Most wins by conference.

[xmanii]

My google-fu is weak. I am trying to figure out which conference (D-1) has the most college football championships, as well as the basketball conferences.

Can anyone help, or supply a link?

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I'd say the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) is probably right up there for sheer number of championship wins. Mostly by either
P(d)uke or CAROLINA.

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And yes, I chose that color on purpose!

 

[Steve Jung]

for football, check here.

 

[Dungannon]

The Pac-10 has the most National Championships in Men's Basketball with 15.

 

[xmanii]

Thanks for the link.

Was hoping to get a list, to see where the SEC ranks, and where the Big 12 ranks. A guy at work and I were having a discussion about it.

 

[drothgery]

I'd be shocked if it wasn't the Big Ten for football (even if you don't count Penn State's pre-Big Ten titles); the other conferences except for the Pac 10 have changed their membership too much over the years, though if you count titles before the split between I-A and I-AA, the Ivy League might very well be in the running.

 

[drothgery]

Thanks for the link.

Was hoping to get a list, to see where the SEC ranks, and where the Big 12 ranks. A guy at work and I were having a discussion about it.

Almost certainly the Big 12 ranks fairly low, just because it's relatively new; its members have won a lot of titles, but they were mostly in the Big 6/7/8 or SWC when they did.

 

[drothgery]

The Pac-10 has the most National Championships in Men's Basketball with 15.

Yup. Going by NCAA tournament titles (definitive now; there was a time when the NIT was more prestigous than the NCAAs)...

The Big Ten has, oddly, 10.

Assuming Kentucky was always in the SEC, SEC schools have 9 (the only non-Kentucky titles are recent).

The ACC has 6.

The Big East has 5; current Big East members who weren't in the Big East at the time add another 5.

The Big 12 actually has none; Kansas and Oklahoma State each won two titles as part of the Big 6/7/8.

Current Mountain West teams have 3 titles, though 2 were probably pre-WAC, and the other was pre-MWC.

Which leaves the titles won by Holy Cross (1947), CCNY (1950), La Salle (1954), San Fransisco (1955-1956), Loyola Ill. (1963), and UTEP (1966).

 

[xmanii]

Yea, Kentucky has always been in the SEC.

As for the Big 12, weren't they known as the Big 8, before they added more members? If so, I would consider them two conferences the same.

 

[drothgery]

As for the Big 12, weren't they known as the Big 8, before they added more members? If so, I would consider them two conferences the same.

The Big 6 became the Big 7, and then the Big 8. In 1996, about half of the SWC (Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech) joined with the the old Big 8 to make the Big 12. Considering the impact of the Texas schools, I don't think you can reasonably consider the Big 12 to be a simple extension of the old Big 8.