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The first post-regular season conference championship game played in Division I-A football (what is now Division I FBS) was the 1992 SEC Championship Game, won by Alabama over Florida. [2] The SEC had gone from being a 10-team conference in 1991, to being a 12-team conference—divided into two six-team divisions—in 1992. [3]
While champions of the top level, the Football Bowl Subdivision, are included in NCAA record books, the NCAA has never awarded an official championship at that level. FBS championships are awarded by non-NCAA bodies, with the current de facto championship, the College Football Playoff, operated by a consortium of FBS conferences.
The power conferences are all part of NCAA Division I, which contains most of the largest and most competitive collegiate athletic programs in the United States, and the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which is the higher of the two levels of college football within NCAA Division I. [3] It is unknown where the term "Power Conference" originated; it is not officially documented by the NCAA ...
College football conference championship games 2024. Each of the nine full FBS conferences — so not including the two-team Pac-12 — will stage a championship game next week.
Conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision must meet a more stringent set of NCAA requirements than other conferences. Among these additional NCAA regulations, institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision must be "multisport conferences" and participate in conference play in at least six men's and eight women's sports, including football, men's and women's basketball, and at least two other ...
The matchups for all nine of the college football conference championships are set. Five of the nine winners will get automatic berths into the 12-team College Football Playoff.
FedExForum had previously hosted eight Conference USA basketball tournaments. Even though the Big East Conference was meant to be a basketball-oriented conference, UConn, a member of The American, won the 2014 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament (the first after the conferences split).
Those in the other 28 conferences fear repercussions of ceding more authority to the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC, multiple non-football playing and FCS executives told Yahoo Sports this week.