Quote Originally Posted by aceinthehole View Post
Correct. This list is regarding D-I athletics, not football specifically. Pre-1993 "Dayton Rule" WCU was D-I in basketball and other sporst, but remain D-II in football.

Technically, Winston-Salem was never D-I despite playing in the MEAC for 2 seasons (2008-10). They were a "transitional" member of D-I and never completed the reclassification.
Most of the Yankee Conference schools were like this. DII in football but DI in basketball. Then moved up to I-AA in football when the division was created.

Holy Cross-UConn was a pretty big basketball rivalry in the 1960's and 70's, with the two sometimes meeting in the ECAC New England tournament with NCAA bid on the line. However, in football, they were sort of little brother to us. We were the DI power playing the Division II foe. And then when the football series resumed with games in 2017 and 2021, the roles were reversed.