CAA

A former conference: 19 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 2007. 2025 champion: Rhode Island.

2026 standings

TeamConf.OverallRankNotes
Monmouth4–⁠05–⁠223
Campbell3–⁠06–⁠116
Bryant3–⁠05–⁠2
Albany2–⁠14–⁠3
Stony Brook2–⁠14–⁠3
Sacred Heart3–⁠23–⁠4
Elon2–⁠24–⁠4
North Carolina A&T2–⁠23–⁠5
Rhode Island1–⁠24–⁠3
Maine1–⁠31–⁠6
New Hampshire1–⁠42–⁠6
Hampton0–⁠31–⁠6
Towson0–⁠40–⁠8

In the template’s own order, its tiebreakers applied. Rank: STATS Poll. Standings: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): 2026 Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference standings (license).

Champions

Most titles

Richmond6last 2024
James Madison6last 2021
Villanova4last 2023
William & Mary3last 2022
Rhode Island2last 2025
Delaware2last 2020
Maine2last 2018
Towson2last 2012
UAlbany1last 2023
Massachusetts1last 2007

By year

2025Rhode Island
2024Rhode Island, Richmond (shared)
2023Richmond, UAlbany, Villanova (shared)
2022William & Mary
2021James Madison, Villanova (shared)
2020Delaware
2019James Madison
2018Maine
2017James Madison
2016James Madison
2015James Madison, Richmond, William & Mary (shared)
2013Maine
6 earlier seasons, back to 2007
2012Richmond, Towson, Villanova (shared)
2011Towson
2010Delaware, William & Mary (shared)
2009Richmond, Villanova (shared)
2008James Madison
2007Massachusetts, Richmond (shared)

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. Delaware2007–⁠2024
  2. Hofstra2007–⁠2009
  3. James Madison2007–⁠2021
  4. Maine2007–⁠2022
  5. Massachusetts2007–⁠2011
  6. New Hampshire2007–⁠2022
  7. Northeastern2007–⁠2009
  8. Rhode Island2007–⁠2022
  9. Richmond2007–⁠2022
  10. Towson2007–⁠20192021–⁠2022
  11. Villanova2007–⁠2022
  12. William & Mary2007–⁠2022
  13. Old Dominion2011–⁠2012
  14. Georgia State2012
  15. Stony Brook2013–⁠2022
  16. UAlbany2013–⁠2022
  17. Elon2014–⁠2022
  18. Hampton2022
  19. Monmouth2022
Every school and its years (19)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 2007; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2025DelawareLeft for Conference USA (football only)November 28, 2023
2022HamptonJoined from Big South (football only)January 25, 2022
2022James MadisonLeft for Sun Belt Conference (football only)Source
2022MonmouthJoined from Big South (football only)January 25, 2022
2022 †North Carolina A&TJoined from Big SouthFebruary 18, 2022
2022 †Stony BrookJoined from America East ConferenceJanuary 25, 2022
2014ElonJoined from Southern ConferenceMay 23, 2013
2013Georgia StateLeft for Sun Belt ConferenceApril 8, 2012
2013Stony BrookJoined from Big South (football only)August 7, 2012
2013UAlbanyJoined from NEC (football only)August 7, 2012
2012MassachusettsLeft for Mid-American Conference (football only)April 20, 2011
2011Old DominionJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
2010HofstraLeft for Dropped football (football only)Source
2010NortheasternLeft for Dropped football (football only)Source
2007DelawareJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
11 earlier moves
2007HofstraJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007James MadisonJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007MaineJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007MassachusettsJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007New HampshireJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007NortheasternJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007Rhode IslandJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007RichmondJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007TowsonJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007VillanovaJoined from Atlantic 10 (football only)Source
2007William & MaryJoined from Atlantic 10 (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 189 team-seasons from 2007. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in 187 of 188 team-seasons from 2007. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

NFL first-round picks 1

Delaware1

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 2007); 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.

The money

The Colonial Athletic Association (its corporation is now the CAA Football) is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2023 reports $1.2 million in revenue, $403,000 of it from flosports rights fees, and $1.1 million in expenses; it ended the year with $1.1 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Joseph D’antonio, was paid $104,000.

By year

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsTop pay
2022-23$1.2M$1.1M$1.1M$104K
2021-22$1.2M$841K$1.1M$99K
2020-21$775K$562K$643K$101K
2019-20$934K$855K$455K$104K
2018-19$678K$703K$376K
2017-18$676K$679K$439K
2016-17$665K$735K$448K
2015-16$950K$1.2M$555K
2014-15$1.1M$956K$704K
2013-14$674K$603K$690K
2012-13$635K$514K$471K
2011-12$638K$627K$357K
2010-11$648K$568K$326K

Best paid, 2022-23

Joseph D’antonio, commissioner$104,000
Lynn Newton, COO$27,000

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 42-1719463).