List of schools that have started or plan to start new football programs

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  1. EPJr

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    The Associated Press

    List of schools that have started or plan to start new football programs during the five-year period beginning in 2009, according to the National Football Foundation:

    2009
    Old Dominion (Norfolk, Va.): NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, Colonial Athletic Association.

    University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, Texas): NCAA Division II.

    University of New Haven (West Haven, Conn.): NCAA Division II.

    Anna Maria College (Paxton, Mass.): NCAA Division III.

    Castleton State College (Castleton, Vt.): NCAA Division III.

    2010
    South Alabama (Mobile, Ala.): NCAA Division I FCS independent; football-playing member of Sun Belt Conference in Football Bowl Subdivision by 2013.

    Georgia State (Atlanta): NCAA Division I FCS independent; full transition to Colonial Athletic Association in 2012.

    Lamar (Beaumont, Texas): NCAA Division I FCS Southland Conference.

    Pacific University (Forest Grove, Ore.): NCAA Division III.

    Lindsey Wilson College (Columbia, Ky.): NAIA.

    Notre Dame College (South Euclid, Ohio): NAIA; beginning transition to NCAA Division II.

    2011
    Texas-San Antonio: NCAA Division I FCS independent; hopes to FBS conference in 2013.

    LeMoyne-Owen College (Memphis, Tenn.): NCAA Division II.

    Presentation College (Aberdeen, S.D.): NCAA Division III.

    Stevenson University (Owings Mills, Md.): NCAA Division III, developmental team in 2010.

    Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, Fla.): NAIA.

    Concordia University (Ann Arbor, Mich.): NAIA.

    Siena Heights University (Adrian, Mich): NAIA.

    2012
    Finlandia University (Hancock, Mich.): NCAA Division III

    Wayland Baptist University (Plainview, Texas): NAIA

    2013
    North Carolina-Charlotte: NCAA Division I FCS, conference to be determined

    George Fox University (Newberg, Ore.): NCAA Division III

    Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/08/20/1237456/a-list-of-new-college-football.html#ixzz0xByyeA5x
     
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    I heard the University of Michigan has plans to start a football team
     

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