List of defunct college football conferences
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This is a list of defunct college football conferences in the United States. Not all of the conferences listed here are truly defunct. Some simply stopped sponsoring football and continue under their current names; others changed their names after minor changes in membership.
- Big Eight Conference (also called Big Six and Big Seven)
- Absorbed four members from the Southwest Conference to form today's Big 12.
- Big West Conference
- Still exists as an all-sports conference, but without football.
- Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Freedom Football Conference
- Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Still exists as an all-sports conference, but without football.
- Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- This conference became the Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference.
- Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference
- Now the Great Plains Athletic Conference.
- Pacific Coast Athletic Association
- Now the Big West Conference.
- Pacific Coast Conference
- Claimed by today's Pac 10 as part of its history, but had a completely separate charter.
- Skyline Conference (Western U.S.)
- Not to be confused with the modern Skyline Conference, a group of schools in the New York City area.
- Southwest Conference
- Wisconsin State University Conference
- 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.
- Yankee Conference
- Absorbed by the Atlantic 10; in 2007, most of the former Yankee Conference members will transfer to the Colonial Athletic Association for football.
