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2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season

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Dates
  
23 Aug 2014 – 10 Jan 2015

Duration
  
August 23 – November 22, 2014

Duration
  
November 29, 2014 – January 10, 2015

Championship site
  
Toyota Stadium, Frisco, TX

Payton Award
  
John Robertson, QB, Villanova

Buchanan Award
  
Kyle Emanuel, DE, North Dakota State

Champion
  
North Dakota State Bison football

Location
  
Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, United States

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2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season

The 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, is organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level.

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Notable changes

Under a standard provision of NCAA rules, all FCS programs were allowed to play 12 regular-season games (not counting conference title games) in 2014. In years when the period starting with the Thursday before Labor Day and ending with the final Saturday in November contains 14 Saturdays, FCS programs may play 12 games instead of the regular 11. After this season, the next season in which 12-game seasons are allowed will be 2019.

Conference changes and new programs

Several teams changed conferences from the 2013 season, with all moves officially taking effect on July 1, 2014.

Other headlines

  • May 14 – The NCAA announces its Academic Progress Rate (APR) sanctions for the 2014–15 school year. A total of 36 programs in 11 sports are declared ineligible for postseason play due to failure to meet the required APR benchmark, including the following seven FCS teams:
  • Alabama State
  • Arkansas–Pine Bluff
  • Florida A&M
  • Mississippi Valley State
  • Prairie View A&M
  • Saint Francis
  • Savannah State
  • In addition to the above teams, the entire athletic program at Southern, including the football team, is ineligible for postseason play due to failure to supply usable academic data to the NCAA.

    • FCS team wins over FBS teams

    (FCS rankings from the Sports Network poll; FBS rankings from the AP Poll)

  • August 30:
  • #2 North Dakota State 34, Iowa State 14
  • #22 Bethune-Cookman 14, Florida International 12
  • September 6:
  • Eastern Kentucky 17, Miami (OH) 10
  • September 13:
  • Indiana State 27, Ball State 20—The Victory Bell Game
  • Abilene Christian 38, Troy 35
  • September 20:
  • Northwestern State 30, Louisiana Tech 27
  • September 27:
  • Yale 49, Army 43 OT
  • October 11:
  • Liberty 55, Appalachian State 48 OT

    • Other conference winners

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

    Abstentions

  • Ivy League – Harvard
  • Southwestern Athletic Conference – Alcorn State

    • NCAA FCS Playoff bracket


    * Home team   
     Winner
    All times in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00)

    Preseason and in-season

    This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2014. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2014, see 2013 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

    References

    2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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