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Teams dropping from "1." to "last":

2009:
  • Holy Cross: won first Patriot League title since 1991
  • Prairie View A&M: won first Southwestern Athletic Conference title since 1964
2008:
  • Weber State: shared first Big Sky title since 1968
2007:
  • Florida Atlantic: won share of first Sun Belt title
2006:
  • Wake Forest: won first ACC title since 1970
2005:
  • Northern Illinois: won Mid-American Conference West title
  • Louisiana-Monroe: won share of Sun Belt title
2004:
  • None.

2003:
  • Mississippi: won share of first SEC West title (first title of any kind since 1963)
  • Southern Illinois: won share of first Gateway title
  • Jacksonville State: moved to Ohio Valley and won title in first year
  • San Diego: won share of first Pioneer North title
  • Valparaiso: won share of first Pioneer North title; won tiebreak; won championship game
  • Morehead State: won first Pioneer South title
  • Wofford: won first Southern title

2002:
  • Northeastern: won first Atlantic Ten title
  • Fordham: won first Patriot League title

By conference, last title (regardless of conference title won) noted; "never" slotted by first year of D-IA play:

DIVISION I-A

ATLANTIC COAST (Atlantic)	ATLANTIC COAST (Coastal)	BIG EAST			BIG TEN
 1. North Carolina State (1979)	 1. North Carolina (1980)	 1. Rutgers (never)		 1. Minnesota (1967)
 2. Maryland (2001)		 2. Duke (1989)			 2. South Florida (never)	 2. Indiana (1967)
 3. Florida State (2005)	 3. Virginia (1995)		 3. Syracuse (1998)		 3. Michigan State (1990)
 4. Wake Forest (2006)   	 4. Miami (FL) (2003)		 4. Pittsburgh (2004)		 4. Wisconsin (1999)
 5. Boston College (2008)	 5. Virginia Tech (2008)	 5. Louisville (2006)  		 5. Purdue (2000)
 6. Clemson (2009)		 6. Georgia Tech (2009)		 6. Connecticut (2007)		 6. Northwestern (2000)
								 7. West Virginia (2007)	 7. Illinois (2001)
								 8. Cincinnati (2009)		 8. Iowa (2002)
												 9. Michigan (2004)
												10. Penn State (2008)
												11. Ohio State (2009)

BIG XII (North)			BIG XII (South)			CONFERENCE USA (East)		CONFERENCE USA (West)
 1. Kansas State (2003)1		 1. Oklahoma State (1976)	 1. Memphis (1971)		 1. Rice (1957)
 2. Iowa State (1912)		 2. Texas Tech (1994)    	 2. Ala-Birmingham (never)	 2. Southern Methodist (1984)
 3. Kansas (1968)		 3. Baylor (1994)		 3. Marshall (2002) 		 3. Tulane (1998)
 4. Colorado (2005)		 4. Texas A&M (1998)		 4. Southern Mississippi (2006)	 4. Texas El-Paso (2000)
 5. Missouri (2008)		 5. Oklahoma (2008)		 5. Central Florida (2007)	 5. Tulsa (2008)
 6. Nebraska (2009)		 6. Texas (2009)   		 6. East Carolina (2009)	 6. Houston (2009)

MID-AMERICAN (EAST)		MID-AMERICAN (WEST)		MOUNTAIN WEST			PACIFIC TEN
1. Temple (1967)		 1. E. Michigan (1987)		 1. San Diego State (1986)	 1. Arizona (1993)
2. Kent State (1972)		 2. W. Michigan (2000)		 2. Nevada-Las Vegas (1994)	 2. Cal-Los Angeles (1998)
3. Bowling Green (2003)		 3. Toledo (2004)		 3. Wyoming (1996)		 3. Stanford (1999)
4. Akron (2005)			 4. Northern Illinois (2005)	 4. New Mexico (1997)		 4. Oregon State (2000)
5. Miami (OH) (2007)		 5. Ball State (2008)		 5. Air Force (1998)		 5. Washington (2000)
6. Buffalo (2008)		 6. C. Michigan (2009)		 6. Colorado State (2002)	 6. Washington State (2002)
7. Ohio (2009)							 7. Brigham Young (2007)	 7. California (2006)
								 8. Utah (2008)			 8. Arizona State (2007)
								 9. Texas Christian (2009)	 9. Southern California (2008)
												10. Oregon (2009)

