Millsaps College, Point Park University Adding Flag Football

Two more NCAA schools will add women's flag football over the next two academic years. Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, will add a club team for the 2025-26 academic year and elevate the program to varsity status for the 2026-27 academic year.

Millsaps is the first school in the state of Mississippi to offer the program at the varsity level. The Majors are also the first school from the NCAA Division III Southern Athletic Association to add a flag football team.

Over a dozen NCAA D-III schools will begin competing during the 2026-27 academic year, including all six American Southwest Conference members, Albright College (PA), Blackburn College (IL), Eureka College (IL), Guilford College (NC), Meredith College (NC), Ripon College (WI), and Westminster College (MO).

The other NCAA school to add flag football is Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Like Millsaps, they are the first school in the NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference to offer the sport. Point Park will compete for the first time during the 2026-27 academic year. Pennsylvania has 30 schools that will offer a club or varsity flag football team by the 2026-27 academic year.

Four NCAA D-II schools have announced their flag football team will begin competing in the 2026-27 academic year. The other three are Caldwell University (NJ), Goldey-Beacom College (DE), and Saginaw Valley State University (MI).

The NCAA is expected to add flag football to its Emerging Sports for Women Program and could reach NCAA Championship status in 2028, according to NCAA President Charlie Baker. The addition of flag football as a championship sport would coincide with flag football making its Olympic debut during the first week of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Over 200 schools are expected to participate in flag football during the 2025-26 academic year at a club or varsity level, and more than 100 will be new programs.