The 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season, the 2008 season of college football for teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), began on August 28, 2008, and concluded on December 19, 2008, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the 2008 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, where the Richmond Spiders defeated the Montana Grizzlies to win the NCAA Division I Football Championship. This was the first season in which a standard provision of NCAA rules allowed FCS teams to schedule 12 regular-season games (not counting conference championship games). In years when the period starting with the Thursday before Labor Day and ending with the final Saturday in November contains 14 Saturdays, FCS programs may play 12 games instead of the regular 11.

FCS team wins over FBS teams

August 30 – Cal Poly 29, San Diego State 27 September 6 – New Hampshire 28, Army 10

Notable upsets

Conference changes and new programs

Conference standings

Conference champions

Automatic berths

Invitation

Abstains

• Overall record, Conference record

Postseason

NCAA Division I playoff bracket

• Host institution

SWAC Championship Game

Gridiron Classic

The Gridiron Classic is an annual game between the champions of the Northeast Conference and the Pioneer Football League that has been held since December 2006.

Final poll standings

Standings are from The Sports Network final 2008 poll.

Rule changes for 2008

The NCAA football rules committee made several rule changes for 2008, and includes the following: