2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season

The 2007 NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

season, part of the college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

season, began on August 25, 2007 and concluded on December 14, 2007 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee , with a population of 169,887. It is the seat of Hamilton County...

, where the Appalachian State Mountaineers

2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team

The 2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the college football season of 2007–2008. The team was coached by Jerry Moore and the Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina.The football team competes in...

defeated the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens to win the NCAA Division I Football Championship.

Rule changes for 2007

The clock rules adopted in the 2006 season were reversed, after coaches in all divisions disapproved of them. The attempt to reduce the time of games sought by those rules was successful, reducing the average college football game from 3 hours and 21 minutes in 2005 to 3 hours and 7 seven minutes in 2006. The reduced game time also reduced the average number of plays in a game by 13, fewer offensive yards per game by 66, and average points per game by 5.

Rules changes for the 2007 season include:

Moving the kick-off yard-line from 35 to 30, which matches the yard-line used in the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

, to reduce the number of touchbacks.
Paring the 25-second play clock to 15 seconds after TV timeouts.
Shortening teams' three allotted timeouts per half by 30 seconds each, from 1:25 to 55 seconds.
Allowing penalties against the kicking team on kickoffs to be assessed at the end of the runback, avoiding a re-kick, also matching the NFL rule.

FCS team wins over FBS teams

September 1 – Appalachian State
2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team
The 2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the college football season of 2007–2008. The team was coached by Jerry Moore and the Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina.The football team competes in...

34, #5
2007 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings
Three polls and one formulaic ranking make up the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a National Championship title. That title is bestowed by one or more...

Michigan
2007 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2007 college football season. This was Lloyd Carr's final season as Michigan head coach. The 2007 season began with a stunning loss to Appalachian State, but the Wolverines won eight straight games after...

32 (Game notes
2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game
The 2007 Appalachian State-Michigan game was a college football game held on September 1 at Michigan Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It pitted the #5 ranked Michigan Wolverines against the two-time defending champions of the Division I FCS, the...

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September 1 – 16, 14
September 8 – Northern Iowa
2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team
The 2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was coached by Mark Farley and played their home games in the UNI-Dome...

24, Iowa State
2007 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 2007 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the 2007 College Football Division I FBS season.-Schedule:...

13
September 8 – 34, Northern Illinois
2007 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The 2007 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football during the 2007 season. Northern Illinois competed as a member of the West Division of the Mid-American...

31
September 15 – 48, 35
September 15 – 38, 17
September 22 – 44, 14
October 20 – 27, Minnesota
2007 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 2007 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was the first for new head coach Tim Brewster. They began play on September 1, 2007 at home against Bowling Green and finished the season with a record of 1 win and 11 losses.-Preseason:...

21
October 27 – Delaware
2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football in its seventh season as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association , and the football program's...

59, Navy 52

Conference standings

	\| Conf		\| Overall
class="wikitable" width="100%" style="font-size:90%; line-height:90%;">	Gateway Football Conference
Team	W	L	W	L	PF	PA
Northern Iowa 2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team The 2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was coached by Mark Farley and played their home games in the UNI-Dome...	6	0	12	1	469	219
	5	1	12	2	530	243
	3	3	7	4	301	203
	3	3	6	5	273	215
	2	4	6	5	399	388
	2	4	4	7	324	338
	0	6	0	11	123	541

class="wikitable" width="100%" style="font-size:90%; line-height:90%;"> Pioneer Football League

Pioneer Football League

The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates in the East, Midwest, and California of the United States. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. The conference participates in the NCAA's...

| Conf | Overall Team W L W L PF PA 6 1 11 1 466 187 6 1 9 2 488 287 5 2 7 4 277 216 4 3 6 4 312 282 3 4 6 5 293 293 2 5 5 6 245 321 2 5 3 8 240 351 0 7 4 7 241 345 class="wikitable" width="100%" style="font-size:90%; line-height:90%;"> Southern Conference

Southern Conference

The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North...

| Conf | Overall Team W L W L PF PA Appalachian State

2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team

5 2 13 2 641 400 5 2 9 4 444 323 Georgia Southern

2007 Georgia Southern Eagles football team

-Schedule:-West Georgia:It was a successful coaching debut for Chris Hatcher, who took over as Eagles coach after winning a national championship at Valdosta State in NCAA Division II...

