List of college athletic conferences
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Division I
Division I-A football
Bowl Championship Series conferences
- Atlantic Coast Conference
- Big Ten Conference
- Big Twelve Conference
- Big East Conference
- Pacific Ten Conference
- Southeastern Conference
Non BCS conferences
- Conference USA
- Mid-American Conference
- Mountain West Conference
- The University of Utah participated in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl by being the only non-BCS team to date to finish in the top 6 of the BCS rankings.
- Sun Belt Conference
- Western Athletic Conference
- NCAA Division I-A Independent Schools
- Notre Dame is an independent in football, but a BCS member. It is a member of the Big East for all other sports sponsored by that conference.
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
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
Division I hockey
- Atlantic Hockey
- Central Collegiate Hockey Association
- College Hockey America
- ECAC Hockey League
- Hockey East
- Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Other Division I conferences
Division II
- California Collegiate Athletic Association
- Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference
- Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- 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
- New York Collegiate Athletic Conference
- 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
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
- Liberty League
- Little East Conference
- MAC Commonwealth League
- MAC Freedom League
- Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
- Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Midwest Conference (original)
- 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
- Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association
- USA South Athletic Conference
- Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Multi-division conferences
Defunct conferences
- Big Six Conference
- Big Seven Conference
- Big Eight 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)
- Southwest Conference
- Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference)