The Difference Between Division 1, Division 2, and Division 3 

🤣🤣🤣🤣 So true!

#Facts Definitely About Screen Time For NFL Scouts

I know right lol

P5 has professionals g5 no way has them

No, the injured players are the film crew. lol

No doubt . . Most fbs schools have "servants" tending to players every need. Lol

This is so true. Some of these colleges are football programs with english classes on the side.

As a D3 athlete myself I can definitely attest to this. It’s not nearly as much of a commitment as D1 athletics but you get absolutely zero sympathy from professors. There’s no money in D3 sports and pretty much no one’s going pro, so you’re there for school first and are expected to set your priorities that way

@@theleftuprightatsoldierfield the commitment part is true. If you have a test or lab, usually the d3 program will allow you to miss practice for it. But, that doesn't mean it wasn't a lot of hard work. We still had practice or conditioning in the morning, film study in the afternoon and practice after classes. The day is usually over by then, unless a coach wants you to have study hall or something in the evening.

@@theleftuprightatsoldierfield yea i was agreeing with you. Just expanded on your comment just in case people unfamiliar would think being a D3 athlete is easy. It's not. Most either quit or simply leave the team for a variety of reasons after their freshman years.

who is the rb?

D3 is also pay to play, with more free time to participate in other things. But also at much smaller schools.

Good analysis. I was a D3 strong safety(many moons ago) Our O-line averaged about 210lbs. We had one guy who went to the NFL-a TE who was the biggest guy on the team at 6'4", 240lbs.

BS. I never got hooked up for ANY classes. Stop believing rumors. 😒...

D2 schools as well you'd be surprised

@@markfrank5937 They totally do lol

As a Current d1 football player trust me we don’t

@@austinkurmay8646 ahh yes I’d expect a d1 athlete to have their name be “Asian Kidd”

But Nebraska can't

Lmaooo

Prolly Arizona as well

Everybody has off days , just ask Michigan 🙄 just that most schools laughing at Nebraska dont come close to the storrid history or effect Nebraska has had on cfb over the last 50 years. Nobody stays on top of the mountain forever Nebraska was there for along time, thats why the haters are coming out of the wood works they remember how it once was

@@Kylorenz710 Nebraska has been more of an off decade lol. you're the only one talking about their history in this. We're laughing about them because they've been bad for years now. The Scott frost era has been a disaster. We're not gonna hold off criticism of Nebraska just cuz they were good in the years before we were even alive. Tbh ppl like this who coddle Nebraska and ignore their on-field performance in favor of discussing their decades in the past glory are part of the reason y'all still suck. Y'all should be demanding changes in the program for how unacceptable the last decade plus has been

Good breakdown

I do remember a few years ago that my states D1 FBS school was beaten handily but a school that my D2 Alma Mater outscored by about 50.

Skill wise especially in basketball, alot of D2 or D3 teams have better shooters than a lot of D1’s team just cuz of the nature of gameplay….Since they don’t have these big athletic guys for the most part, they shoot long range shots at a HIGH volume efficiently

Biggest difference between D1 and D2 football is the OLine/Dline. It’s hard to find big athletic linemen, so D1s scoop them up. There’s a lot more good athletes who fall through the cracks in the skill positions.

I know a lot of pro players that played d3

Bravo!!! I think a degree is individual tho. I mean you got Pro athletes who are doctors, n lawyers etc. I can’t say an education at a D3 is better. (your daughter still had to go to med school, which probably wasn’t were she was an undergrad athlete) No matter what level, the main purpose is to get an education. If you want an education you will get it if not you won’t.

@@kevinthomas7526 your right but I think it helped her get though school with less distractions from the pressure of a D1 athletic program . With her Academic and Athletic scholarships it paid for her primary college education. We found it rare to get a full ride in women’s track in a D1 school. PS she’s actually a anesthetist.

Congrats on your daughter all American achievement.

You just wanted to randomly flex that? 😂

Congratulations 🎊. With practice, training, traveling, and competing in meets I'm sure it was hard on her to study for her classes.

Yoooo I route for them too. I’m from PA! Saw they had a solid season 2 years ago before the stupid pandemic.

I wouldn’t mind if they offered me 😂

Everyone from my high school ends up going to slippery rock i swear at least 50% of them

The first year that I attended Florida Atlantic (FAU) was the first season for the football program. Slippery Rock was one of our very first opponents.

