<Dl> <Dt> Notes </Dt> </Dl> <Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ The conference was founded in 1979 as the original Big East Conference . It renamed itself the American Athletic Conference following a 2013 split along football lines . The non-FBS schools of the original conference left to form a new conference that purchased the Big East name, while the FBS schools continued to operate under the old Big East's charter and structure . The American also inherited the old Big East's Bowl Championship Series berth for the 2013 season, the last for the BCS . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ 11 of the 12 full members sponsor football, with Wichita State as the only non-football member . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the full members, three schools have single - sport associate membership, with two more set to become associates in the near future: <Ul> <Li> Navy is a football - only member . </Li> <Li> Sacramento State and San Diego State are members in women's rowing . </Li> <Li> Florida and Vanderbilt will join in women's lacrosse in the 2019 season (2018--19 school year). </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ 22 sports in 2018 with addition of women's lacrosse . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Notre Dame is a full member except in football, in which it remains independent . It has committed to play five games each season against ACC opponents, and to play each other ACC member at least once every three years . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the full members, two schools have affiliate membership: <Ul> <Li> Johns Hopkins, otherwise a Division III member, is an affiliate in both men's and women's lacrosse, sports in which the school fields Division I teams . </Li> <Li> Notre Dame is a men's hockey affiliate . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the full members, the Big 12 has 12 members that participate in only one sport: <Ul> <Li> Air Force, Fresno State, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Northern Iowa, South Dakota State, Utah Valley, and Wyoming in wrestling . </Li> <Li> Alabama, Old Dominion, and Tennessee in women's rowing . </Li> <Li> Denver in women's gymnastics . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ The conference was founded in 1995, with football competition starting in 1996 . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the 14 full members, Conference USA features three schools that play men's soccer in the conference: Kentucky, New Mexico, and South Carolina . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference . All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ 6 independents in 2018 with addition of Liberty and New Mexico State . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the 12 full members, the Mid-American Conference features nine members which only participate in one sport each, one of which will join in a second sport in 2018, plus one other school that competes in two sports . <Ul> <Li> Appalachian State and Longwood compete in women's field hockey . </Li> <Li> Binghamton competes in men's tennis . </Li> <Li> Evansville and Southern Illinois compete in men's swimming and diving . </Li> <Li> Missouri and Old Dominion compete in wrestling . </Li> <Li> Missouri State competes in field hockey and men's swimming and diving . </Li> <Li> SIU Edwardsville and West Virginia compete in men's soccer . SIUE will also compete in wrestling starting in 2018 . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Since 2012, Hawaiʻi has been a football - only associate member, with most of its remaining teams in the non-football Big West Conference . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the 11 full members and football affiliate Hawaiʻi, Colorado College, a Division III school with a Division I men's ice hockey team, plays Division I women's soccer in the MW . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ The charter of the Pac - 12 dates only to the formation of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959 . However, the Pac - 12 claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which was founded in 1915 and began competition in 1916, as its own . Of the nine members of the PCC at the time of its demise in June 1959, only Idaho never joined the Pac - 12 . The PCC's berth in the Rose Bowl passed to the AAWU . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ The Pac - 12 also includes several associate members which compete in one or two sports in the conference . San Diego State plays men's soccer . Cal State Bakersfield and Cal Poly compete in wrestling . Cal Poly also participates in men's swimming and diving, which the NCAA considers a single sport . UC Santa Barbara only competes in men's swimming and diving . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Ten Sun Belt Conference members currently sponsor football, with Little Rock and UT Arlington as members that do not play football at all . Idaho and New Mexico State are football - only members . <Ul> <Li> Idaho and New Mexico State will leave Sun Belt football after the 2017 season . Idaho has announced it will downgrade to FCS football and add football to its all - sports membership in the Big Sky Conference . New Mexico State tentatively plans to return to FBS independence . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In addition to the full members and football - only affiliates, two other schools--Hartwick (a Division III school with Division I programs in men's soccer and women's water polo) and Howard--are affiliates in men's soccer . </Li> </Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ The conference was founded in 1979 as the original Big East Conference . It renamed itself the American Athletic Conference following a 2013 split along football lines . The non-FBS schools of the original conference left to form a new conference that purchased the Big East name, while the FBS schools continued to operate under the old Big East's charter and structure . The American also inherited the old Big East's Bowl Championship Series berth for the 2013 season, the last for the BCS . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ 11 of the 12 full members sponsor football, with Wichita State as the only non-football member . </Li>

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