List of college athletic conferences

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This is a list of athletic conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

NCAA

Division I-A football

• Atlantic Coast Conference
• Big East Conference
• Big Ten Conference
• Big 12 Conference
• Conference USA
• Mid-American Conference
• Mountain West Conference
• Pacific Ten Conference
• Southeastern Conference
• Sun Belt Conference
• Western Athletic Conference

• NCAA Division I-A independent schools

Division I-AA football

• Atlantic Ten Conference
• *This conference will disband its football section in 2007, when its football members begin play in the Colonial Athletic Association.
• Big Sky Conference
• Big South Conference
• Gateway Football Conference
• Great West Football Conference
• Ivy League
• Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
• Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
• Northeast Conference
• Ohio Valley Conference
• Patriot League
• Pioneer Football League
• Southern Conference
• Southland Conference
• Southwestern Athletic Conference

• NCAA Division I-AA Independent Schools

Division I basketball

Note: All Division I-A and I-AA football conferences are also basketball conferences, with the exception of the Gateway Football Conference, Great West Football Conference, and the Pioneer Football League. This list consists of conferences that do not also sponsor football.

• America East Conference
• Atlantic Sun Conference
• Big West Conference
• Colonial Athletic Association
• *This conference will begin sponsoring Division I-AA football in 2007.
• Horizon League
• Mid-Continent Conference
• Missouri Valley Conference
• West Coast Conference

• NCAA Division I independents (college basketball)

Division I hockey

• Atlantic Hockey
• Central Collegiate Hockey Association
• College Hockey America
• ECAC Hockey League
• Hockey East
• Western Collegiate Hockey Association

• NCAA Division I independents (women's hockey)

Other Division I conferences

• Atlantic Soccer Conference
• American Lacrosse Conference
• Collegiate Water Polo Association
• Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
• Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
• Eastern Wrestling League
• Great Western Lacrosse League
• Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
• Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
• Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference
• Pacific Coast Softball Conference
• United Soccer Conference
• Western Water Polo Association
• Western Wrestling Conference

Defunct conferences

• Big Eight Conference (previously known as Big Six and Big Seven)
• Border Conference (disbanded, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status
• Great Midwest Conference (merged with Metro Conference to form Conference USA)
• Metro Conference (merged with Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA)
• Pacific Coast Athletic Association (still exists as the Big West Conference)
• Pacific Coast Conference (forerunner to today's Pac-10, disbanded in 1959 due to scandal and infighting)
• Southwest Conference (merged with the Big 12 Conference)
• Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference)
• American South Conference (absorbed by Sun Belt Conference)
• Eastern Athletic Association (Eastern 8) (became Atlantic Ten Conference)

Football

• Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Great Lakes Football Conference
• Gulf South Conference
• Lone Star Conference
• Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• North Central Conference
• Northeast Ten Conference
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference
• Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
• South Atlantic Conference
• Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Other Conferences All Football conferences sponsor all other sports

• California Collegiate Athletic Association
• Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference
• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
• Great Northwest Athletic Conference
• Great Lakes Valley Conference
• Heartland Conference
• New York Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Pacific West Conference
• Peach Belt Conference
• Sunshine State Conference

• NCAA Division II independent schools

• Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
• American Southwest Conference
• Atlantic Central Football Conference
• Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference
• Capital Athletic Conference
• Centennial Conference
• City University of New York Athletic Conference
• College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
• Commonwealth Coast Conference
• Empire Eight
• Freedom Football Conference
• Great Northeast Athletic Conference
• Great South Athletic Conference
• Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Illini-Badger Football Conference
• Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Lake Michigan Conference
• Liberty League
• Little East Conference
• MAC Commonwealth League
• MAC Freedom League
• Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
• Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Midwest Conference
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• New England Football Conference
• New England Small College Athletic Conference
• New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
• New Jersey Athletic Conference
• North Atlantic Conference
• North Coast Athletic Conference
• North Eastern Athletic Conference
• Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference
• Northwest Conference
• Ohio Athletic Conference
• Old Dominion Athletic Conference
• Pennsylvania Athletic Conference
• Presidents' Athletic Conference
• Skyline Conference
• Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
• State University of New York Athletic Conference
• St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• University Athletic Association
• Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - Currently transitioning to NCAA Div. III status
• Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association
• USA South Athletic Conference
• Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

• NCAA Division III independent schools

Multi-division conferences

• Eastern College Athletic Conference

Conferences that sponsor football

• Central States Football League - Only sponsors football
• Dakota Athletic Conference
• Frontier Conference
• Great Plains Athletic Conference
• Heart of America Athletic Conference
• Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Mid-South Conference
• Mid-States Football Association - Only sponsors football

Conferences that do not sponsor football

• American Mideast Conference
• American Midwest Conference
• Appalachian Athletic Conference
• California Pacific Conference
• Cascade Collegiate Conference
• Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Florida Sun Conference
• Golden State Athletic Conference
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
• Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Mid-Central College Conference
• Midlands Collegiate Conference
• Midwest Classic Conference
• Red River Athletic Conference
• Sooner Athletic Conference
• Southern States Athletic Conference
• Sunrise Conference
• TranSouth Athletic Conference
• Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference

Other Sports Associations

• Collegiate Sprint Football League
• National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA)
• National Collegiate Baseball Association
• National Collegiate Boxing Association
• National Collegiate Wrestling Association
• *Northwest-teams from Washington and British Columbia
• *West-teams from California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona
• *North Central-teams from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin
• *Southwest-teams from Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Kansas
• *Mid-Atlantic-teams from Tennessee, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware
• *Southeast-teams from Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
• *Northeast-teams from New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Conneticut, Massasschusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• United States College Sports Association

Junior Colleges

• NJCAA
• *Iowa Community College Athletic Conference
• *Montana Dakota Conference
• *Minnesota Community College Conference
• *MidWest Football League
• Others
• *Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC)

 

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