There are seven Football Bowl Subdivisions. There are seven NCAA Division I FBS independent institutions as of the most recent 2020 college football season. These schools do not have any affiliation with a conference for financial reasons. The 2020 list includes Army, which joined the National Football League (NFL) as an NFL franchise in 1944. Navy and Air Force are military academies that play American football. They are separate from but affiliated with the NFL. Each year all three services send representatives to compete in their respective leagues with other senior officers. No service can be awarded champions or losers; instead, each service ranks its competitors and selects the team that will play in the annual game. In addition to Army, Navy, and Air Force, other FBS independents include BYU and Notre Dame. BYU is a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) institution that plays American football. It was originally admitted into the Western Intercollegiate Athletic Association before joining the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) in 1892. The Cougars left the PCC after only one season and became an independent school in 1893. In 2015, the LDS Church granted BYU permission to play football again after 80 years away from the sport. Notre Dame is a Catholic university that plays American football.