2026 NPI Season Setup
Everything needed to stand up the NPI app: the D3 team & conference list, the season-long schedule, and a check of our schedule against D3football.
Season Setup Status
2026 Season
active
Active
NPI cutoff: 2026-11-16244 teams in DB1217 games in DB
244 active D3 teams
38 Non-D3 opponents are excluded from this list.
Provisional (reclassifying) teams
St. Francis (Presidents' Athletic Conference) and Azusa Pacific (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) — awaiting NCAA D3 classification.
- Games never count as conference/OOC matchups.
- Games against them DO count toward opponents' overall and vs-D3 records.
- Excluded from conference standings math; records carry a "Prov." marker.
2026 name & record changes
- Whittier — 2026-specific record (no predecessor)
- Washington U. — Succeeds Washington U. (2026 record) | Conference move: CCIW -> NCAC
- Vermont State Castleton — Renamed from Castleton
- St. Francis — 2026-specific record (no predecessor) | Provisional: counts toward opponents' overall & vs-D3 records; never counts as a conference or OOC game
- Schreiner — 2026-specific record (no predecessor)
- McMurry — Succeeds McMurry (2026 record) | Conference move: SCAC -> ASC
- Luther — Football moved from American Rivers Conference to Midwest Conference (MWC) for 2026 season
- Gallaudet — Succeeds Gallaudet (2026 record) | Conference move: ODAC -> SCAC
- Azusa Pacific — 2026-specific record (no predecessor) | Provisional: counts toward opponents' overall & vs-D3 records; never counts as a conference or OOC game
1217 games across weeks 1–11, with team names, conferences, kickoff times, conference-game flags, regions, and a column marking games that involve a provisional team.
421
Played / No-Contest
888
Conference games
17
Involves provisional
11
Weeks (1–11)
Each team's name in the CSV matches the Team column of the teams export, so the two files join cleanly.