2 TEAMS		JOINED	STADIUM
	Connecticut Huskies	2020	RENTSCHLER FIELD (EAST HARTFORD, CT)
	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	1990	Notre Dame Stadium (south bend,IN)

In recent years, most independent FBS schools have joined a conference for two primary reasons: a guaranteed share of television and bowl revenues and ease of scheduling.

In addition it may be possible that a new school leaves, is forced out from a conference, or has reclassified themselves from a different NCAA division and are not able to join a new conference immediately after entering the FBS thus forcing them to be an independent school.

Notre Dame opted to play a full ACC football schedule for the 2020 season only due to the Covid-19 pandemic causing the cancellation of several non-ACC games before returning in 2021 to indpendence and its previous 5 ACC game schedule.