College Football Conferences 2026
11 conferences, 138 teams, every one of them listed below. FBS is the top division of college football — below it are FCS, Division II and Division III — and these are the leagues inside it, ordered strongest first by their members' average SP+ rating.
Compare the conferencesEvery team drawn as a dot, so the overlap between leagues is visible — not a bar chart of averages.→SEC standings →16 teams · avg SP+ +16.5
Big Ten standings →18 teams · avg SP+ +11.7
FBS Independents standings →2 teams · avg SP+ +10.3
Big 12 standings →16 teams · avg SP+ +7.5
ACC standings →17 teams · avg SP+ +5.5
Pac-12 standings →8 teams · avg SP+ -4.6
American Athletic standings →14 teams · avg SP+ -6.6
Mountain West standings →10 teams · avg SP+ -7.7
Sun Belt standings →14 teams · avg SP+ -11.7
Conference USA standings →10 teams · avg SP+ -13.7
Mid-American standings →13 teams · avg SP+ -16.8