2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season
Conference realignment -- Membership changes
Table:
School

Former conference

New conference

Fresno State

WAC

Mountain West

Hawaii

WAC

Mountain West

Massachusetts

CAA (FCS)

MAC

Missouri

Big 12

SEC

Nevada

WAC

Mountain West

South Alabama

FCS Independent

Sun Belt

TCU

Mountain West

Big 12

Temple

MAC

Big East

Texas A&M

Big 12

SEC

Texas State

Southland (FCS)

WAC

UTSA

FCS Independent

WAC

West Virginia

Big East

Big 12

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The Fresno State Bulldogs football team represents California State University , Fresno in NCAA Division I FBS college football as a member of the Mountain West Conference . The green V on the Bulldogs ' helmets , uniforms , field symbolize California Central Valley , specifically the San Joaquin Valley , the agricultural valley from which they draw their support . Jeff Tedford was the head coach from 2017 to 2019 .
The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) is an American collegiate athletic conference formed on July 27 , 1962 , and affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I . The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States , with member institutions located in Arizona , California , New Mexico , Utah , and Washington , along with the non-western states of Missouri and Illinois ( traditionally associated with the Midwest ) , as well as Texas ( traditionally associated with the Southwest ) . Due to most of the conference 's football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations , the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012-13 season and left the NCAA 's Football Bowl Subdivision ( formerly known as Division I-A ) . The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000 . The WAC then added men 's soccer and became one of the NCAA 's eleven Division I non-football conferences .
The Mountain West Conference ( MW ) is one of the collegiate athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) ( formerly I-A ) . The MW officially began operations in July 1999 . Geographically , the MW covers a broad expanse of the Western United States , with member schools located in California , Colorado , Hawaii , Idaho , Nevada , New Mexico , Utah , and Wyoming . Craig Thompson has served as Commissioner of the MW since its founding in 1999 . The charter members of the MW included the United States Air Force Academy , Brigham Young University , Colorado State University , San Diego State University , the University of New Mexico , the University of Nevada , Las Vegas , the University of Utah , and the University of Wyoming . Before forming the Mountain West Conference , seven of its eight charter members had been longtime members of the Western Athletic Conference , and half of these had been charter members of that conference from 1962 . Overall , each school that has ever been either a full or football-only member of the MW spent at least three years in the WAC before joining the Mountain West .
The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represents the University of Hawaii at Manoa in NCAA Division I FBS college football . It was part of the Western Athletic Conference until July 2012 , when the team joined the Mountain West Conference . From 2000 until July 1 , 2013 , the football team was renamed to simply Warriors , until a 2013 decision to standardize all of the school 's athletic team names took effect , and the team was once again known as the Rainbow Warriors . The Hawaiʻi Warriors were the third team from a non automatic qualifier conference to play in a BCS bowl game . They played Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on January 1 , 2008 in New Orleans , and lost 41-10 .
The UMass Minutemen football team represents the University of Massachusetts in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) . Massachusetts is the fourth oldest program currently in FBS . The Minutemen currently compete as an FBS independent . UMass began play in 1879 and have since appeared in three FCS National Championship games , winning the title in 1998 . The Minutemen began a two-year Football Bowl Subdivision transition period in 2011 , becoming bowl eligible in 2013 . In March 2014 , the Mid-American Conference and UMass announced an agreement for the Minutemen to leave the conference after the 2015 season due to UMass declining an offer to become a full member of the conference . In the agreement between the MAC and the university , there was a contractual clause that had UMass playing in the MAC as a football-only member for two more seasons if UMass declined a full membership offer . UMass announced that it would look for a more suitable conference for the team . Possibilities included becoming independent or joining the American Athletic Conference , Conference USA , or the Sun Belt Conference . In September 2014 , UMass announced that they would become independent beginning with the 2016 season . The Minutemen have subsequently played as an independent through the 2019 season . As of late December 2019 [ update ] , the program 's 12-game schedules through the 2022 season are fixed , 10 of 12 games are fixed for both 2023 and 2024 , and at least three games per season are fixed out to 2028 .
The Colonial Athletic Association ( CAA ) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA 's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina . Most of its members are public universities , and the conference is headquartered in Richmond . The CAA was historically a Southern conference until the addition of four schools in the Northeast ( of five that joined from rival conference America East ) after the turn of the 21st century , which added balance to the conference . The CAA was founded in 1979 as the ECAC South basketball league . It was renamed the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985 when it added championships in other sports ( although a number of members maintain ECAC affiliation in some sports ) . As of 2006 , it organizes championships in 21 men 's and women 's sports . The addition of Northeastern University in 2005 gave the conference the NCAA minimum of six football programs needed to sponsor football . For the 2007 football season , all of the Atlantic 10 Conference 's football programs joined the CAA football conference , as agreed in May 2005 .
The Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois . Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan , with single members located in Illinois , Indiana , and New York . For football , the MAC participates in the NCAA 's Football Bowl Subdivision . The MAC is headquartered in the Public Square district in downtown Cleveland , Ohio , and has two members in the nearby Akron area . The MAC has been referred to as the Conference of Quarterbacks because of the accomplishments of numerous former players in the National Football League . The conference also ranks highest among all ten NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates .
The Missouri Tigers football program represents the University of Missouri ( often referred to as Mizzou ) in college football and competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) . Missouri 's football program dates back to 1890 , and has appeared in 33 bowl games ( including 10 major bowl appearances : 4 Orange Bowls , 3 Cotton Bowls , 2 Sugar Bowls , and 1 Fiesta Bowl ) . Missouri has won 15 conference titles , 5 division titles , and has 2 national championship selections recognized by the NCAA . Entering the 2017 season , Missouri 's all-time record is 671-556-52 ( .545 ) . Since 2012 , Missouri has been a member of the Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) and competes in the Eastern Division . Home games are played at Faurot Field ( The Zou ) in Columbia , Missouri . The team was coached by Gary Pinkel ( 2001-2015 ) , who has the highest winning percentage of any coach in Missouri football history ( setting that mark with his 102nd win at the AT & T Cotton Bowl on January 3 , 2014 ) . Pinkel 's record with Mizzou after his final game on November 27 , 2015 , is 118-73 ( .618 ) .
The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving , Texas . The conference consists of ten full-member universities . It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) for all sports . Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ) , the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition . Its ten members , in the states of Iowa , Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas , and West Virginia , include eight public and two private , Christian schools . Additionally , the Big 12 has 11 affiliate members - eight for the sport of wrestling , one of which is also a member in women 's equestrianism ; one for women 's gymnastics ; and two for women 's rowing . The Big 12 Conference is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware . The Big 12 Conference was founded on February 25 , 1994 . The eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with Southwest Conference schools Texas , Texas A & M , Baylor , and Texas Tech to form the new Big 12 Conference , which commenced competition on August 31 , 1996 . The conference 's current 10-campus makeup resulted from the 2010-13 Big 12 Conference realignment , in which Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference , Colorado joined the Pac-12 , and Missouri and Texas A & M joined the Southeastern Conference . TCU and West Virginia joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing schools , bringing the conference to its current strength . The Big 12 Conference , like others involved in the realignment , has kept its name primarily for marketing purposes ; the conference has high name recognition and remains one of the Power Five conferences which are considered the primary contenders to produce a College Football Playoff champion team in any given year .
The Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States . Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states , three additional public land grant universities , and one private research university . The conference is headquartered in Birmingham , Alabama . The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I in sports competitions ; for football , it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) , formerly known as Division I-A . The SEC is regarded as one of the most accomplished sports conferences in terms of its winning reputation , with 43 national football championships , 21 basketball championships , 41 indoor track championships , 42 outdoor track championships , 24 swimming championships , 20 gymnastics championships , and 13 College World Series . The conference is also highly successful financially , as it consistently leads most others in revenue distribution to its members , including an SEC record $ 455.8 million for the 2014-15 fiscal year , which was a sizable increase over the $ 292.8 million for the 2013-14 fiscal year , largely due to the revenue from the introduction of the SEC Network . The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game ( and award a subsequent title ) for college football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) . The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey . The conference sponsors team championships in nine men 's sports and twelve women 's sports .
