The season is about to begin and the list of the best NCAA Football Conferences is here with the ranking of the best for the season. All the best conferences are part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). But there are aindependent schools that are also part of the group of FBS group.
To clear things up for people who don’t know very well about the FBS conferences list, in a nutshell we are talking about the best college football teams for this season. But we are emphasizing the conferences and the teams of each one of them.
FBS or Football Bowl Subdivision is made up of ten conferences, the first five are known as the Power Five and the next five as the Power Group, it also includes a last conference with several independent schools for a total of eleven.
NCAA College Football 2021: Lists of the FBS conferences
American Athletic Conference
| Cincinnati Bearcats |
| East Carolina Pirates |
| Houston Cougars |
| Memphis Tigers |
| Navy Midshipmen |
| SMU Mustangs |
| South Florida Bulls |
| Temple Owls |
| Tulane Green Wave |
| Tulsa Golden Hurricane |
| UCF Knights |
Atlantic Coast Conference
| Atlantic Division |
| Boston College Eagles |
| Clemson Tigers |
| Florida State Seminoles |
| Louisville Cardinals |
| NC State Wolfpack |
| Syracuse Orange |
| Wake Forest Demon Deacons |
| Coastal Division |
| Duke Blue Devils |
| Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
| Miami Hurricanes |
| North Carolina Tar Heels |
| Pittsburgh Panthers |
| Virginia Cavaliers |
| Virginia Tech Hokies |
Big 12 Conference
| Baylor Bears |
| Iowa State Cyclones |
| Kansas Jayhawks |
| Kansas State Wildcats |
| Oklahoma Sooners |
| Oklahoma State Cowboys |
| TCU Horned Frogs |
| Texas Longhorns |
| Texas Tech Red Raiders |
| West Virginia Mountaineers |
Big 10 Conference
| East |
| Indiana Hoosiers |
| Maryland Terrapins |
| Michigan State Spartans |
| Michigan Wolverines |
| Ohio State Buckeyes |
| Penn State Nittany Lions |
| Rutgers Scarlet Knights |
| West |
| Illinois Fighting Illini |
| Iowa Hawkeyes |
| Minnesota Golden Gophers |
| Nebraska Cornhuskers |
| Northwestern Wildcats |
| Purdue Boilermakers |
| Wisconsin Badgers |
Conference USA
| East |
| Charlotte 49ers |
| Florida Atlantic Owls |
| Florida International Panthers |
| Marshall Thundering Herd |
| Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders |
| Old Dominion Monarchs |
| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers |
| West |
| Louisiana Tech Bulldogs |
| North Texas Mean Green |
| Rice Owls |
| Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles |
| UAB Blazers |
| UTEP Miners |
| UTSA Roadrunners |
FBS Independents
| Army Black Knights |
| BYU Cougars |
| Liberty Flames |
| New Mexico State Aggies |
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| UConn Huskies |
| UMass Minutemen |
Mid-American Conference
| East |
| Akron Zips |
| Bowling Green Falcons |
| Buffalo Bulls |
| Kent State Golden Flashes |
| Miami (OH) RedHawks |
| Ohio Bobcats |
| West |
| Ball State Cardinals |
| Central Michigan Chippewas |
| Eastern Michigan Eagles |
| Northern Illinois Huskies |
| Toledo Rockets |
| Western Michigan Broncos |
Mountain West Conference
| Mountain |
| Air Force Falcons |
| Boise State Broncos |
| Colorado State Rams |
| New Mexico Lobos |
| Utah State Aggies |
| Wyoming Cowboys |
| West |
| Fresno State Bulldogs |
| Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors |
| Nevada Wolf Pack |
| San Diego State Aztecs |
| San José State Spartans |
| UNLV Rebels |
Pac-12 Conference
| North |
| California Golden Bears |
| Oregon Ducks |
| Oregon State Beavers |
| Stanford Cardinal |
| Washington Huskies |
| Washington State Cougars |
| South |
| Arizona State Sun Devils |
| Arizona Wildcats |
| Colorado Buffaloes |
| UCLA Bruins |
| USC Trojans |
| Utah Utes |
Southeastern Conference
| East |
| Florida Gators |
| Georgia Bulldogs |
| Kentucky Wildcats |
| Missouri Tigers |
| South Carolina Gamecocks |
| Tennessee Volunteers |
| Vanderbilt Commodores |
| West |
| Alabama Crimson Tide |
| Arkansas Razorbacks |
| Auburn Tigers |
| LSU Tigers |
| Mississippi State Bulldogs |
| Ole Miss Rebels |
| Texas A&M Aggies |
Sun Belt Conference
| East |
| Appalachian State Mountaineers |
| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers |
| Georgia Southern Eagles |
| Georgia State Panthers |
| Troy Trojans |
| West |
| Arkansas State Red Wolves |
| Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns |
| South Alabama Jaguars |
| Texas State Bobcats |
| UL Monroe Warhawks |
Other conferences of the NCAA College Football 2021 season
There are other divisions and conferences that come to life during the season. The other divisions are the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision), Division II and Division III. Those other conferences are not unimportant, but they don’t attract the same number of tv viewers as the FBS (formerly known as Division I-A).
Those divisions have their separate championships. Division II and III are separate from the FBS and FCS. But the most famous and most followed by fans in the US and other parts of the world is the FBS or Division I-A. The fame of this division is due to the fact that most of the “big” quarterbacks and other players tend to come out of the schools that are part of this conference.
The conferences that are not “popular” are like that because the memberschools do not offer a full athletic scholarship like the two divisions above (FBS and FCS) do. In addition, these schools, within these conferences, are mostly private institutions or with little government support.
