A quick guide to why Indiana, and many Power Four schools, play one game per year against teams from FCS.
In the early days of college football? Teams played nearby schools – because of the limits of transportation, but also because the hierarchy of college football hadn’t coalesced yet. It’s why in-state opponents like Butler, DePauw, Franklin and Wabash dot early Indiana schedules, even after the Hoosiers joined what became the Big Ten.
By the 2000s, with the 12-game season in-place, many programs went one step further and began adding FCS schools to their schedules. Indiana began the practice in 2002 when it played William & Mary, and with only brief interruptions, the Hoosiers have played FCS schools regularly ever since. However, there are reasons Indiana and other Big Ten schools schedule these games. Whether fans like the games or not, the schools have their reasons for scheduling them.
During the College Football Playoff era, 2014 Ohio State, 2020 Georgia and 2023 Michigan are the only schools to win the title that didn’t have a FCS opponent on their schedule.Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. is tackled by Indiana State Sycamores defensive back Micah Hauser in the second half at Memorial Stadium. For FCS teams like Indiana State and for host, the trip to Bloomington is economical.
That checks out with the nationwide trend. The going rate for a FBS school to host a FCS school is in the $500,000-per-game region. There have been a few close calls for the Hoosiers – Nicholls State in 2005 , Eastern Kentucky in 2009 , Indiana State in 2012 , Southern Illinois again in 2015 , Idaho in 2022 – but most of these games are competitively over by halftime.
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