The Nevada Wolf Pack football program represents the University of Nevada , Reno ( commonly referred to as Nevada in athletics ) in college football . The Wolf Pack competes in the Mountain West Conference at the Football Bowl Subdivision level of the NCAA Division I . It was founded on October 24 , 1896 as the Sagebrushers in Reno , Nevada . The Wolf Pack 's home field is Mackay Stadium , located at the north end of its campus in Reno , having been moved from it original location which opened in 1909 . The new Mackay Stadium saw its first game 54 years ago on October 1 , 1966 with a seating capacity of 7,500 and has undergone several renovations . The stadium currently seats 30,000 and has played to crowds in excess ( see attendance records ) , but decreased its capacity to 26,000 by the 2016 season to increase the quality of the experience in the stadium and later increased its capacity to 27,000 by the 2017 season and 30,000 by the 2018 season . The elevation of its playing field is 4,610 feet ( 1,410 m ) above sea level . Nevada has had three individuals inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame . They are coach Chris Ault , running back Frank Hawkins ( 1977-80 ) and former coach Buck Shaw . Fullback Marion Motley is the only Nevada player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame . Three-time Super Bowl champion Charles Mann played for Nevada from 1979 to 1982 and was named Most Valuable Defensive Lineman in 1982 . Mann was inducted into the Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995 .
The South Alabama Jaguars football program , established in 2009 , represents the University of South Alabama in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Since joining FBS in 2012 , South Alabama has never won more than six games .
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions in the United States whose football programs are not part of a football conference . This means that FCS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition as conference schools do . As of the next college football season of 2020 , three schools will play as FCS independents . Presbyterian will spend only the 2020 season as an independent . It began a transition to non-scholarship FCS football in 2017 and will play the final season of that transition as an FCS independent before joining the Pioneer Football League in 2021 . ( Presbyterian will remain a full but non-football Big South member . ) Also in 2020 , Dixie State and Tarleton State will move up from Division II , with both joining the non-football Western Athletic Conference . Both schools have announced they will play as FCS independents for the foreseeable future . The only school that had played as an FCS independent in the most recently completed 2019 season , North Dakota , will join the Missouri Valley Football Conference in July 2020 . The Fighting Hawks left the Big Sky Conference for the non-football Summit League in July 2018 , but agreed to honor existing contracts to play Big Sky members in football , and thus played a full Big Sky football schedule in both 2018 and 2019 .
The Sun Belt Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA 's Division I since 1976 . Originally a non-football conference , the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001 . Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) . The 12 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed primarily across the southern United States .
The TCU Horned Frogs football team is the intercollegiate football team of Texas Christian University ( TCU ) . The Horned Frogs compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) , the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) in the United States . Since 2012 , the Horned Frogs have been a member of the Big 12 Conference , and were previously members of the Mountain West Conference ( MWC ) , Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) , Conference USA ( C-USA ) , Southwest Conference ( SWC ) , and Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( TIAA ) . TCU began playing football in 1896 and claims national championships in 1935 and 1938 . TCU has one Heisman Trophy winner , Davey O'Brien , and has had eight former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame . The Horned Frogs play their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium , which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth . TCU ranks as the 4th best private college football school of all time , behind Notre Dame , USC , and Miami-FL . The Horned Frogs are also one of only four FBS teams to have played in all six College Football Playoff Bowls , winning all but the Fiesta and Orange . In 2017 , TCU and Coach Patterson reached their 10th 11-win season since Gary Patterson has been coaching for the program . That is the 4th most 11 win seasons since 2001 in all of college football .
The Temple Owls football team represents Temple University in the sport of college football . The Temple Owls compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the American Athletic Conference ( The American ) . They play their home games at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The Owls were a football-only member of the Big East Conference from 1991 until 2004 . Temple was expelled from the league due to a lack of commitment to the football program from university officials . Temple played the 2005 and 2006 seasons as an independent before playing in the Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) from 2007 to 2011 . In March 2012 , the Owls rejoined the Big East Conference , with football membership beginning in the 2012 season and all other sports beginning conference play in 2013 . That same year , the conference was renamed the American Athletic Conference after several basketball-only schools split off to form a new conference that kept the Big East name . Temple is the last original Big East football member still in the American Athletic Conference .