SOUTHEASTERN (East)		SOUTHEASTERN (West)		SUN BELT			WESTERN ATHLETIC
 1. Vanderbilt (never)		 1. Mississippi State (1998)	 1. Fla International (never)	 1. New Mexico State (1978)
 2. South Carolina (1969)	 2. Mississippi (2003)		 2. Western Kentucky (2002)	 2. San Jose State (1991)
 3. Kentucky (1977)		 3. Auburn (2004)		 3. North Texas (2004)		 3. Utah State (1997)
 4. Georgia (2005)		 4. Arkansas (2006)		 4. Louisiana-Lafayette (2005)	 4. Idaho (1998)
 5. Tennessee (2007)		 5. Louisiana State (2007)	 5. Louisiana-Monroe (2005)	 5. Fresno State (1999)
 6. Florida (2009)		 6. Alabama (2009)		 6. Arkansas State (2005)	 6. Louisiana Tech (2001)
								 7. Middle Tenn. State (2006)	 7. Nevada (2005)
								 8. Florida Atlantic (2007)	 8. Hawai'i (2007)
								 9. Troy (2009)			 9. Boise State (2009)
								10. South Alabama (never*)
								 *- begins football 2013

INDEPENDENTS
 1. Army (never)
 2. Navy (never)
 3. Notre Dame (never)

DIVISION I-AA

BIG SKY				BIG SOUTH			COLONIAL			GREAT WEST
1. Portland State (never)	1. Virginia Military (1977)	 1. Rhode Island (1985)		 1. Southern Utah (never)
2. Sacramento State (1995)	2. Gardner-Webb (2003)		 2. Towson (never)		 2. South Dakota (never*)
3. Idaho State (2002)		3. Presbyterian (never*)	 3. William & Mary (1996)	 3. North Dakota (never*)
4. Northern Arizona (2003)	4. Charleston Southern (2005)	 4. Maine (2002)		 4. Cal Poly-SLO (2008)
5. Northern Colorado (never*)	5. Coastal Carolina (2006)	 5. Delaware (2003)		 5. California-Davis (2009)
6. Eastern Washington (2005)	6. Stony Brook (2009)		 6. New Hampshire (2005)	 *- 2005, NCC D-II;
7. Montana State (2005)		7. Liberty (2009)		 7. Massachusetts (2007)		joined D-I 2008
8. Weber State (2008)		*- 2003, SAC D-II; joined	 8. James Madison (2008)	 *- 2006, NCC D-II;
9. Montana (2009)			D-I 2005		 9. Richmond (2009)			joined D-I 2008
*- 2000, NCC D-II; joined D-I 2004			        10. Villanova (2009)
								11. Old Dominion (never*)
								12. Georgia State (never**)
							        ------------------------
								 *-joins 2011
								**-joins 2012
								------------------------
							        DROPPED FOOTBALL:
								a. Hofstra (never)
								b. Northeastern (2002)

