Most of these changes involved conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of Division I. Every FBS conference , as well as the ranks of FBS independents , gained and/or lost football members . Most notably , the old Big East Conference split into football-sponsoring and non-football sponsoring conferences in 2013 with the establishment of the American Athletic Conference and the new Big East Conference , while the Western Athletic Conference became the first Division I FBS conference to drop football since the Big West Conference did so in 2000
FBS independents
NCAA Division I FBS independent schools
2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment