Conferences in College Football

College Football unlike the NFL is split into many different conferences and divisions. The split of  divisions is basically based of skill level of the team and its size, it goes from Division 1, Division 2, and Division 3. These 3 division all play the same game they just have more skilled players then the other starting in division 1 and going down. I will mostly be focusing on division 1 football in this blog.

In division 1 football everything is different, from the size of the school to the intensity during the games, to the length of travel between games and being on national television. In college football there are 128 college football teams playing in the division 1 section. Of those 128 teams there are 11 conferences that have been  split  up based of region and where they are located?

The 11 Conferences are the

1.     Atlantic Coast (ACC)
2.   Big 12 
3. Big East 
4. Big Ten 
5. PAC 12
6. South Eastern  (SEC)
7. Conference USA
8.  Mid- Atlantic (MAC)
9. Mountain West 
10. Sun Belt 
11. Western Athletic (WAC)

 These Conferences hold some of the most gifted athletes in college sports. Some ready to go on and play at the professional level after just one year in college. Based on my opinion I think the most powerful conference in College football is the SEC. They have the most competitive teams, they have won seven National championships since 1990. It is mostly  known as the Power house in  college football including teams like Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Ole Miss, South Carolina, and many others.

In the 11 conferences the amount of teams vary based on where they are located, there can be 4 teams in a conference or can be 12 teams in a conference it honestly depends on where they are . But just because of where they are located and the  name of their conference has nothing to do with how good the team is.

With these conferences there is a championship at the end of the season. The teams that play in these championships are determined throughout the season based on how their record is in the conference as well as out of the conference. Which then determines who will play against each other at the end in a head to head game. These conference games are usually very important because they later on give the winner of the game a chance to play in a bowl game in the end of the season against someone else basically for another bowl championship.

The college football season lives of these conferences which make everything more exciting because when it comes to colleges in the same area who are placed in the same conference they result in huge rivalries. One of the most talked about rivalries in college football comes from the SEC, when Alabama plays Auburn towards the end of the season. It’s called the Iron Bowl, this game never seems to disappoint

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