Big West

A former conference: 16 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1988; its titles go back further. 2000 champion: Boise State.

2000 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Boise State5–⁠010–⁠21644WWWWW
Utah State4–⁠15–⁠61408WWWLL
Idaho3–⁠25–⁠61435WLWWL
North Texas1–⁠43–⁠81288LWLLW
New Mexico State1–⁠43–⁠81355WLLLL
Arkansas State1–⁠41–⁠101294LLLLW

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2000

Big West teams are 12–⁠25 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Champions

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Schools

  1. Cal State Fullerton1988–⁠1992
  2. Fresno State1988–⁠1991
  3. Long Beach State1988–⁠1991
  4. New Mexico State1988–⁠2000
  5. Pacific1988–⁠1995
  6. San José State1988–⁠1995
  7. UNLV1988–⁠1995
  8. Utah State1988–⁠2000
  9. Nevada1992–⁠1999
  10. Arkansas State1993–⁠19951999–⁠2000
  11. Louisiana1993–⁠1995
  12. Louisiana Tech1993–⁠1995
  13. Northern Illinois1993–⁠1995
  14. Boise State1996–⁠2000
  15. Idaho1996–⁠2000
  16. North Texas1996–⁠2000
Every school and its years (16)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1988; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2001Arkansas StateLeft for Sun Belt Conference (football only)Source
2001Boise StateLeft for WACSource
2001IdahoLeft for Sun Belt Conference (football only)Source
2001New Mexico StateLeft for Sun Belt ConferenceSource
2001North TexasLeft for Sun Belt ConferenceSource
2001Utah StateLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
2000NevadaLeft for WACSource
1999Arkansas StateJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1996Arkansas StateLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
1996Boise StateJoined from Big SkySource
1996IdahoJoined from Big SkySource
1996LouisianaLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
1996Louisiana TechLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
1996North TexasJoined (independent before)Source
1996Northern IllinoisLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
9 earlier moves
1996PacificLeft for Dropped football (football only)Source
1996San José StateLeft for WACSource
1996UNLVLeft for WACSource
1993Arkansas StateJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1993Northern IllinoisJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1992 †Cal State FullertonLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
1992Fresno StateLeft for WACSource
1992NevadaJoined from Big SkySource
1991 †Long Beach StateLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 100 team-seasons from 1988. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 14 team-seasons from 1993. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

Consensus All-Americans 1

Northern Illinois1

NFL first-round picks 1

Fresno State1

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1988); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.