All-time members
10
1933-1976
NCAA Division independent schools
The NCAA Division independent schools (NDIS) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1933-1976. 10 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 5 national title seasons and 9 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Current/final members
1
Final tracked snapshot
National title seasons
5
Won by member programs while in the league
Heisman winners
9
Heisman-winning seasons from member programs
Current teams
1
Final tracked membership snapshot
Latest champion
No champion available
No champion is available yet
Most conference titles
Unavailable
No official title leader is available yet
Newest members
1962
Utah State
Championship format
Standings
1972: Regular-season standings
Division status
No divisions
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Overview
Fast historical context for this conference.
The NCAA Division independent schools (NDIS) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1933-1976. 10 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 5 national title seasons and 9 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Complete latest member list
NCAA Division independent schools teams in the latest CFBTrack snapshot: Utah State.
Major eras
- 1933-1934: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1937-1952: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1953-1955: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1956-1959: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Current/final status
Historical league ending in 1976.
Latest champion: No champion available
Quick facts
- Founded / tracked from
- 1933
- Last tracked season
- 1976
- Standings seasons
- 17
- Title-game seasons
- 0
- Churn score
- 20
Members
All-time membership and tenure overview.
| Team | First season | Last season | Seasons | Status | Titles in conference | Heismans in conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame | 1937 | 1972 | 36 | Former | 5 | 6 |
| Army | 1956 | 1972 | 17 | Former | 0 | 1 |
| Navy | 1956 | 1972 | 17 | Former | 0 | 2 |
| Utah State | 1962 | 1976 | 15 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Memphis | 1960 | 1967 | 8 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| UTEP | 1960 | 1967 | 8 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Cincinnati | 1953 | 1956 | 4 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Illinois | 1969 | 1972 | 4 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas Tech | 1957 | 1959 | 3 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Tulsa | 1933 | 1934 | 2 | Former | 0 | 0 |
Membership timeline
Membership events feed
- 1977: Utah State departed
- 1973: Army departed
- 1973: Navy departed
- 1973: Northern Illinois departed
- 1973: Notre Dame departed
- 1969: Northern Illinois joined
- 1968: Memphis departed
- 1968: UTEP departed
- 1962: Utah State joined
- 1960: Texas Tech departed
- 1960: Memphis joined
- 1960: UTEP joined
- 1957: Cincinnati departed
- 1957: Texas Tech joined
- 1956: Army joined
- 1956: Navy joined
- 1953: Cincinnati joined
- 1937: Notre Dame joined
Standings
Season-aware conference standings, champion context, and tiebreak summary.
View
1976 alignment is available, but no completed conference standings are available yet. Showing latest usable standings: 1972.
View 1976 alignment1972 standings
InferredDerived from 2 completed conference games.
Member count
5
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Champion
Army, Notre Dame
Co-champions inferred from best conference record.
How this season was decided
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
| Rank | Team | Conference | Win % | Overall | PF | PA | +/- | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army ChampionCo-champion | 1-0 | 100.0 | 6-4 | 23 | 15 | 8 | — |
| 2 | Notre Dame ChampionCo-champion | 1-0 | 100.0 | 8-3 | 42 | 23 | 19 | AP #14 |
| 3 | Northern Illinois | 0-0 | 0.0 | 7-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 4 | Utah State | 0-0 | 0.0 | 8-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 5 | Navy | 0-2 | 0.0 | 4-7 | 38 | 65 | -27 | — |
Champions
Conference title history by season.
| Season | Champion | Co-champion | Qualifiers | Title game | Notes |
|---|
Champion leaders
- No official title leaders are available yet.
Era breakdown
- 1933-1934: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1937-1952: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1953-1955: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1956-1959: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
- 1960-1961: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
- 1962-1967: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
- 1968: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
- 1969-1972: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
- 1973-1976: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Structure & Tiebreakers
Era groupings and confidence-based rules context.
1933-1934
Partial1933-1934: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1935: Tulsa departed
- 1933: Tulsa joined
1937-1952
Partial1937-1952: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1953: Cincinnati joined
- 1937: Notre Dame joined
1953-1955
Partial1953-1955: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1956: Army joined
- 1956: Navy joined
- 1953: Cincinnati joined
1956-1959
Partial1956-1959: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1960: Texas Tech departed
- 1960: Memphis joined
- 1960: UTEP joined
- 1957: Cincinnati departed
1960-1961
Partial1960-1961: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1962: Utah State joined
- 1960: Texas Tech departed
- 1960: Memphis joined
- 1960: UTEP joined
1962-1967
Partial1962-1967: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1968: Memphis departed
- 1968: UTEP departed
- 1962: Utah State joined
1968-1968
Partial1968: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1969: Northern Illinois joined
- 1968: Memphis departed
- 1968: UTEP departed
1969-1972
Partial1969-1972: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1973: Army departed
- 1973: Navy departed
- 1973: Northern Illinois departed
- 1973: Notre Dame departed
1973-1976
Partial1973-1976: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1977: Utah State departed
- 1973: Army departed
- 1973: Navy departed
- 1973: Northern Illinois departed
Division history
Historical division assignments are not stored in the current dataset.
Selected season tiebreak summary
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
Realignment
Membership changes and before/after conference snapshots.
Join events
10
Derived from membership starts
Departure events
10
Derived after final membership season
Newest member
Northern Illinois
Joined in 1969
Longest member
Notre Dame
36 seasons
Shared members
Joined since start
- Utah State
Departed since start
- Tulsa
Realignment timeline
- 1977: Utah State departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1976 season.
- 1973: Army departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1972 season.
- 1973: Navy departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1972 season.
- 1973: Northern Illinois departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1972 season.
- 1973: Notre Dame departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1972 season.
- 1969: Northern Illinois joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1969 season.
- 1968: Memphis departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1967 season.
- 1968: UTEP departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1967 season.
- 1962: Utah State joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1962 season.
- 1960: Texas Tech departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1959 season.
- 1960: Memphis joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1960 season.
- 1960: UTEP joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1960 season.
- 1957: Cincinnati departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1956 season.
- 1957: Texas Tech joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1957 season.
- 1956: Army joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1956 season.
- 1956: Navy joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1956 season.
- 1953: Cincinnati joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1953 season.
- 1937: Notre Dame joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1937 season.
- 1935: Tulsa departed NCAA Division independent schools after the 1934 season.
- 1933: Tulsa joined NCAA Division independent schools for the 1933 season.
Records
Conference-level leaderboards and contribution summaries.
Most conference titles
N/A
No title leader inferred yet.
Longest membership tenure
Notre Dame
36 tracked seasons
Newest member
Northern Illinois
First joined in 1969
Most reshaped metric
20
10 joins and 10 departures tracked.
Team contribution leaderboard
In-conference totals only count seasons when the program was a member. All-time totals count the full program history.
| Team | Conference titles | National title seasons (in conference) | National title seasons (all-time) | Heismans (in conference) | Heismans (all-time) | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 36 |
| Army | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| Navy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 17 |
| Cincinnati | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Memphis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Northern Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Tulsa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Utah State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| UTEP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Data Sources
How CFBTrack treats membership, standings, champions, and future-season caveats.
Membership is tracked from curated CFBTrack conference tables. Standings and champions may be official, curated, or inferred depending on season. Future seasons are provisional until games are played and source records settle.
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