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).
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[edit] NCAA Division I
[edit] Division I-A
- 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
[edit] Division I-A Maps
[edit] Division I-AA
- 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
[edit] Division I (non-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
- United Basketball Conference
- West Coast Conference
- NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball)
[edit] 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 (men's hockey)
- NCAA Division I independents (women's hockey)
[edit] Other Division I Conferences
- Atlantic Soccer Conference
- American Lacrosse Conference
- Collegiate Water Polo Association
- ECAC Lacrosse League
- 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] 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, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status)
- 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)
- 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 into the Big 12 Conference)
- Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference)
[edit] Division II
- California Collegiate Athletic Association
- Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference
- Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- East Coast Conference
- Great Northwest Athletic Conference
- Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Great Lakes Valley Conference
- Great Lakes Football Conference
- Gulf South Conference
- Heartland Conference
- Lone Star Conference
- Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- North Central Conference
- 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 III
- 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
- Landmark 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
[edit] Multi-division conferences
[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] 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
[edit] Other Sports Associations
- Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA)
- Collegiate Sprint Football League
- Central Plains Athletic Conference (CPAC)
- 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, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont
- United States College Sports Association
