Location, Money and Conference Play —Why Pepperdine Doesn’t Have a Football Team

Tari Frahm Rhokus Field shines on the Pepperdine Malibu campus Sept. 23. Pepperdine is one of 350 Division I schools that doesn't have football. Photo courtesy of Brandon Rabsamen

Fall is a signal of many things, but for some colleges, it’s football season.

Out of the 350 Division I schools in the NCAA, 112 schools do not have a football program, including Pepperdine, according to NCAA Sport.

Even with the various difficulties in creating a football team — such as location, money and conference play — President Jim Gash wrote in an Sept. 16 email to the Graphic he would not rule out anything with certainty in regard to the creation of another football team.

“I suppose it is possible that another president and another Board of Regents down the road will evaluate things differently, but I honestly can’t conceive of us adding a football program at any time in the foreseeable future,” Gash wrote.”

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