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Egg Bowl
Egg Bowl: annual Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State football game, officially the Battle for the Golden Egg. First played 1901; trophy created 1927 after a fan brawl; named by the Clarion-Ledger in 1978; Ole Miss leads the series.
Emporia State Hornets
The Emporia State Hornets are the NCAA Division II athletics program of Emporia State University in Kansas, whose Lady Hornets won the 2010 women's basketball title.
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl: annual NCAA FBS college football bowl game founded 1971 in Tempe, Arizona, now played in Glendale; New Year's Six member and rotating CFP semifinal host; 55 games through 2026.
Florida State Seminoles
Florida State Seminoles, FSU athletics teams in Tallahassee, ACC members since 1992. 20 national titles in nine sports; football championships 1993, 1999, 2013 under Bobby Bowden era and 2013; women's soccer five titles since 2014.
Florida State–Miami football rivalry
Florida State–Miami football rivalry, the Seminoles vs Hurricanes series since 1951, Miami leads 37-33; known for Wide Right missed kicks (1991, 1992, 2000), Wide Left 2002, and the 2016 Block at the Rock.
Ivy League
Ivy League, or Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the Ancient Eight: an NCAA Division I athletic conference of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, founded 1954, with no athletic scholarships.
J Batt
J Batt, born Jason Michael Batt, is an American college athletics director who became Kentucky's athletics director and CEO of Champions Blue LLC in 2026.
Jim Fiore
Jim Fiore (born 1968) is an American sports executive, ninth athletic director at Stony Brook University 2003-2013, 2011-12 NACDA Northeast Region AD of the Year, dismissed in 2013 amid harassment allegations, later CEO of Dynamic Sports Management.
List of NCAA college football rivalry games
List of NCAA college football rivalry games: recurring matchups such as Minnesota-Wisconsin (Paul Bunyan's Axe, most-played at 134+ meetings), the Iron Bowl, and the Red River Rivalry, defined by trophies, named games, and all-time series records shaped by realignment and disputed game counts.
List of NCAA conferences
The list of NCAA conferences covers the athletic conferences, over 100 across Divisions I, II, and III, recognized by the NCAA as of September 2026.
List of NCAA Division I institutions
NCAA Division I institutions: the 361 active member schools of the NCAA's top division, split into FBS (68), FCS (68), and non-football schools, listed in the NCAA directory with 44 conferences.
List of NCAA Division II institutions
List of NCAA Division II institutions: about 290-300 colleges and universities in 23 conferences competing under the NCAA's partial-scholarship model, established 1973; includes provisional members and geographic gaps.
List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships
Stanford leads all NCAA schools with 138 team championships, ahead of UCLA with 126 and Southern California with 115, and holds a 50-year title streak.
List of NJCAA Division I schools
NJCAA Division I schools are two-year colleges in the top division of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), 500+ member institutions, 28 sports; fullest scholarships, region-based, official list at njcaa.org.
List of Southeastern Conference champions
SEC champions: yearly title winners of the Southeastern Conference since 1933 in football, baseball, basketball, and other sports; football decided by a championship game since 1992, Georgia the 2025 football champion.
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), NCAA Division I conference founded October 1980 by Army, Fairfield, Fordham, Iona, Manhattan, and Saint Peter's; 13 members; renamed Metro Conference July 1, 2026.
Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry
Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry: annual Big Ten game for the Paul Bunyan – Governor of Michigan Trophy since 1953. Michigan leads the all-time series 75-38-5 and the trophy series 42-29-2.
Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry
Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, "The Game": annual Big Ten series since 1897 between the Wolverines and Buckeyes; Michigan leads 62-52-6, defined by the 1969-78 Ten-Year War and season-ending stakes.
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference (MAC), also known as the MAC Conference, is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1946 and competing in 23 sports, with football at the FBS level.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC, pronounced MEE-ack) is a Norfolk, Virginia-based NCAA Division I FCS conference of eight historically black institutions, founded in 1970 and Division I since 1980.
Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), formerly the Gateway Conference, is an NCAA FCS football league founded in 1985 and renamed in June 2008. Headquartered in St. Louis, it holds an FCS-best 14 national championships, led by North Dakota State's ten.
Mountain West Conference
Mountain West Conference (MWC): NCAA Division I FBS athletic conference founded July 1, 1999, headquartered in Las Vegas; commissioner Gloria Nevarez; 2026-27 members include Air Force, UNLV, San Jose State, Hawaii and UTEP; six-year CBS/Fox/Kiswe media deals through 2031-32.
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA): Kansas City-based governing body for small-college athletics, 250 member schools, 20 conferences, 31 national championships, 89,000 student-athletes, distinct from the NCAA.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA): member-led US college sports governing body, founded 1906 as IAAUS, renamed 1910. Over 1,100 schools in three divisions; House settlement 2025 allows $20.5M revenue sharing.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of the Philippines, founded in 1924 by Dr. Regino R. Ylanan, is the country's oldest collegiate athletic league, distinct from the US NCAA and the UAAP, with ten member schools and a 2024 centennial Season 100.
National Junior College Athletic Association
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), US governing body for two-year college athletics, founded 1938/1939; 500+ schools, 60,000 athletes, 28 sports, Divisions I-III, no eligibility center.
NCAA Division I FCS Football Championship
NCAA Division I FCS Football Championship: the NCAA's single-elimination 24-team playoff (top 8 seeds get byes) crowning the Football Championship Subdivision champion since 1978 as Division I-AA; campus-site rounds end in a neutral title game, set for Nashville January 11, 2027; Montana State is reigning champion.
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly I-A: the top level of Division I college football, playing bowls and the 12-team College Football Playoff instead of an NCAA championship; autonomous Power conferences and Group of Five; no NCAA-sponsored FBS title.
NCAA Division II
NCAA Division II (DII) is the NCAA's middle division, founded August 6, 1973, defined by a partial-scholarship model, one-institution-one-vote governance, the Life in the Balance philosophy, and 25 national championships rising to 26 with women's bowling in 2028.
NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III, established 1973, is the NCAA's largest division with 422 active schools in 2025-26; member colleges award no athletics scholarships and govern by one-institution-one-vote.