Great West

A former conference: eight schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 2004. 2011 champions: Cal Poly and North Dakota.

2011 standings

TeamConf.OverallPollEloLast 5
North Dakota3–⁠18–⁠31347LWWWW
Cal Poly3–⁠16–⁠51383WWLLW
South Dakota2–⁠26–⁠51328LWLWL
Southern Utah1–⁠36–⁠51394LWWLW
UC Davis1–⁠34–⁠71285LLWLW

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

Against other conferences, 2011

Great West teams are 20–⁠15 outside the conference.

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

Champions

Most titles

Cal Poly4last 2011
UC Davis2last 2009
North Dakota1last 2011
Southern Utah1last 2010
South Dakota State1last 2007
North Dakota State1last 2006

By year

2011Cal Poly, North Dakota (shared)
2010Southern Utah
2009UC Davis
2008Cal Poly
2007South Dakota State
2006North Dakota State
2005Cal Poly, UC Davis (shared)
2004Cal Poly

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 Poly2004–⁠2011
  2. North Dakota State2004–⁠2007
  3. Northern Colorado2004–⁠2005
  4. South Dakota State2004–⁠2007
  5. Southern Utah2004–⁠2011
  6. UC Davis2004–⁠2011
  7. North Dakota2008–⁠2011
  8. South Dakota2008–⁠2011
Every school and its years (8)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 2004; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2012Cal PolyLeft for Big Sky (football only)September 7, 2010
2012North DakotaLeft for Big SkyNovember 1, 2010
2012South DakotaLeft for MVFC (football only)November 3, 2010
2012Southern UtahLeft for Big Sky (football only)November 1, 2010
2012UC DavisLeft for Big Sky (football only)September 7, 2010
2008North DakotaJoined from North Central Conference (football only)Source
2008North Dakota StateLeft for MVFC (football only)Source
2008South DakotaJoined from North Central Conference (football only)Source
2008South Dakota StateLeft for MVFC (football only)Source
2004Cal PolyJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
2004North Dakota StateJoined from North Central Conference (football only)Source
2004Northern ColoradoJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
2004South Dakota StateJoined from North Central Conference (football only)Source
2004Southern UtahJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
2004UC DavisJoined (independent before) (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. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 42 team-seasons from 2004. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 28 team-seasons from 2004. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.