Alvarez: No more games against FCS

UNDATED (AP) — The Big Ten is considering cutting back on the cupcakes.

Conference officials are discussing no longer scheduling games against Football Championship Subdivision opponents.

“We've made an agreement that our future games will all be Division I schools,” Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said on WIBA, a radio station in Madison, Wis. “It will not be FCS schools.”

Teams from FCS, formally known as I-AA, have become common nonconference opponents for FBS teams because they will accept take a relatively big payday without asking for a game on their campus. Generally, they provide little more than a tuneup for the teams from college football's highest level — with some notable exceptions such as Appalachian State winning at Michigan in 2007.

Most of those matchups, though, don't do much to generate excitement for fans or TV networks.

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