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).

Contents 1 NCAA Division I 1.1 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision 1.1.1 Division I FBS Maps 1.2 Division I Football Championship Subdivision 1.2.1 Division I FCS Maps 1.3 Division I (non-football) 1.3.1 Division I Maps (non-football) 1.4 Division I Hockey 1.4.1 Division I Hockey Maps 1.5 Other Division I Conferences 2 Division II 2.1 Division II Maps 3 Division III 3.1 Division III Maps 4 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - Affiliated Conferences 4.1 Conferences that sponsor football 4.2 Football Conference Maps 4.3 Conferences that do not sponsor football 5 Other Collegiate Sports Associations 5.1 Junior Colleges 6 Defunct Conferences

[edit] NCAA Division I

[edit] Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

Formerly known as Division I-A

• Atlantic Coast Conference
• Big East Conference
• Big Ten Conference
• Big 12 Conference
• Conference USA
• Mid-American Conference
• Mountain West Conference
• Pacific-10 Conference
• Southeastern Conference
• Sun Belt Conference
• Western Athletic Conference
• NCAA Division I-FBS independent schools

[edit] Division I FBS Maps

ACC	Big East	Big Ten	Big 12
C-USA	MAC	Mountain West	Pac-10
SEC	Sun Belt	WAC	Independents

[edit] Division I Football Championship Subdivision

Formerly known as Division I-AA or "One Double A"

• Big Sky Conference
• Big South Conference
• Colonial Athletic Association
• Great West Football Conference
• Ivy League
• Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
• Missouri Valley Football Conference
• Northeast Conference
• Ohio Valley Conference
• Patriot League
• Pioneer Football League
• Southern Conference
• Southland Conference
• Southwestern Athletic Conference
• NCAA Division I-FCS independent schools

[edit] Division I FCS Maps

Big Sky	Big South	CAA	Great West
Ivy	MEAC	Missouri Valley	Northeast
Ohio Valley	Patriot	Pioneer	Southern
Southland	SWAC	Independents

[edit] Division I (non-football)

• America East Conference
• Atlantic Sun Conference
• Atlantic 10 Conference
• Big West Conference
• Horizon League
• Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
• Missouri Valley Conference
• The Summit League
• West Coast Conference
• Independents

[edit] Division I Maps (non-football)

America East	Atlantic Sun	A-10	Big West
Horizon	MAAC	MVC	Summit
WCC	Independents

[edit] Division I Hockey

• Atlantic Hockey
• Central Collegiate Hockey Association
• College Hockey America
• ECAC Hockey
• Hockey East
• Western Collegiate Hockey Association
• NCAA Division I Independents (men's hockey)
• NCAA Division I independent schools (women's hockey)

[edit] Division I Hockey Maps

CCHA	CHA	ECAC Hockey	Hockey East
WCHA	Independents

[edit] Other Division I Conferences

See also List of schools reclassifying their athletic programs to NCAA Division I

• Atlantic Soccer Conference
• American Lacrosse Conference
• Collegiate Water Polo Association
• ECAC Lacrosse League
• Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
• Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League
• 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

[edit] Division II

• California Collegiate Athletic Association
• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
• Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Conference Carolinas
• East Coast Conference
• Great Lakes Football Conference
• Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Great Lakes Valley Conference
• Great Northwest Athletic Conference
• Gulf South Conference
• Heartland Conference
• Lone Star Conference
• Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Northeast Ten Conference
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference
• Pacific West Conference
• Peach Belt Conference
• Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
• South Atlantic Conference
• Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Sunshine State Conference
• West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• NCAA Division II independent schools

[edit] Division II Maps

CCAA	CACC	CIAA	Conference Carolinas
ECC	GLFC	GLIAC	GLVC
GNAC	Gulf South	Heartland	LSC
MIAA	Northeast-10	NSIC	Pac-West
Peach Belt	PSAC	RMAC	South Atlantic
SIAC	SSC	WVIAC	Independents

