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This is a list of defunct college football conferences in the United States and a defunct university football conference in Canada. Not all of the conferences listed here are truly defunct. Some simply stopped sponsoring football and continue under their current names, where others changed their names after changes in membership. ==Disbanded conferences== Conferences whose charter no longer functions: *Alabama Collegiate Conference *Alabama Intercollegiate Conference *Alamo Conference *American West Conference (1993–1996) – Two members joined the Big Sky Conference, one joined the Big West Conference while one became independent. *Arkansas Association *Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference *Association of Mideast Colleges *Atlantic Collegiate Football Conference *Badger-Gopher Conference – Also known as the Badger-Illini Conference (1948–1956), Badger State Intercollegiate Conference (1940–1947), and the Tri-State Conference (1932–1939). *Badger-Illini Conference – Later known as the Badger-Gopher Conference (1958–1961) *Badger State Intercollegiate Conference – Later known as the Badger-Gopher Conference (1958–1961) *Big 4 Conference *Big Eight Conference (also called Big Six and Big Seven) (1907–1996) – All eight members, along with four from the Southwest Conference, formed the Big 12 Conference under a separate charter. *Big Four Conference of Wisconsin *Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1931–1962) – Four members joined the new WAC, while three became independent. *Buckeye Athletic Association *California Coast Conference *Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union *Central Church College Conference *Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference *Central States Intercollegiate Conference *Chesapeake Conference *Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Conference *Colorado Football Association *Columbia Football Association, divided between the Mount Rainier and Mount Hood Leagues from 1987 to 1995. *Columbia Football League *Dakota Athletic Conference *Dakota-Iowa Athletic Conference *Dixie Conference (1930–1941) – An offshoot of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (see below). *Dixie Conference (1948–1954) – The second conference to bear the name was an attempt at a "purely amateur" conference without scholarships. It disbanded after six years, due largely to a lack of top-to-bottom competitiveness. *Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (1990–1997) *Eastern Football Conference (1965–1974) – A conference in existence in the Connecticut area from 1965 to 1974 *Eastern Football Conference (1997–2000) – A conference in the Northeast region from 1997 to 2000. *Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (1953–1959) – A conference of HBCU's in the Mid-Atlantic region. A separate entity from the basketball-centric Eastern Intercollegiate Conference and Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League. *Eastern Pennsylvania Conference – College football conference in Pennsylvania from 1937 to 1940 and separate entity from the present-day high school sports league called the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference *Evergreen Conference – Also known as the Washington Intercollegiate Conference from 1938 to 1947. *Freedom Football Conference (1992–2003) – Members split between the Empire Eight, New England Football Conference, New Jersey Athletic Conference, and the Liberty League. *Frontier Conference – This was the name of a conference in New Mexico in existence from 1940 to 1962 and should not be confused with the modern Frontier Conference in the NAIA. This conference was also known as the New Mexico Intercollegiate Conference from 1940 to 1954. *Gateway Conference (1962–1974) – A small-college conference made up of schools in Illinois and Wisconsin. Not to be confused with the Gateway Football Conference that is the direct predecessor of today's Missouri Valley Football Conference. *Great Lakes Football Conference (2006–2012) – A Division II football-only conference that played its final season in 2011, the GLFC was effectively absorbed by the all-sports Great Lakes Valley Conference, which added football in 2012. All of the GLFC's final members became either full or football-only members of the GLVC. *Great Plains College Association *Great West Conference (2004–2013) – Founded as the Great West Football Conference in 2004, it changed its name in 2008 when it began sponsoring other sports. The 2010–13 realignment cycle first caused the conference to lose all of its football members, leading it to drop the sport after the 2011 season. Further realignment led to the league's demise after the 2012–13 school year. *Green Mountain Conference *Gulf Coast Conference *Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (1958–1961) *Gulf Star Conference (1984-1987) - A Division I all-sports loop. All six teams eventually joined the Southland Conference, and five of them remain in the Southland in 2013. *Gulf States Conference *Hawkeye College Conference *Heartland Collegiate Conference – Also known as the Indiana Collegiate Conference from 1951 to 1977. *Hoosier-Buckeye Conference – Chartered and known as the Hoosier Conference from 1948 to 1970. *Illini-Badger Football Conference – Also known as the Illini-Badger-Hawkeye Football Conference from 1989 to 1990. *Illinois Intercollege Conference *Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Also known as the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1950 to 1970. *Illinois Intercollegiate Football League *Independent College Athletic Conference *Indiana College Athletic League *Indiana Collegiate Conference *Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Indiana Intercollegiate Conference *Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest (1892–1893) – Disbanded due to financial difficulties; its four schools became charter members of what is now the Big Ten Conference in 1896. *Intercollegiate Football Association *Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference – The conference existed from 1890 to 1927, and was also known as the Kansas College Athletic Conference and the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Association from 1890 to 1901. *Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Liberty Football Conference *Little Five Conference *Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference *Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association *Mason-Dixon Conference *Met-Intercollegiate Conference *Metropolitan Collegiate Conference *Metropolitan Conference (1923–1931) *Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference *Michigan Collegiate Conference *Michigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference *Mid-Continent Athletic Association (1978–1981) – A football-only conference, it competed in Division II from 1978 to 1980, and Division I-AA in its final season as a standalone conference in 1981. The following year, the MCAA would be absorbed by the newly founded Association of Mid-Continent Universities (see "Existing conferences that