4 3 7 4 402 348 4 3 7 4 400 334 4 3 7 4 434 310 4 3 6 5 348 350 2 5 2 9 255 369 0 7 1 10 285 504

Automatic berths

Conference	Champion
Big Sky Conference Big Sky Conference The Big Sky Conference is an intercollegiate college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I, with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. The BSC was founded in 1963. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the states of Arizona,...	Montana and Eastern Washington
Colonial Athletic Association Colonial Athletic Association The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...	Massachusetts and Richmond
Gateway Football Conference	Northern Iowa
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States...	Delaware State
Ohio Valley Conference Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...	Eastern Kentucky
Patriot League Patriot League The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I) for a number of sports; in football, it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision...	Fordham
Southern Conference Southern Conference The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North...	Appalachian State and Wofford
Southland Conference Southland Conference The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...	McNeese State

Invitation

Conference	Champion
Big South Conference Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. The conference's football teams are part of the Football Championship Subdivision...	Liberty
Great West Football Conference Great West Football Conference The Great West Conference is an NCAA college athletic conference in the continental United States. Formerly a football-only conference, in 2008 it became an all-sports conference...	South Dakota State
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. MAAC teams compete in the NCAA's Division I. Most of the members are Catholic or formerly Catholic institutions; the only exception is the private but secular Rider...	Duquesne, Iona, and Marist
Northeast Conference Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference is a college athletic conference whose schools are members of the NCAA. The NCAA designates the Northeast Conference to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision for Division I Men's Football and to Division I Sports for all other sports.Founded in 1981 as the ECAC-Metro...	Albany
Pioneer Football League Pioneer Football League The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates in the East, Midwest, and California of the United States. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. The conference participates in the NCAA's...	Dayton

Abstains

Conference	Champion
Ivy League Ivy League The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...	Harvard
Southwestern Athletic Conference Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black universities in the Southern United States...	Jackson State

NCAA FCS Playoff bracket

* Host institution

SWAC Championship Game
SWAC Championship Game
The SWAC Championship Game is an American college football game held on the first Saturday in December by the Southwestern Athletic Conference each year to determine its football champion. The game pits the champion of the Eastern Division against the champion of the Western Division in a game...

Date	Location	Venue	West Div. Champion	East Div. Champion	Result
December 15	Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...	Legion Field Legion Field Legion Field is a large stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, primarily designed to be used as a venue for American football, but is occasionally used for other large outdoor events. The stadium is named in honor of the American Legion, a U.S. organization of military veterans. At its peak...			Jackson State, 42–31

Gridiron Classic

The Gridiron Classic

Gridiron Classic

The Gridiron Classic was the name given to a college football game played between teams from the Pioneer Football League and Northeast Conference at the end of the 2006-2009 seasons...

is an annual game between the champions of the Northeast Conference

Northeast Conference

The Northeast Conference is a college athletic conference whose schools are members of the NCAA. The NCAA designates the Northeast Conference to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision for Division I Men's Football and to Division I Sports for all other sports.Founded in 1981 as the ECAC-Metro...

and the Pioneer Football League

Pioneer Football League

that has been held since December 2006.

Date	Location	Venue	NEC Champion	PFL Champion	Result
December 1	Dayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...	Welcome Stadium Welcome Stadium Welcome Stadium is a 11,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Dayton, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by the Dayton Public Schools. It opened in 1949, and is home to all Dayton public high schools as well as the University of Dayton Flyers football team. It hosted the 1961 Aviation Bowl and the...			Dayton, 42–21

Final poll standings

Standings are from The Sports Network

The Sports Network (wire service)

Based in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, The Sports Network is a wire service providing sports information in real time. Their Web site claims that they are "the largest privately owned international sports information service in North America and possibly the world"...

final 2007 poll.

Rank	Team	Record
1	Appalachian State Mountaineers 2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team The 2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the college football season of 2007–2008. The team was coached by Jerry Moore and the Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina.The football team competes in...	13–2
2	Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team The 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football in its seventh season as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association , and the football program's...	11–4
3		13–2
4	Northern Iowa Panthers 2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team The 2007 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was coached by Mark Farley and played their home games in the UNI-Dome...	12–1
5	Richmond Spiders 2007 Richmond Spiders football team The 2007 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football during the 2007 season...	11–3
6		9–4
7	Massachusetts Minutemen 2007 UMass Minutemen football team The 2007 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. The team was coached by Don Brown and played its home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Amherst,...	8–4
8		9–4
9		10–1
10		11–1
11		11–1
12		8–4
13		9–3
14		7–5
15	Delaware State Hornets	10–2
16		7–4
17	Georgia Southern Eagles 2007 Georgia Southern Eagles football team -Schedule:-West Georgia:It was a successful coaching debut for Chris Hatcher, who took over as Eagles coach after winning a national championship at Valdosta State in NCAA Division II...	7–4
18		8–4
19		7–4
20		8–4
21		8–2
22		9–1
23		7–4
24		7–4
25		8–4

External links

List of FCS Schools

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Rule changes for 2007

FCS team wins over FBS teams

Conference standings

Automatic berths

Invitation

Abstains

NCAA FCS Playoff bracket

Gridiron Classic

Final poll standings

See also

Historic games

External links