@@ChrisBChronisterJr92 absolutely. I go back and talk to the team Coach Lutz is a great guy. Roland should be playing pro. His stats were better than Joe burrows

Id love to go to Michigan State but given how expensive it is, id have to settle for a smaller school like Valdosta State here in Georgia since its my current state residence and Im only 33 years old. MSU is my team when it comes to college sports and has become the identity i didnt have when i was younger in high school trying to find my own identity when it came to college sports. While everyone around me rooted for UGA, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USC (South Carolina), Alabama, or Clemson...I didnt have much of an identity except leaned on teams my friends or family rooted for (which was UGA or UTK (University of Tennessee)). Now in my older age, i favor MSU highly because its a team i found myself to be a fan of truly and not because i was pushed towards it through friends and family. Through wins or losses, I root for Michigan State and not jumping on a bandwagon like some people do.

@@LagunaShirogane Michigan State is a great choice. They have a beautiful campus and great academics. And sports are always a popular thing of course.

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I know this is totally unrelated but I wanted to ask if exercise science major students get to work with athletes on campus? Thanks

Coach Nelson is now my coach idk if you know him but he was a coach there for a while

Im a broncos fan, hadnt heard of the school till we drafted Quin Menierz

Same. Good to see. Too bad they stunk while I was an undergrad

Go Warhawks! Class of 1974 graduate

Ha ha. Trying to keep it all rattling around in your head without visual aids... lol.

@@SuperSirianRigel Don't belittle him as Chris has a good point and I was thinking the same thing while watching the vid. Many RU-vid channels do this as it's more interesting to watch than cut and paste old college football videos while reading off a script.

@@Psiber_Syn What??? I wasn't belittling anyone. I'm pretty sure I was agreeing. Because it was a lot to keep track of in your head without visual aids. lol. Yeah, pretty sure I was agreeing with the dude.

The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of NCAA Division I, is the highest level of collegiate football in the nation. The conferences are ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC American Athletic, USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and SunBelt. FBS conferences are known as Power 5’s, ( ACC, BIG10, Pac12, BIG12, SEC) or P5, and Group of 5 or G5’s (AAC,USA,MAC,MW, SB) The P5’s, n Independent Notre Dame (there are 7 Indy‘ schools UMass, UConn, Liberty, Army, BYU, n New Mexico State) may breakaway from NCAA, n do their own thing. The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, is the second-highest level of college football. FCS, comprises 14 conferences: the Big Sky, Big South, CAA, Independent, Ivy, MEAC, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Pioneer, Southern, Southland and SWAC conferences.

I agree. Should have integrated some graphics to read instead of just reading a script with football to watch.

How was the win against Michigan in 2007 a fluke.

@@Jamesthevampire7172 If you look at the size and speed of the guys on each school’s rosters, their weight room stats, play experience, and just sheer stamina, I have no doubt that Michigan was twice App’s numbers. On that day in 2007, though, the Wolverines were unprepared (maybe lazy?), and my Mountaineers came hungry. It was simply a perfect storm scenario, a fluke.

@@andyatkins1 oh ok and another thing Michigan just didn’t expect the kind of game that app State played

There is no such thing as a fluke. Any team can win so long as every player executes his play....... Be proud of that win...as it was won not given to AS.

That was one of the best football games ever! Michigan would probably win 99/100 but it doesn't matter. Appalachian State was the best team at the big house that day. Forever.

It's heartbreaking sometimes

Politics that's why he's not from the south, midwest, or west coast they don't usually pay attention to O linemen unless they attended school in those regions

a lot of it can be preference. i dont know him, but maybe he wasnt as passionate about football as a lot of other people and just wanted to play for fun instead of having the need to compete and punish himself to make d1

Must have been pretty good if you played in the PSAC! What school did you play for??

@@wdeagles05 Ship

Screw Auburn but Go Argos

Go Argos! Roll Tide!😂

i play football for minnesota state, hopefully we meet again sometime 🤣🐬

Go argos. Just graduated there with my bachelors. Going to Florida state now for my masters

@@Detriment44 Why? I don't ever get why people would want to go to such expensive schools unless they have ability to do that. If I were to get a scholarship to DI school for anything sports-wise I'd take it, but if I were given a chance at a partial scholarship for DIII, I wouldn't hesitate for that either.

Good point, I live in northern Pennsylvania, we have a d3 school Lackawanna college that springs kids to d1 quie often. We also have bloomsburg, east stroudsburg both d2 that I have rarely hear of any kids going to a d1 school.

