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2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season

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Champion
  
North Dakota State

Dates
  
29 Aug 2015 – 9 Jan 2016

Duration
  
August 29 – November 21, 2015

Duration
  
November 28, 2015 – January 9, 2016

Championship site
  
Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas

Payton Award
  
Cooper Kupp, WR, Eastern Washington

Buchanan Award
  
Deon King, LB, Norfolk State

Location
  
Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, United States

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2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season

The 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level.

Contents

Conference changes and new programs

One team left the FCS to transition to FBS while two schools added football at the FCS level, all moves officially taking effect on July 1, 2015.

Updated stadiums

No FCS schools opened new stadiums for the 2015 season, however two new programs debuted in the season:

  • East Tennessee State plays at Kermit Tipton Stadium located on the campus of Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee.
  • Kennesaw State plays on campus at Fifth Third Bank Stadium, which has a capacity of 8,318. There are plans to expand the capacity to over 10,000.

    • FCS team wins over FBS teams

    (FCS rankings from the STATS poll)

  • September 4:
  • #20 Fordham 37, Army 35
  • September 5:
  • #16 South Dakota State 41, Kansas 38
  • Portland State 24, Washington St 17
  • North Dakota 24, Wyoming 13
  • September 19:
  • Furman 16, UCF 15
  • September 26:
  • #9 James Madison 48, SMU 45
  • October 3:
  • #18 Liberty 41, Georgia State 33
  • October 10:
  • #25 Portland State 66, North Texas 7
  • This game saw the largest victory margin ever by an FCS team over an FBS team, surpassing Lehigh's 58–0 win over Harvard in 1981, the year before Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League moved from FBS to FCS (then Divisions I-A and I-AA respectively). Portland State also became the first FCS team to defeat two FBS teams in the same season since North Dakota State in 2007. North Texas' head coach, Dan McCarney, was fired later in the day.
  • November 21:
  • #25 The Citadel 23, South Carolina 22

    • Other conference winners

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

    Abstentions

  • Ivy League – Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn
  • Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – North Carolina A&T
  • Southwestern Athletic Conference – Alcorn State

    • NCAA FCS Playoff bracket


    * Home team   
     † Overtime   
     Winner

    Preseason and in-season

    This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2015. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2015, see 2014 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.

    References

    2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season Wikipedia
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