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NCAA DIVISION I

Division I-A football

Bowl Championship Series conferences

Atlantic Coast Conference

Big Ten Conference

Big 12 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

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

DIVISION II

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

Southern Conference

Sun Belt Conference

Mid-American Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

Big 12 Conference

Southeastern Conference

DEFUNCT CONFERENCES

Big Eight Conference (previously known as Big Six and Big Seven)

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 (merged with the Big Twelve Conference )

Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference )

American South Conference (absorbed by Sun Belt Conference )

Eastern Athletic Association (Eastern 8) (became Atlantic 10 Conference )

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - AFFILIATED CONFERENCES

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