I noticed that you chose to emphasize sports over academics in your comment...tells me a lot.

@@derricklanders1921 Buddy what you talking about I said little to nothing about academics and sports. If you're trying to say I care about sports more than education you can tell my 3.8 GPA that as well.

@@wdeagles05 #1 What was your major? #2 You and others like you are at times merely anecdotal. #3 I assume that you understand sentence structure, syntax and everything that goes along with the formation of a coherent paragraph - "intent" and "messaging" matter - so I'm taking your comment at face value.

@@derricklanders1921 cyber security and you still don’t seem to see that my comment was about the entire univeristy itself and not just sports. Plus I’m still in school

@@wdeagles05 What I am questioning is your statement that the academics are according to you "...a little bit better than High School...", please elaborate.

just say whitewater

Explain

@@ayohonchotv7573 D3 schools will recruit 60 kids with 160 players on a roster. They simply can’t say no. D1 schools knows who they want and how much people on the team they want on a twam

Team

@@MyaseliaGolden D2 is a lot like D1 in terms of roster size.

@@ID0XX I’ve heard D2 recruiting is more lenient.. why is that?

U play for Soutwestern ? I’m a a d3 school in NY playing Lacrosse but I’m from Texas

GO BUCCS BRENDON!!! YALL BEAT COLORADO COLLEGE THIS YEAR

D3 take their 27 conference champs and 5 high ranked or high bid teams and player them in the playoffs based on SOS and record D2 is more harder to under stand as they pick teams with the best records from each region to play in their playoffs as they don’t have automatic bids

I was at that game! It probably didn't help that they were playing against a D2 team. I've always wondered why they can't seem to get bigger crowds. About the only games they've filled the facility is playing against NDSU. But usually they average probably 10,000-15,000. I'm surprised NDSU doesn't move up to FBS, it sounds like they usually fill 18,000 seat FargoDome. Heck, they would probably have to find a way to expand it.

@@UltimaOmega even if you avg 15k avg a year doesn't mean you move up. University of Montana avgs over 22k a year and has done so for decades. They just don't want to move up like Boise st did decades ago

@@UltimaOmega NDSU's main issue is geography, the nearest FBS schools are Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa State, and Nebraska, and the nearest G5 is Northern Illinois, followed by Wyoming, Colorado State and Air Force, etc. The MAC would be a terrible place to go, C-USA isn't any better, the Mountain West is too far away and spread out so no drivable games, and the American is also too spread out. And I absolutely guarantee that the FBS doesn't have anything to offer that compares to 3 weeks of partying in/around the Dome in December, a mid/lower level bowl game that is only half full with a dead atmosphere is not appealing.

Which school

FCS is division 1 though.

@@markg999 in name only

You’ve got an interesting game next Saturday

That's because Ice Hockey doesn't have a Division 2 (Don't know why tbh) so Schools at that level with Hockey programs go D1 or D3 for that sport only.

my boy play at buff state

Aye I play at buff state

@@chrislyons5576 you prolly know my friend

@@chrislyons5576 then you know we beat u guys week 1 👀

@@ryandelaine4282 oh ok

Mt. Union has been to the Stagg Bowl 21 times and won 13 titles. UW-Whitewater has been to the Stagg Bowl 10 times and won 6. Mt. Union was Whitewater’s opponent in 9 of those 10 appearances, including 7 in a row from 2005-2011 and 9 in 10 years as they played each other again in 2013 and 2014. It was part of Mt. Union’s 11 consecutive Stagg Bowl appearances, as they beat St. Thomas (MN) in 2012 and 2015. This meant the primary color of every Stagg Bowl participant from 2005-2015 was purple. The highest all-time winning percentage among schools participating in D3 is St. John’s (MN) at .717 (653-251-24). They have won 4 National Championships (2 NAIA, 2 NCAA D3) and were coached for over 50 years by John Gagliardi, who has more wins than any other college football coach in all divisions (489-138-11). St. John’s and Whitewater usually jockey for highest average D3 attendance every year. Whitewater has the record for largest on-campus crowd at 17,535 vs. UW-Oshkosh in 2016. St. John’s has numbers 2-5 for games vs. St. Thomas, the highest being 17,327 in 2015. The highest off-campus attendance was Ithaca vs. Cortland at MetLife Stadium in a 150th anniversary of college football celebration that drew 45,161. Second was the 2017 St. Thomas-St. John’s game that drew 37,355 to Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins. Third was the 2019 St. Thomas-St. John’s game that drew 19,508 to Allianz Field, home of Minnesota United FC.

