History of FCS teams in NCAA Football

[The Gunslinger]

Is there a list out there of all the FCS schools that have been included in every NCAA Football video game from NCAA Football 98 to NCAA Football 11?

If not, I'm interested in creating such list mainly because I would like to know which versions of the game have FCS schools that may be missing on other versions. For example, Hofstra, Northeastern, and ETSU are featured on NCAA Football 2004, but are missing from subsequent versions of the series due to the fact that these football programs had shutdown.

[JHamilton9]

NCAA 2002 & NCAA 2003:
Ivy League, MEAC, and SWAC

• Alabama A&M
• Alabama State
• Alcorn State
• Arkansas Pine-Bluff (should be Arkansas-Pine Bluff)
• Bethune-Cookman
• Brown
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Dartmouth
• Delaware State
• Florida A&M
• Grambling State
• Hampton
• Harvard
• Howard
• Jackson State
• Mississippi Valley State
• Morgan State
• North Carolina A&T
• Norfolk State
• Penn
• Prairie View A&M
• Princeton
• South Carolina State
• Southern
• Texas Southern
• Yale

NCAA 2004 added:
Atlantic-10 (Colonial in the future), Big Sky, Gateway (Missouri Valley in the future), Southern

• Appalachian State
• Delaware
• Eastern Washington
• Chattanooga
• East Tennessee State
• Elon
• Furman
• Georgia Southern
• Hofstra
• Idaho State
• Illinois State
• Indiana State
• James Madison
• Maine
• Montana
• Montana State
• New Hampshire
• Northeastern
• Northern Arizona
• Northern Iowa
• Portland State
• Rhode Island
• Richmond
• Southwest Missouri State (Missouri State in the future)
• Sacramento State
• Southern Illinois
• The Citadel
• UMass
• Villanova
• Weber State
• Western Carolina
• Western Illinois
• Western Kentucky
• William & Mary
• Wofford
• Youngstown State

NCAA 2005 removed: East Tennessee State
NCAA 2005 added:
Ohio Valley, Southland, Generic I-AA

• Eastern Illinois
• Eastern Kentucky
• Jacksonville State
• McNeese State
• Murray State
• Nicholls State
• Northwestern State
• Sam Houston State
• Samford
• Southeast Missouri State
• Stephen F. Austin
• Tennessee State
• Tennessee Tech
• Tennessee-Martin (aka UTM)
• Texas State
• Towson
• IAA East
• IAA Midwest
• IAA Northwest
• IAA Southern
• IAA West

NCAA 06 added:

• Southeastern

NCAA 09 removed: Hofstra, Northeastern

[LuckySeven]

Quote: Originally Posted by JHamilton9

NCAA 09 removed: Hofstra, Northeastern

Not quite. Both school stayed in all the remaining PS2 games. If they had bothered to try to stay accurate with the FCS teams they should have removed both schools in NCAA '11 (representing the 2010 season). Also could have added a few more schools like Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, North Carolina A&T, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State, & South Dakota State. I certainly would have welcome more teams to choose from myself (that and getting rid of the mascot teams).

[The Gunslinger]

Thank you! This is very helpful information!

[esayem]

Quote: Originally Posted by LuckySeven

Not quite. Both school stayed in all the remaining PS2 games. If they had bothered to try to stay accurate with the FCS teams they should have removed both schools in NCAA '11 (representing the 2010 season). Also could have added a few more schools like Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, North Carolina A&T, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State, & South Dakota State. I certainly would have welcome more teams to choose from myself (that and getting rid of the mascot teams).

I’m not sure why the Patriot League was never added. Lots of history there with Lehigh and Lafayette, and co.

There really wasn’t much effort put into the PS2 series after 06/07. They never added the Dallas Cowboys stadium and Minnesota’s outdoor stadium, they stopped updating a lot of art, uniforms got sloppy. It’s too bad because I prefer the way it plays and the recruiting.

One of the few things missing were coach ratings and a coaching carousel.