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CIAA

12 current members, four former. Our membership records under this name start in 1973; its titles go back further. 2006 champion: North Carolina Central.

2026 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5Next
Virginia State6–⁠07–⁠11300WWWWWat Johnson C. Smith Oct 31
Virginia Union5–⁠06–⁠11336WWWWWvs. Shaw Oct 24
Johnson C. Smith5–⁠06–⁠11330WWWWWat Bowie State Oct 24
Fayetteville State3–⁠24–⁠31215LLLWWat Bluefield State Oct 24
Bowie State3–⁠23–⁠41117LWWWLvs. Johnson C. Smith Oct 24
Shaw2–⁠44–⁠41057WWLLLat Virginia Union Oct 24
Livingstone2–⁠42–⁠51073WWLLLvs. Elizabeth City State Oct 24
Elizabeth City State1–⁠41–⁠61025LLLWLat Livingstone Oct 24
Lincoln (PA)1–⁠41–⁠6925LWLLLvs. Winston-Salem State Oct 24
Winston-Salem State1–⁠41–⁠61033LLLLWat Lincoln (PA) Oct 24
Bluefield State0–⁠50–⁠7889LLLLLvs. Fayetteville State Oct 24

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, week 7. Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2026

CIAA teams are 6–⁠15 outside the conference so far.

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

Champions

Most titles

Morgan State19last 1968
Hampton14last 1994
North Carolina Central8last 2006
North Carolina A&T5last 1964
Norfolk State4last 1984
Howard2last 1914
Delaware State1last 1956

By year

2006North Carolina Central
2005North Carolina Central
1994Hampton
1993Hampton
1992Hampton
1987Hampton
1985Hampton
1984Norfolk State
1980North Carolina Central
1976Norfolk State
1975Norfolk State
1974Norfolk State
38 earlier seasons, back to 1912
1968Morgan State
1967Morgan State
1966Morgan State
1965Morgan State
1964North Carolina A&T
1963North Carolina Central
1962Morgan State
1961North Carolina Central
1959North Carolina A&T
1958North Carolina A&T
1956Delaware State, Morgan State, North Carolina Central (shared)
1954North Carolina Central
1953North Carolina Central
1950North Carolina A&T
1949Morgan State
1946Morgan State
1944Morgan State
1943Morgan State
1942Morgan State
1941Morgan State
1940Morgan State
1937Morgan State
1935Morgan State
1934Morgan State
1933Morgan State
1932Morgan State
1931Hampton
1930Morgan State
1928Hampton
1927North Carolina A&T
1926Hampton
1925Hampton
1922Hampton
1916Hampton
1915Hampton
1914Hampton, Howard (shared)
1913Hampton
1912Howard

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.

Members

  1. Hampton
  2. Norfolk State
  3. North Carolina Central
  4. Winston-Salem State
  5. Bowie State
  6. Chowan
  7. Elizabeth City State
  8. Fayetteville State
  9. Johnson C. Smith
  10. Lincoln (PA)
  11. Livingstone
  12. Shaw
  13. St. Augustine’s
  14. Virginia State
  15. Virginia Union
  16. Bluefield State
Every school and its years (16)

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1973; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2007North Carolina CentralLeft to play as an independentSource
1997 †Norfolk StateLeft for MEACSource

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 233 team-seasons from 1973. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.