@@alecerdmann8505 - Thank you for your steady research. I have not taken the time to look into this and other information. IF I didn't mentioned this previously, I attended UW-La Crosse in the 1990s before graduating from Upper Iowa University in 2016. Academic issues forced me to leave UW-La Crosse in 1993 and I took the LONG ROAD to get my Master's Degree. (Associate in Applied Sciences at Western Wisconsin Technical College in 2000; Bachelors at UIU in 2015/16; and a Master's in 2020 from Colorado Technical University.) Going from a Division III to a Division II was a STEP UP...and a surprise. I am a Marine and Gulf War veteran, and would have excelled at either football or baseball...if I had kept my academic issues in check.

UWW just won their 38th conference championship today

I'm still disappointed that the Johnnie/Tommie game that was going to be held at US Bank was canceled! I was at the Target Field & Allianz games. St John's thumped St Thomas in their last two matchups!

And Wisconsin-Whitewater

I played for Williams. Those games are unforgettable!

God no

That's like watching 3A highschool.

NAIA & HBCUs & Juco Football.

It’s still college ball

@@vernonhooks9161 yeah, crappy college ball.

@@Theguy5117 how so it seems pretty accurate to me.

@@Theguy5117 you were a student athlete who played your sport , you didnt get paid or get monetary compensation, hence "hobby"

@@Theguy5117 read the entirety of what I wrote, there are kids who play a sport intensely but just dont have the talent/size/athleticism to play at the next level, the percentage of athletes who go D1 is tiny compared to how many play high school ball, there is nothing wrong with continuing to play at the d3 level or even Naia, but the overall levels of talent are exactly what I wrote.

@@kingryan69u think people who go d3 could transfer to d1 if they didn’t have any d1s offers out of high school and that’s their goal? (D1 interest but no offers)

They would have to have some serious talent and size /speed@@ynbfill2270

Just write your statement without the played out meme preface " fun little fact"

@@Macabre124 didn’t even know it was a meme to be honest

I went to Div III school before transferring to UGA (Div 1) and boy what a difference in skill for football. Very substantial difference as you pointed out but In other sports like Cross country as you pointed, even Div III can compete with Div III honestly ...especially from what I've seen

@@Macabre124 absolutely, the best US 800 runner, Nick Simmons was a D III athlete, the man can run a 1:45 800 and was on the Olympic team! Imagine star NFL players being from a D III program, it just doesn’t happen!

Wasn’t enough to get past us. Go Cards. NCC

Don’t you have anything better to do than get mad at a school for doing a good job recruiting?

Ayy Marietta is in the same conference as them.

I was recruited to Mt Union! And we do it because we can

@@outwardpanicjoe8950 At least Marietta isn't as bad off as Wilmington....

This is an accurate and concise broad overview of the D-II LANDSCAPE. 👏🏽

Bandwagon fan.

GO CUSE

@@nathansunday3979 I'm a SUNY New Paltz grad, and we've got a few natty's for basically every sport we've done since the 60s and our last coming in 2019 in volleyball, on the men's side. I actually got to talk to someone, a girl friend of mine, was on the women's lacrosse team (they weren't very good unfortunately), but individually they were all very athletic and good. It's just as a team they weren't the most disciplined. Almost 20 assists in her last season for her. And she told me that after class one day, since I asked that I was curious how it worked, she said that even before classes, her day started with a 3-mile warmup run with a few others on the team. Then after that they'd go their own ways and go to class, during practice, they'd be running sprints and practicing their half-court plays, and those practices could run from 40 minutes to 2 hours and 40. Then, they'd be done and she'd go and work part-time as the school's radio co-host with another person. She explained she only got a partial scholarship, and some didn't even get partial scholarships until their sophomore year, but she was lucky because hers came as a merits-based scholarship, where they would pay through the scholarship for half the tuition and all of the room-and-board for her, and 8 others on the team, so the rest of them. All 16 of them in total. That meant the others who weren't on scholarships yet, usually were freshman, and they had to take out student loans (I'm just learning how much of vultures these student loan collecting agencies can be) because they'd not get their scholarship awarded until senior year. So, a lot of them would get part-time jobs on-campus doing something and that would help pay anything they could.