IVY LEAGUE			MID-EASTERN			MISSOURI VALLEY			NORTHEAST
 1. Columbia (1961)		 1. Morgan State (1979)		 1. Indiana State (never)	 1. St. Francis (PA) (never)
 2. Cornell (1990)		 2. Norfolk State (1984)	 2. Missouri State (1989)	 2. Wagner (never)
 3. Dartmouth (1996)		 3. Howard (1993)		 3. Illinois State (1999)	 3. Robert Morris (2000)
 4. Princeton (2006)		 4. Winston-Salem State (never*) 4. Western Illinois (2000)	 4. Sacred Heart (2001)
 5. Yale (2006)			 5. Florida A&M (2001)		 5. Youngstown State (2006)	 5. Monmouth (NJ) (2001)
 6. Brown (2008)		 6. Bethune-Cookman (2002)	 6. North Dakota State (2006)	 6. Duquesne (2007)
 7. Harvard (2008)		 7. North Carolina A&T (2003)	 7. South Dakota State (2007)	 7. Albany (2008)
 8. Pennsylvania (2009)		 8. Hampton (2006)		 8. Northern Iowa (2008)	 8. C. Connecticut St. (2009)
				 9. Delaware State (2007)	 9. Southern Illinois (2009)
				10. S. Carolina State (2009)
				 *- 2000, CIAA; joined D-I 2008

OHIO VALLEY			PATRIOT				PIONEER				SOUTHERN
 1. Tennessee Tech (1975)	 1. Bucknell (1996)		 1. Davidson (2002)		 1. Western Carolina (never)
 2. Austin Peay (1977)		 2. Georgetown (1999)		 2. Valparaiso (2003)		 2. Chattanooga (1984)
 3. SE Missouri State (never)	 3. Lafayette (2006)		 3. Drake (2004)		 3. Citadel (1992)
 4. Tennessee State (2002)	 4. Lehigh (2006)		 4. Morehead State (2005)	 4. Samford (never)
 5. Murray State (2002)		 5. Fordham (2007)		 5. San Diego (2006)		 5. Elon (never)
 6. Jacksonville State (2004)	 6. Colgate (2008)		 6. Marist (2007)		 6. Georgia Southern (2004)
 7. Tennessee-Martin (2006)	 7. Holy Cross (2009)		 7. Dayton (2007)		 7. Furman (2004)
 8. Eastern Kentucky (2008)					 8. Campbell (never*)		 8. Wofford (2007)
 9. Eastern Illinois (2009)					 9. Jacksonville (2008)		 9. Appalachian State (2009)
								10. Butler (2009)		 ---------------------------
								 *- began football 2008		 DROPPED FOOTBALL:
												 a. E. Tenn. State (never)

PIONEER				SOUTHERN			SOUTHLAND
 1. Butler (1994)		 1. Western Carolina (never)	 1. Southeastern Louisiana (1962)
 2. Jacksonville (2001)		 2. Chattanooga (1984)		 2. Northwestern State (1998)
 3. Davidson (2002)		 3. Citadel (1992)		 3. Stephen F. Austin (1999)
 4. Dayton (2002)		 4. Elon (never)		 4. Sam Houston State (2004)
 5. Valparaiso (2003)		 5. Wofford (2003)		 5. Nicholls State (2005)
 6. Drake (2004)		 6. Georgia Southern (2004)	 6. Texas State (2005)
 7. Morehead State (2005)	 7. Furman (2004)		 7. Central Arkansas (2005)
 8. San Diego (2006)		 8. Appalachian State (2006)	 8. McNeese State (2005)
				-------------------------
				DROPPED FOOTBALL:
				 a. E. Tenn. State (never)

SOUTHLAND			SOUTHWESTERN (East)		SOUTHWESTERN (West)		INDEPENDENTS
 1. SE Louisiana (1962) 	 1. Miss. Valley State (never)	 1. Texas Southern (1968)	1. Savannah State (never)
 2. Northwestern State (1998)	 2. Alcorn State (2003)		 2. Southern (2004)
 3. Sam Houston State (2004)	 3. Alabama State (2004)	 3. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2006)
 4. Nicholls State (2005)	 4. Jackson State (2007)	 4. Grambling State (2008)
 5. Central Arkansas (2008)	 5. Alabama A&M (2009)		 5. Prairie View A&M (2009)
 6. Texas State (2008)
 7. McNeese State (2009)
 8. Stephen F. Austin (2009)
 9. Lamar (never*)
10. Texas-San Antonio (never**)
 *- begins football 2010
**- begins football 2011

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