(04-16-2013 10:10 PM)Lolly Popp Wrote: FAMU doesn't count and shouldn't be on this list. They never played any sort of FBS schedule. They wanted to go FBS but failed to do so. What they did in 2004 would be the equivalent of what Georgia State did last year, or UMass/USA/TxSt/UTSA in 2011 -- FCS planning to move up and therefore ineligible for the playoffs -- but they never followed through with an actual move to FBS, and returned to the MEAC with FCS eligibility restored in 2005, never to speak of attempting such a harebrained scheme again. They are an asterisk in the history of very overblown ambition.
Again, I relied entirely on sports-reference.com. Make of it what you will.
I did go back and find FAMU's 2004 results:
Nov 27, 2004 Miami, FL Fla. International 40, Florida A&M 23
Nov 20, 2004 Orlando, FL Bethune-Cookman 58, Florida A&M 52
Oct 30,2004 Tallahassee, Fla. Florida Atlantic 38, Florida A&M 8
Oct 23, 2004 Tallahassee, FL Florida A&M 50, Savannah State 14
Oct 16, 2004 Blacksburg, Va. Virginia Tech 62, Florida A&M 0
Oct 09, 2004 Tallahassee, FL Nicholls State 42, Florida A&M 25
Oct 02, 2004 Tallahassee, FL Florida A&M 35, Virginia Union 10
Sep 25, 2004 Atlanta, Georgia Florida A&M 21, Tennessee State 15
Sep 18, 2004 Philadelphia, PA Temple 38, Florida A&M 7
Sep 11, 2004 New Orleans, La. Tulane 39, Florida A&M 19
Sep 04, 2004 Champaign, Ill. Illinois 52, Florida A&M 13
They played 11 games, 5 versus FCS Opponents, 4 versus FBS opponents, and 2 versus other transitional FBS opponents (FIU and FAU).
This is quite similar to the schedule that UTSA played in their first year of FBS last year, in both cases transitional schedules that would not qualify as FBS schedules for a full FBS member. This is in contrast to Texas St., for instance, which did have an FBS qualifying schedule even though it was in a transitional year.