are leaving for another conference in 2024. The 10 teams and conferences are:
The remaining two schools in the Pac-12, Oregon State and Washington State, made an agreement with the Mountain West Conference (MW) such that each remaining Pac-12 team will play six MW teams in 2024.[7]
Team | Conference in 2023 | Conference in 2024 |
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Arizona | Pac-12 | Big 12 |
Arizona State | Pac-12 | Big 12 |
Army | Independent (FBS) | American |
California | Pac-12 | ACC |
Colorado | Pac-12 | Big 12 |
Kennesaw State | Independent (FCS) | CUSA |
Oklahoma | Big 12 | SEC |
Oregon | Pac-12 | Big Ten |
SMU | American | ACC |
Stanford | Pac-12 | ACC |
Texas | Big 12 | SEC |
UCLA | Pac-12 | Big Ten |
USC | Pac-12 | Big Ten |
Utah | Pac-12 | Big 12 |
Washington | Pac-12 | Big Ten |
The 2024 season will be the last for one team as an FBS independent.[8][9]
School | Current conference | Future conference |
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UMass | Independent (FBS) | MAC |
Two FCS schools, Delaware and Missouri State, will start transitioning their programs to FBS in the 2024 season. The two schools will respectively play that season in CAA Football and the Missouri Valley Football Conference, but will not be eligible for the FCS playoffs due to NCAA transition rules. Both will join CUSA in 2025.[10][11]
School | Current conference | Future conference |
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Delaware | CAA Football (FCS) | CUSA |
Missouri State | Missouri Valley (FCS) | CUSA |
The following rule changes were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2024 season:[12]
Points of emphasis for the 2024 season include:[13]
The regular season will begin on Saturday, August 24 with four games in Week 0.
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There are 41 team-competitive FBS post-season bowl games, with two teams advancing to a 42nd – the CFP National Championship game. Normally a team required to have a .500 minimum winning percentage during the regular season to become bowl-eligible (six wins for an 11- or 12-game schedule, and seven wins for a 13-game schedule) if there are not enough winning teams to fulfill all open bowl slots, teams with losing records may be chosen to fill all 82 bowl slots. Additionally on the rare occasion in which a conference champion does not meet eligibility requirements, they are usually still chosen for bowl games via tie-ins for their conference.
This is the first year for the new college football playoff format under this format the 5 highest ranked conference champions will receive automatic bids, while the 7 highest teams who are not conference champions will receive at-large bids. The 4 highest ranked conference champions will receive a bye to the quarterfinals.[18]
Each of these games features college seniors, or players whose college football eligibility is ending, who are individually invited by game organizers. These games are scheduled to follow the team-competitive bowls, to allow players selected from bowl teams to participate. The all-star games may include some players from non-FBS programs.
The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, which debuted in 2012 and was played 12 times through January 2023, was discontinued. The East–West Shrine Bowl relocated from Nevada (where its prior two editions had been played) to Texas.
Date | Time (EST) | Game | Site | Television | Participants | Results | Ref. |
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January 11, 2025 | Hula Bowl | FBC Mortgage Stadium Orlando, Florida |
CBS Sports Network | Team Kai Team Aina |
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Jan. 2025 | Tropical Bowl | Camping World Stadium Orlando, Florida |
Varsity Sports Network | American Team National Team |
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January 30, 2025 | East-West Shrine Bowl | Ford Center at The Star Frisco, Texas |
NFL Network | West Team East Team |
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February 1, 2025 | Senior Bowl | Hancock Whitney Stadium Mobile, Alabama |
National Team American Team |
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February 22, 2025 | HBCU Legacy Bowl | Yulman Stadium New Orleans, Louisiana |
Team Robinson Team Gaither |
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This is restricted to coaching changes taking place on or after May 1, 2024, and will include any changes announced after a team's last regularly scheduled game but before its bowl game. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2024, see 2023 NCAA Division I FBS end-of-season coaching changes.
School | Outgoing Coach | Date | Reason | Replacement |
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Utah State | Blake Anderson | July 2, 2024 | Title IX non-compliance[24] | Nate Dreiling (interim) |
Fresno State | Jeff Tedford | July 15, 2024 | Resigned[25] | Tim Skipper (interim) |
This is the first year of a new 10-year television deal for the Southeastern Conference. SEC games will air exclusively on ESPN networks. ABC replaces CBS as the over-the-air television home of the SEC and exclusive television home of the SEC Championship Game.[26] CBS will start airing Big Ten games in the 3:30 ET slot full-time this season.
Oregon State and Washington State, the two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, announced a one-year agreement with The CW and Fox (2 games) on May 14, 2024.[27]
After extending their contract with the College Football Playoff in March, ESPN will sublicense two first round games to TNT Sports. These games will be the first games to air on the TNT network since 2006. ESPN will also sublicense two quarterfinal bowl games to TNT beginning in 2026.
Beginning this season, TNT Sports will also air third tier Mountain West Conference games on TruTV.[28]
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Pre-NCAA | |
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NCAA pre-divisional | |
NCAA University Division | |
NCAA Division I | |
NCAA Division I-A/FBS | |
NCAA Division I-AA/FCS | |
NCAA College Division | |
NCAA Division II | |
NCAA Division III |