dropped football"), an all-sports conference. *Mid-Ohio Conference *Mid-South Athletic Conference *Middle Atlantic Athletic Association *Middle States Intercollegiate Football League *Middle States League *Middle Three Conference *Midlands Conference *Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference – Also known as the Midwest Intercollegiate Conference in 1990. *Midwest Athletic Association – A black college conference, also known as the Midwest Conference (1962–1963) and the Midwestern Conference (1964–1966). *Midwestern Conference *Mississippi Valley Conference *Missouri College Athletic Union *Mountain States Conference (1938–1963) – Though officially named the Mountain States Conference for its entire existence, the conference was better known to the public as the ''Skyline Conference'' (not to be confused with the modern Skyline Conference, a group of schools in the New York City area). Four of its members formed the WAC and would later become charter members of the Mountain West Conference, while the remaining three became independent. *Mountain West Athletic Conference (1982–1988) – Women's sports only, merged into Big Sky Conference in 1988. *Nebraska College Athletic Conference – Also known as the Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference from 1916 to 1926. *Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association *New York State Conference (1925-1934) *North Atlantic Conference (1946) – A black college conference and separate entity from the present-day North Atlantic Conference. *North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Also known as the North Central Intercollegiate Conference from 1922 to 1929. *North Dakota College Athletic Conference – Also known as the North Dakota Intercollegiate Conference. *Northern California Athletic Conference – Also known as the Far Western Conference from 1925 to 1981. *Northwestern Ohio Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Also known as the Little Ohio Conference. *Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference *Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914–1928) *Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1974–1996) *Oregon Collegiate Conference *Oregon Intercollegiate Conference *Pacific Coast Conference (1915–1959) – Claimed by today's Pac-12 as part of its history, but the PCC had a separate charter. All PCC members at the time of its demise except Idaho are now Pac-12 members. *Pacific Northwest Conference (1908–1925) - Originally University of Idaho, University of Oregon, Whitman College, Oregon Agricultural College (Oregon State University), University of Washington, Washington State College (University). Later members included University of Montana, Willamette University, Pacific University, Gonzaga University. Pacific Coast Conference member schools maintained dual membership in PCC and PNC. Circa 1925, the six PCC schools left and the remaining active PNC schools formed the Northwest Conference. *Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Football Association *Pioneer Conference *Prairie College Conference (1953–1967) *Prairie College Conference (1988) *Smoky Mountain Conference *South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association *South Carolina Little Three – Also known as the South Carolina Little Four from 1946 to 1951. *South Central Athletic Conference – A black college conference. *South Dakota College Conference *South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference – Also known as the South Dakota-Iowa Athletic Conference from 1995 to 1999. *Southeastern Athletic Conference – A black college conference, also known as the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1929–1942), but distinct from the conference of the same name that disbanded in 1921. *Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Southwest Conference (1914–1996) – Due to fallout from numerous recruiting scandals throughout the 1980s, most notoriously at SMU, the conference went into terminal decline. * *Arkansas started the process, announcing it would leave the SWC for the Southeastern Conference effective in 1991, leaving the conference with eight teams in Texas. * *Four members—Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech—joined with the Big 8 in 1994, forming the Big 12 under a new charter. Texas A&M has since moved to the Southeastern Conference. * *Houston became a charter member of Conference USA (C-USA) in 1995. It moved to the American Athletic Conference in 2013. * *Rice, SMU, and TCU joined the WAC. TCU left the WAC in 2001 to join C-USA, and moved again to the Mountain West Conference in 2005. At the same time TCU departed for the MWC, Rice and SMU rejoined Houston in C-USA. During the 2010–13 realignment cycle, TCU initially accepted an invitation to the Big East effective in July 2012, but never joined that conference, instead accepting an offer from the Big 12. SMU joined the AAC (the football-sponsoring portion and legal successor of the former Big East) in 2013. *Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference *Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association *Tri-Normal League *Tri-State Athletic Conference *Tri-State Conference (1960–1978) – In existence in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota from 1960 to 1978 *Tri-State Conference (1932–1934) – In existence in Pennsylvania and West Virginia from 1932 to 1934 *Tri-State Conference (1932–1939) – An early name of the Badger-Gopher Conference *Triangular Football League – Also known as the Northeast Intercollegiate League from 1891 to 1892, the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association from 1887 to 1890, and the Northern Intercollegiate Football Association from 1885 to 1886. *Twin River Collegiate Conference *Upper Peninsula Conference *Upstate Collegiate Athletic Conference *Vermont State Conference *Virginia / North Carolina Athletic Conference *Virginia Collegiate Athletic Association *Virginia Conference *Virginia Little Eight Conference – Also known as the Virginia Little Seven Conference from 1954 to 1955 and the Virginia Little Six Conference from 1949 to 1953. *Volunteer State Athletic Conference *West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Disbanded in 2013 after its nine football-playing schools announced they would break away to form a new conference. Ultimately, eight of these schools became charter members of the Mountain East Conference, along with three other football-playing schools and one non-football WVIAC member. *Western Football Conference – Also known as the Western Football League from 1987 to 1990. *Western Interstate Conference *Western Interstate University Football Association *Western New York Little Three Conference *Western Pennsylvania Conference *Wisconsin State University Conference (1913–1997) – This was a men's-only conference that merged with a parallel women's-only conference, with identical membership, to become today's Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of defunct college football conferences」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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