[edit] Division III

• Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
• American Southwest Conference
• Atlantic Central Football Conference
• Capital Athletic Conference
• Centennial Conference
• City University of New York Athletic Conference
• College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
• Colonial States Athletic Conference
• Commonwealth Coast Conference
• Empire Eight
• Great Northeast Athletic Conference
• Great South Athletic Conference
• Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Landmark Conference
• Liberty League
• Little East Conference
• MAC Commonwealth League
• MAC Freedom League
• Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
• Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Middle Atlantic Corporation
• Midwest Conference
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• New England Collegiate 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 Athletics Conference
• Northwest Conference
• Ohio Athletic Conference
• Old Dominion 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
• USA South Athletic Conference
• Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• NCAA Division III independent schools

[edit] Division III Maps

AMCC	American Southwest	ACFC	Capital Athletic
Centennial	CUNYAC	CCIW	Colonial States
TCCC	Empire 8	GNAC	GSAC
Heartland	Illini-Badger	IIAC	Lake Michigan AC
Landmark	LL	LEC	MAC
MSCAC	MIAA	Midwest	MIAC
NECC	NEFC	NESCAC	NEWMAC
NJAC	NAC	Northern	NCAC
NEAC	Northwest	OAC	ODAC
Presidents'	Skyline	SCIAC	SCAC
SUNYAC	SLIAC	UAA	USA South
WIAC	Independents

[edit] National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - Affiliated Conferences

[edit] 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

[edit] Football Conference Maps

CSFL	DAC	Frontier	GPAC
HAAC	KCAC	MSC	MSFA
Football Independents

[edit] 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
• Florida Sun Conference
• Golden State Athletic Conference
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
• Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Mid-Central College Conference
• Midwest Collegiate Conference
• Red River Athletic Conference
• Sooner Athletic Conference
• Southern States Athletic Conference
• TranSouth Athletic Conference
• Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference

[edit] Other Collegiate Sports Associations

• Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA)
• Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL)
• Central Plains Athletic Conference (CPAC)
• Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
• National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA)
• National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA)
• 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, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA)

[edit] Junior Colleges

• NJCAA
  • Southwest Junior College Football Conference
  • Midwest Football Conference (NJCAA)
  • Illinois N4C Conference
  • Iowa Community College Athletic Conference
  • Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference
  • Western States Football League
  • Minnesota Community College Conference
  • Mississippi CC Athletic Association
  • Northeast JC Football Conference
  • Wisconsin Technical College Conference
  • Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association
  • Michigan Community College Athletic Association
  • Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges
  • Western State Conference

[edit] Defunct Conferences

• American South Conference (absorbed by Sun Belt Conference)
• Big Eight Conference (previously known as Big Six and Big Seven, merged into the Big 12 Conference)
• Border Conference (disbanded in 1962, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status)
• Dixie Conference (the name of three different conferences, the latest of which was the original name of the current Division III USA South Athletic Conference)
• East Coast Conference (Division I) (absorbed by Mid-Continent Conference)
• Eastern Athletic Association (Eastern 8) (became Atlantic Ten Conference)
• Great Midwest Conference (merged with Metro Conference to form Conference USA)
• Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest (from 1892-1893, precursor to the Big Ten Conference)
• Metro Conference (merged with Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA)
• Mountain States Conference aka (Skyline Conference) (disbanded in 1962, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status)
• North State Conference (renamed the Carolinas Conference in 1961, now known as Conference Carolinas)
• Northern California Athletic Conference (Football conference, dissolved in 1996.)
• Pacific Coast Conference (forerunner to today's Pac-10, disbanded in 1959 due to scandal and infighting)
• Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association disbanded 1941
• Southwest Conference (disbanded in 1995, members split into the Big 12 Conference, Western Athletic Conference, and Conference USA)
• Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference)