However, the NCAA does not officially recognize the National Champion in the Football Bowl Subdivision as the Division I National Champion.

Though the PDL does have some paid players, it also has many teams that are made up entirely or almost entirely of college soccer players who use the league as an opportunity to play competitive soccer in front of professional scouts during the summer, while retaining amateur status and NCAA eligibility.

Olin does not plan to compete alone on the NCAA stage and NEWMAC, the Regional NCAA conference, has not given approval for Olin students to compete with Babson's varsity teams next door.

ASU is the only school of the three to compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ; UALR does not have football, while UAPB and UCA compete in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision.

In addition, various other sports teams participate in other NCAA Division II sport conferences for sports that the MIAA does not sponsor.

If the Big Ten does not have an eligible team, the game will feature a team from the Sun Belt that meets the NCAA requirement of at least six wins.

One such example is the Victory Bowl sponsored by the NCCAA, a group that does not restrict its membership to either NCAA or NAIA.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore does not offer NCAA sports.

The NCAA itself does not award a championship for Division I-A football.

Unlike the CHL it does not pay a stipend to its players, who thus retain amateur status and are eligible to play in the NCAA.

There is also a synchronized swimming team, the Aqua Angels, that does not compete at the NCAA level.

Due to its newness, the league does not currently have an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but the Great West Conference men's basketball tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament ( CIT ), while the women's basketball tournament winners head to the Women's Basketball Invitational ( WBI ).

The basketball capacity does not reflect the NCAA's new policy on arranging the basketball court on the 50-yard line on the football field, per 2009 NCAA policy.

The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and does not sponsor football.

The prohibition includes professional competition in all of the aforementioned sports, and also specifically includes Division I FBS football, in which the NCAA does not sponsor an official championship.

The men's and lightweight women's programs compete at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta ( IRA ) because the NCAA does not sanction a men's or lightweight women's national championship.

This does not contravene NCAA rules, which state that college players cannot play alongside professionals, but may play against them.

The NCAA puts substantially more money towards Division I programs than it does Division III.

Indiana Tech added Men's and women's lacrosse programs in 2009 and currently compete as independent teams against NCAA Division III and MCLA teams as the WHAC does not sponsor lacrosse.

Since the NCAA Rowing Championships does not have a lightweight event for women, a select number of these teams ( e. g., University of Wisconsin ) are eligible to compete at IRAs with the top men's programs.

Unlike the former women's collegiate championship, the NCAA does not have a championship race for women's lightweight rowing.

She'll do anything to overthrow Diane Weston as Captain of Lincoln High's " A " Squad ... as long as it does not deviate from the NCAA Rulebook.

The NCAA does not recognize Syracuse and Coach Roy Simmons Jr .’ s 3-0 record, and Paul Gait ’ s 7 goals, 7 assists and his participation in that championship.

The USHL is strictly amateur, allowing former USHL players to compete in NCAA college hockey.

At the collegiate level, the NCAA closely regulates the activities of booster clubs and strictly defines what actions would cause a person to be considered an official booster of an athletic program.

Under NFL and NCAA rules, once the quarterback moves out of the pocket, and there is no good option for a forward pass, the ball may be legally thrown away to prevent a sack.

In 1963, Barnett tried to prevent the basketball team Mississippi State University at Starkville from playing an NCAA Tournament game against the racially-integrated team from Loyola of Chicago.

NCAA rules prevent the Yell Leaders from participating in athletic practices, but the Head Yell Leader can usually be found during two-a-days, running and lifting alongside the football team.

The NCAA authorities took measures to prevent brawls, such as the segregation of supporters of opposing schools in the playing venues.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

The IAAUS would get its current name of National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), in 1910 which still sets rules governing the sport.

Also, in 1979, the university moved all of its athletic programs to NCAA Division I. Enrollment that year passed 11, 000.

In 2011, Albert was named an announcer for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the result of longtime tournament broadcaster CBS handing off some of its coverage to Turner Sports.

In the United States, it is important to note that Women's Rowing is an NCAA sport, while Men's Rowing chooses to remain governed by its own regulatory body, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association ( IRA ).

Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA, often competing with its cross-town rival the University of Houston.

On February 20, 2012, the NCAA announced it had granted Berea permission to begin a one-year period exploring membership in its Division III, non-scholarship athletic program.

Of special note, the university had announced its desire to possibly enter the NCAA during the 2007 athletic season.

The NCAA dates its formation to two White House conferences convened by President Theodore Roosevelt to " encourage reforms " to college football practices in the early 20th century, which had resulted in repeated injuries and deaths and " prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport.

The IAAUS was officially established on March 31, 1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

The NCAA was dissatisfied with its Johnson County, Kansas suburban location noting that its location on the south edges of the Kansas City suburbs was more than 40 minutes from Kansas City International Airport.

In 1999 the NCAA moved its 300 member staff to its new headquarters in the White River State Park in a four-story, facility on the west edge of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.

The 2008 – 2009 season saw the men's NCAA volleyball team have its best season ever.

Eight of the seventeen conference schools are football members and the Big East competes as a BCS conference in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), the top level of NCAA competition in that sport ( also known by its former designation: Division I-A ).

The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport.

It is a member of the NCAA's Division I for all sports ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition.

It participates in the NCAA's Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition.

With Arizona State's softball title in 2011, the conference won its 400th NCAA Championship.

In its last years as a football conference, it was a hybrid league that included teams in NCAA Divisions I-A ( today's FBS ) and I-AA ( now FCS ).

The Hilltoppers left the GFC after the 2006 season, went through the two-year " reclassification " period mandated by the NCAA for schools moving from the FCS to the FBS, and became a football member of its all-sports conference, the Sun Belt Conference, in 2009.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.