Cool I also live in pensacola

Definitely agreed. My DIII school I went to is very highly rated in NY state so we have a high standard just to get in to the school. My grades weren't good enough to get in from HS, so I went to community college for two years and then there, and I was always going to get in because I had a 3.2 and 2.85 was the requirement for what I was trying to get in for (English was the degree, Fiction Writing was my concentration, and Literature was my minor, I broke it up so it would be easier to follow than the combo Creative Writing and Literature, and it was) . Our school were champions in baseball, Basketball, volleyball, swimming, and even Cross country running we were solid, but I talked to quite a few athletes I had in classes, asking them if they were going pro, and they all looked at me like I was crazy, saying, "I'm not nearly that level, I really just got to this level and got the partial scholarship because I knew I would need it to help pay for schooling."

Everyone in march madness is D1 though.

Hell yea another shepherd fan here, I actually went there and we came 1 game from winning the national Champs in 2015 for D2. Good times

Not gonna lie, rooting for JMU and Richmond both is a little odd considering how much they hate each other lol

You my friend are a true football fan.

That’s sad man 😕

Then there’s the Ivy League

Lmao no. D2 school maybe but there is no D3 school who could beat any D1 school. It's simply a different level of competition entirely. The coaching is different, the style of play is different and the talent gap is enormous. I don't care how good you think that D3 program is or how bad that D1 program is. It's like asking the same question of "can Alabama beat X horrible NFL team?" The answer is no. D1 is D1 for a reason and it isn't just money.

@@m00t53 I disagree. If you were to take a school like Wisconsin-Whitewater or Mount Union, I think they could compete against lower-level FCS schools. Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union essentially own Division 3 football; one of those two teams has been in the National Championship 17 times of the past 20 years and they have faced each other 9 times. As a result of their dominance, they bring in high-major and mid-major Division 1 transfers every year. I think they could compete against teams like Bucknell, Lehigh or teams on a similar level to those two. I'm not saying they'll blow those teams out, I'm not even saying they'll beat them for that matter, but I feel like those dominant teams at the Division 3 level could compete with lower-level Division One programs.

@@cgomc323 The recruiting is entirely different, the coaching is entirely different, and the bar for making the roster is entirely different. D3 teams might have D1 transfers here and there, but a team is the sum of all of its parts. The floor and ceiling are much lower for D3 than they are for D1.

​@@m00t53 Yes, all of that applies, D1 sports are higher profile and have higher standards. Regardless, I believe that the absolute floor of D1 athletic competition is not that far off of the ceiling of Divisions 2 and 3. I'm not saying that a Division 2 or 3 school could walk in and beat or even compete with a bad high-major program like Illinois or Florida State, that'd just be wrong. I'm talking low-level, FCS D1 competition or most D2 competition in general. Not every D1 athlete at every D1 school in the country has NFL level talent or could even be the best player at a D2 or D3 school. I truly believe that the absolute peak of D3 football, like Mount Union or Whitewater, could compete with the majority of D2 programs and the worst of D1. We'll just have to agree to disagree here.

@@cgomc323 I see what you're saying but I still think it's highly debatable just looking at what the FCS has done so far this season. There has been a relatively high number of FCS wins over FBS teams this season and not all of those FCS teams have even been that good relative to their own leagues. I think the gap is wider than people realize between D1 and the lower leagues and it's only getting wider.

Sounds like a school you'd randomly think of for a ncaa football 14 team builder then find out the school already exists🤣

@@jdunc3789 - the Peacocks of Upper Iowa University are a small, yet SCRAPPY team. We don’t have the amenities for Division I…nevertheless, one of the sports programs has managed a winning season or got to the playoffs/tournament. In short: We are NOT Bishop Sycamore!

They’re d1 fbs

There is no better team than the Irish in the Midwest!

Nice! Ive spent a lot of time in Huntington, Marshalls a pretty cool school. Check out the movie We are Marshall!

Beebe won a SB ring with the Packers also.

@@smokin19861and he chased down Leon Lett I’ll never forget that.

U from Indiana

@@dewayneking8917 Yes I am

Franklin College is best

Salukis, stand up!

@@robertpollard4571 Franklin had an awesome coach in Coach L. I have a lot of respect for him. I was a GA a few years back, and he spent a lot of time with me before a game just talking ball and about life.

You must have gone to a division "to" college.

@@taylordunekacke5784 😭😭

@@taylordunekacke5784 violation

So basically D2 doesn’t care?

#NAIA #HBCU