The Big East Conference was a collegiate athletics conference that consisted of as many as 16 universities in the eastern half of the United States from 1979 to 2013 . The conference 's members participated in 24 NCAA sports . The conference had a history of success at the national level in basketball throughout its history , while its shorter ( 1991 to 2013 ) football program , created by inviting one college and four other associate members ( their football programs only ) into the conference , resulted in two national championships . In basketball , Big East teams made 18 Final Four appearances and won seven NCAA Championships ( UConn with three , Villanova , Georgetown , Syracuse , and Louisville with one each ) . Of the Big East 's full members , all but South Florida attended the Final Four , the most of any conference , though Marquette , DePaul , Notre Dame , Rutgers , Cincinnati , and Pittsburgh made all their trips before joining the Big East . In 2011 , the Big East set the record for the most teams sent to the NCAA Division I Men 's Basketball Championship by a single conference with eleven out of their sixteen teams qualifying . In football , the Big East entered competition as a conference in 1991 , after inviting five football colleges to become members of the Big East , joining three teams from the Big East whose football teams were competing as Division I independents ( Boston College , Pittsburgh and Syracuse ) to form a new Division I football league . The strength of this league earned the Big East an automatic berth in the Bowl Championship Series , when that series was created in 1998 . The Big East won two national football championships , both by University of Miami . Between 2005 and 2012 , four of the more successful football schools left the Big East for other conferences , starting a process that led to a complete realignment of the Big East in 2013 . On July 1 , 2013 , the non-football playing schools ( also known collectively as the secular Catholic 7 ) formed a non-football playing conference that retains the Big East Conference name . The remaining six football-playing members , three of whom had only joined the Big East in 2005 when the earlier exodus had started , joined with four schools from other conferences to become the American Athletic Conference ( The American ) , which is the Big East 's legal successor .
The Texas A & M Aggies football program represents Texas A & M University in the sport of American football . The Aggies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) . Texas A & M football claims three national titles and eighteen conference titles . The team plays all home games at the newly redeveloped Kyle Field , a 102,733-person capacity outdoor stadium on the university campus . Jimbo Fisher is currently the team 's head coach .
The Texas State Bobcats football program is an NCAA Division I-FBS college football team that represents Texas State University . They currently play in the Sun Belt Conference . The program began in 1904 and has an overall winning record . The program has a total of fourteen conference titles , nine of them being outright conference titles . Home games are played at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos , Texas . Given that the school has grown to become the fifth-largest university in Texas , and one of the 75 largest universities in the United States , it has now taken its football program to the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA football . The team became a member of the FBS Western Athletic Conference in 2012 . After only one season in the WAC , Texas State moved to the Sun Belt Conference . Texas State joined the league in July 2013 and began conference play for the 2013-14 academic year .
The Southland Conference , abbreviated to SLC , is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States ( specifically Texas , Louisiana , and Arkansas ) . It participates in the NCAA 's Division I for all sports ; for football , it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) . The Southland sponsors 18 sports , 10 for women and eight for men , and is governed by a presidential Board of Directors and an Advisory Council of athletic and academic administrators . Tom Burnett was named the Southland 's sixth commissioner on Dec. 23 , 2002 . From 1996 to 2002 , for football only , the Southland Conference was known as the Southland Football League . The conference 's offices are located in the Dallas suburb of Frisco , Texas .
The UTSA Roadrunners football program represents University of Texas at San Antonio ( UTSA ) in the sport of American football . The Roadrunners compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the West Division of Conference USA ( CUSA ) . They are coached by Jeff Traylor , who started in 2020 . The Roadrunners play their home games at the Alamodome which has a seating capacity of 65,000 .
The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University ( also referred to as WVU or West Virginia ) in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of college football . West Virginia plays its home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown , West Virginia . The Mountaineers compete in the Big 12 Conference . With a 752-495-45 record as of the conclusion of the 2018 season , WVU ranks 14th in victories among NCAA FBS programs , and has the most victories among those programs that never claimed nor won a national championship . West Virginia was originally classified as a College Division school in the 1937 season , and joined the University Division , forerunner of Division I , in 1939 . It has been a member of Division I FBS since 1978 ( known as Division I-A until 2006 ) . The Mountaineers have registered 82 winning seasons in their history , including one unbeaten season ( 10-0-1 ) in 1922 and nine seasons with at least ten wins ( 1922 , 1969 , 1988 , 1993 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2011 , 2016 ) . The Mountaineers have won or shared a total of 15 conference championships , including eight Southern Conference titles and seven Big East Conference titles .