... Division II to Division I. If the SLC awarded the championship trophy to UCA, the league would have lost its automatic qualifier to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs last year. Texas State, with a fine season at 5-2, finishing ...

... record in the Southland this season at 6-1 though it was ineligible for the conference championship and league's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I Football Championships because of its transition from Division II. During the last two ...

... 2006 when Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky dropped the sport. A league has to have at least six members to have an automatic qualifier to the NCAA playoffs. "Both of these schools had great soccer success and tradition on their campuses at another ...

... Bears became the first transitional team in NCAA history to end the season in first place in a conference with an automatic qualifier for the playoffs. Because of that automatic bid, and the NCAA's ruling that per its bylaws the SLC must forfeit ...

... because that would have nullified the conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision football playoffs. By rule, that automatic qualifier goes to the official conference champion that is ...

... NCAA Division III West Regional at McMinnville, Ore. It the first NCAA bid for the Warriors, who gained the automatic qualifier by winning the SCAC title. The Warriors will join a fellow SCAC member, 12th-ranked Millsaps College, in the ...

... distance medley relay), but we didn't get the automatic qualifier. "And I ran well and placed second in the mile, but I didn't get an automatic qualifier and I didn't win the race. So I would say it ...

... have in the playoffs. The question was the AQ (automatic qualifier)." The champion of the Southland Conference ... receive a clear answer," said Burnett about the automatic qualifier if UCA earned the title. "In discussion, it ...

... the Bears as the league's automatic qualifier, which he intended to award ... proposed to designate its automatic qualifier and its postseason eligible ... team, we would lose our AQ (automatic qualifier for this season)," Burnett ...

... include UCA on the postseason eligibility form and automatic qualifier designation for 2009 that he submitted to the NCAA ... concerning UCA and how the conference had designated the automatic qualifier, he was informed there was a problem after the ...