Lopes Up - GCU Needs a D1 Football Team

12/09/2019

We hope Grand Canyon University will go bowling (or compete for an FCS championship) in the near future.

The college football bowl schedule has been set for the complete 2019-20 slate; check out all the games

12/08/2019

Let's add to the list!

Search for Division 1 football teams by state, conference and name. Find a Division 1 football team that matches your athletic and academic goals.

11/11/2019

The GCU Lopes won't have to look far for a head football coach with D1 experience AND one who has successfully built a new program.

"Mike Nesbitt stood on a dusty parking lot in Surprise three years ago, trying to envision football being played where he stood. The soon-to-be head football coach at Ottawa University of Arizona had trouble picturing college football occurring in this desolate space.

“No players, no equipment,” Nesbitt said. “We didn’t have anything when we started.”

Drive to that same location today, and you won’t find said parking lot. Instead, state-of-the-art facilities that host an NAIA football program.

Ottawa University of Arizona, which competes in the Sooner Athletic Conference for football, is ranked No. 19 in the latest NAIA Coaches Poll."

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OUAZ head coach Mike Nesbitt saw nothing but open land and opportunity in Surprise. Now, Spirit football is one of the better NAIA programs in the nation.

11/10/2019

If the GCU Lopes played NCAA Division 1 FCS football, Northern Arizona University would be a fantastic in-state rivalry game.

Bring your family and come to the football game this weekend! Video by: Abbi Jackson

05/26/2019

What do you think the GCU football uniform should look like?

https://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/110540-college-football-for-non-football-d1-teams/page/10/

02/10/2019

GCU Students and Fans are Ready!

“This is . https://t.co/Ek7Z6FxP0O”

01/06/2019

"Temple hired a media tracking firm to count the equivalent dollar value of every piece of media exposure related to Owls football over just the 2016 football season — from broadcasts on ABC and ESPN to local broadcasts in, say, Orlando after a Temple-UCF game — and found Temple University would have to spend $38 million to garner such a reach."

It’s a good time for Temple football. In fact, it’s a better time to be an Owl than it’s been in decades — perhaps ever. Over the past two seasons, the Owls have played a home-and-home with Penn State, hosted a nationally-televised primetime game with Notre Dame, appeared in back-to-back Ame...

01/06/2019

"No other sport contributes more to the vibrancy of a college campus than football."
- Steve Hatchell, President of the National Football Foundation

IRVING, Texas (June 28, 2018) – The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) highlighted today that seven college football teams will take the field for the first time this season. Including the five other colleges and universities that will take the field in the coming seasons, t...