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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NCAA Division I
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
Division I FBS Maps
Division I Football Championship Subdivision
Formerly known as Division I-AA or "One Double A"
- Big Sky Conference
- Big South Conference
- Colonial Athletic Association
- Gateway Football Conference
- Great West Football Conference
- Ivy League
- Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
- Northeast Conference
- Ohio Valley Conference
- Patriot League
- Pioneer Football League
- Southern Conference
- Southland Conference
- Southwestern Athletic Conference
- NCAA Division I-FCS independent schools
Division I FCS Maps
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
Division I Maps (non-football)
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)
Division I Hockey Maps
Other Division I Conferences
- 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
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
- 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
Division II Maps
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
- Commonwealth Coast Conference
- Empire Eight
- Great Northeast Athletic Conference
- Great South Athletic Conference
- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
- Illini-Badger Football 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 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
- 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 - Transitioning to NCAA Div. III status, 2008 they will become a full Div. III Conference
- USA South Athletic Conference
- Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- NCAA Division III independent schools
Division III Maps
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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
Football Conference Maps
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 Classic Conference
- Red River Athletic Conference
- Sooner Athletic Conference
- Southern States Athletic Conference
- TranSouth Athletic Conference
- Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
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)
Junior Colleges
- NJCAA
- Southwest Junior College Football Conference
- Midwest Football Conference
- Illinois N4C Conference
- Iowa JUCO 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
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)
- 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)
- 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)
