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2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season

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Duration
  
August – November

Champion
  
North Dakota State

Duration
  
November 24, 2012 – January 5, 2013

Championship site
  
FC Dallas Stadium, Frisco, TX

Payton Award
  
Taylor Heinicke, Old Dominion

Buchanan Award
  
Caleb Schreibeis, Montana State

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2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season

The 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level, began on August 30, 2012 and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division I Football Championship on January 5, 2013 at FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, Texas.

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Conference changes

Several teams changed conferences from the 2011 season. Texas State of the Southland Conference (but technically played as an independent in 2011), Massachusetts of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and independents South Alabama and UTSA are transitioning to the Football Bowl Subdivision and were transitional FBS members in 2012; all four will become full FBS members in 2013.

The Great West Conference dropped football after all of its five football members in the 2011 season joined other conferences. Cal Poly, North Dakota, Southern Utah and UC Davis all joined the Big Sky Conference. South Dakota joined the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

In their third year as a program, Georgia State, already a full member of the CAA, joined the football conference after two years as an independent. However, this was the Panthers' only season as a CAA football member, as the school has announced that it would begin an FBS transition in 2012 in advance of its July 2013 move to the Sun Belt Conference.

There were no teams playing as independents in 2012.

FCS team wins over FBS teams

  • August 30:
  • McNeese State 27, Middle Tennessee 21
  • Eastern Washington 20, Idaho 3
  • September 1:
  • Tennessee–Martin 20, Memphis 17
  • Youngstown State 31, Pittsburgh 17
  • September 8:
  • Illinois State 31, Eastern Michigan 14
  • Sacramento State 30, Colorado 28
  • North Dakota State 22, Colorado State 7
  • Northern Arizona 17, UNLV 14
  • September 15:
  • Cal Poly 24, Wyoming 22
  • September 29:
  • Stony Brook 23, Army 3

    • Other conference winners

    Note: Records are regular-season only, and do not include playoff games.

    Automatic berths for conference champions

  • Big Sky Conference – Eastern Washington
  • Big South Conference – Coastal Carolina
  • Colonial Athletic Association – Villanova
  • Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Bethune-Cookman
  • Missouri Valley Football Conference – North Dakota State
  • Northeast Conference – Wagner
  • Ohio Valley Conference – Eastern Illinois
  • Patriot League – Colgate
  • Southern Conference – Georgia Southern
  • Southland Conference – Central Arkansas

    • At large qualifiers

  • Big Sky Conference - Montana State and Cal Poly
  • Big South Conference - Stony Brook
  • Colonial Athletic Association - New Hampshire and Old Dominion
  • Missouri Valley Football Conference - Illinois State and South Dakota State
  • Southern Conference - Wofford and Appalachian State
  • Southland Conference - Sam Houston State

    • Abstains

  • Ivy League – Penn
  • Southwestern Athletic Conference – Arkansas–Pine Bluff

    • NCAA FCS Playoff bracket


    * Home team    † Overtime

    Preseason and in-season

    This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2012. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2012, see 2011 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

    End of season

  • In addition to the above changes, Southern named its interim head coach Dawson Odums as permanent head coach on December 14.

    • References

    2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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