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11 College Football Conferences and Their 120 Teams

Football Bowl Series (Formerly Division I-A)

2012-2013 College Football Conferences

Atlantic Coast (ACC)
Big 12
Big East
Big Ten
Pac 12
Southeastern (SEC)

Conference USA
Mid-American (MAC)
Mountain West
Sun Belt
Western Athletic (WAC)
Independent FBS Teams

Atlantic Coast (ACC)	Boston College	Clemson	Duke	Florida State	Georgia Tech	Maryland
Atlantic Coast (ACC)	Miami	North Carolina	North Carolina State	Virginia	Virginia Tech	Wake Forest
Big 12	Baylor	Iowa State	Kansas	Kansas State	Oklahoma
Big 12	Oklahoma State	TCU	Texas	Texas Tech	West Virginia
Big East	Cincinnati	Connecticut	Louisville	Pittsburgh
Big East	Rutgers	South Florida	Syracuse	Temple
Big Ten	Illinois	Indiana	Iowa	Michigan	Michigan State	Minnesota
Big Ten	Nebraska	Northwestern	Ohio State	Penn State	Purdue	Wisconsin
Conference USA	East Carolina	Houston	Marshall	Memphis	Rice	Southern Methodist
Conference USA	Southern Miss	Tulane	Tulsa	UAB	UCF	UTEP
Mid-American (MAC)	Akron	Ball State	Bowling Green	Buffalo	Central Michigan	Eastern Michigan
	Kent State	Massachusetts	Miami (OH)	Northern Illinois	Ohio	Toledo
	Western Michigan
Mountain West	Air Force	Boise State	Colorado State	Fresno State	Hawaii
Mountain West	Nevada	New Mexico	San Diego State	UNLV	Wyoming
Pac 12	Arizona	Arizona State	California	Colorado	Oregon	Oregon State
Pac 12	Stanford	UCLA	USC	Utah	Washington	Washington State
Southeastern (SEC)	Alabama	Arkansas	Auburn	Florida	Georgia	Kentucky
	LSU	Mississippi	Mississippi State	Missouri	South Carolina	Tennessee
	Texas A&M	Vanderbilt
Sun Belt	Arkansas State	FIU	Florida Atlantic	Louisiana-Lafayette	Louisiana-Monroe
Sun Belt	Middle Tennessee	North Texas	South Alabama	Troy	Western Kentucky
Western Athletic (WAC)	Idaho	Louisiana Tech	New Mexico State	San Jose State
Western Athletic (WAC)	Texas State	Utah State	UTSA

Independents Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Teams
	Army	Brigham Young	Navy	Notre Dame

Upcoming Changes

ACC

Pitt and Syracuse will each pay the Big East a $7.5 million exit fee to leave on July 1, 2013 to join the ACC

Notre Dame will join the ACC for all sports except football, but the date of the realignment is unknown as of Sep. 12, 2012
Big East

Boise State and San Diego State will move from the Mountain West Conference to the Big East in 2013 for football only

Houston, Southern Methodist University, Memphis, and Central Florida will move from Conference USA to the Big East in all sports in 2013

Navy will join Big East in 2015 for football only

Conference USA

Florida International, Louisiana Tech, North Texas and UT-San Antonio are joining Conference USA in 2013 in all sports

Old Dominion leaving Colonial Athletic Association to joing Conference USA in 2013

Charlotte is joining Conference USA for football in 2015 (all other sports in 2013)

Mountain West

Utah State and San Jose State will leave WAC to join Mountain West in July 2013

Sun Belt

Texas State (leaving WAC) and Georgia State (leaving Colonial Athletic Association) will join in July 2013