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This map shows Group of Five teams during the 2025 season. Colors indicate conference membership: The American (blue), CUSA (red), MAC (green), Mountain West (purple), Sun Belt (orange) and Group of Five independent (grey). [j] Included in this map are the two members of the Pac-12 [k] (black).
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 ...
A school from one of the power conferences (including the Pac-12, which was a power conference prior to 2024) won every BCS National Championship Game (which operated from 1999 to 2014), and has won every College Football Playoff National Championship. The remaining five conferences are known as the "Group of Five". [58]
After that Boise State ended the season with four wins in its last five games to make the Mountain West title game. There, Boise State easily beat UNLV for its 15th conference title in school history.
The loss of experience at each of those three schools could open the door for a team like Ohio or Bowling Green. Bowling Green was one of the youngest teams in college football in 2021 but returns ...
1.2 Membership map. 1.3 Future members. ... all dates reflect each school's actual entry into and departure from Conference USA. ... at least one Group of Five ...
The ACC schools are contractually locked up for now, but if the Big Ten is going to try to figure out how to run a 20-team (or more) conference, it would prefer it comes with more financial upside ...
A sports sponsorship rule unique to Division III is that the total number of sports that must be sponsored differs by a school's full-time undergraduate enrollment. Schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or fewer must sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women; those with larger enrollments must sponsor six men's and six women's sports.