List of college athletic conferences

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

NCAA Division I

Division I-A football

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

NCAA Division I independents (women's hockey)

Other Division I conferences

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)

Division II

Football

Other Conferences All Football conferences sponsor all other sports

NCAA Division II independent schools

Division III

NCAA Division III independent schools

Multi-division conferences

Eastern College Athletic Conference

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - affiliated conferences

Conferences that do not sponsor football

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

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