The
NCAA Division I FCS
Mid Major National Football
Championship was an unofficial championships label that
began in 2001 and ended after the 2007 season. Prior to 2001,
mid-major National Champions were named by
various polls like Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette
and the Dopke collegesportsreport.com polls, but no "consensus"
champion was named. Beginning for the 2008 season, the Sports
Network ceased the mid-major poll and began including the teams
previously ranked in the mid-major poll into consideration for the
full Division I FCS poll.
Generally, the teams that were ranked in the poll were from three
conferences, the Pioneer Football League, the Northeast Conference
and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Association (before pulling
sponsorship of FCS football after the 2007 season). These
conferences were three of 6 Division I FCS football conferences
that did not receive automatic bids to the
NCAA
Division I Football Championship Subdivision championship
tournament. (Beginning for the 2010 season, the winner of the
Northeast Conference will be awarded an automatic bid to the FCS
playoffs.)
The Sports Network Cup was awarded annually to the winner. Like the
Stanley Cup, the Sports Network Cup was
a travelling trophy. It spent the year at the winning school and is
passed on to the next winner annually.
The polls that were used to determine the annual champion are the
Sports Network (for which the trophy is named), Don Hansen's
National Weekly Football Gazette, and the Dopke College Sports
Report Polls.
(Notes: A team does not have to be named the national champion by
all three polls in order to win the Sports Network Cup. They must
only be named so by the Sports Network. Hence, the trophy is named
the Sports Network Cup. "Consensus" in this instance then means
more in the regard of the Sports Network's authority to name a
national champion rather than an agreement by all three major
polls.)
Previous champions
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