YouTube video by Trenton Luera ranking and commenting on the weakest Division I FCS (D1FCS) conferences. The speaker explains what D1FCS is, contrasts it with FBS, and lists conferences they consider weakest — mentioning the Ivy League (criticized for not participating in FCS playoffs and not offering athletic scholarships) and the Northeast Conference (noting conference champions like Duquesne made the FCS playoffs).
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Worst D1FCS conferences First off, if you don't know what D1FCS, it's essentially D1AA. So step below D1FBs, which is the Football Bowl Subdivision, which is where all the big schools that you see on TV all the time play. While the FCS is still really great schools, still D1 schools, it's where schools like South Dakota State, North Dakota, all those other smaller schools that you see play in this division. So let's dive into the list. So number three I have the Ivy League schools. To be honest, they wouldn't even be in this list. But the biggest issue is the they have no FCS championships because they don't play in the FCS playoffs and most of their schedule is just amongst themselves. So there's really no way of telling like how good these teams are. They play a couple of out of conference games, but for the most part just with them being able to not give athletic scholarships like most schools, the talent level is definitely not as high as some of those top conferences. At number two I have the Northeast Conference Conference champion. Duquesne ended up making the FCS playoffs as most of the FSNS conference automatically get a.