Only 16 Of 133 FBS Teams Will Not Play An FCS Team During 2023 College Football Season

Scheduling non-conference games is not the easiest thing. While some teams seek to pad the win column by scheduling teams it should defeat, and perhaps handily, broken schedule agreements can leave a team scrambling to fill a vacancy. Such instances could result in a team scheduling an opponent, such as one from the Football Championship Subdivision, it otherwise would not.

Only 16 of 133 Football Bowl Subdivision programs do not play an FCS team in 2023. Notre Dame will play one for the first time when the Irish host Tennessee State on September 2. As noted in this piece, that will leave USC as the only FBS program to not have played an FCS team.