Independent DIII
Two current members, 28 former. Our membership records under this name start in 1973.
2026 records
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.
Members
- Georgetown
- New Haven
- Samford
- San Diego
- UAlbany
- Towson
- Dayton
- James Madison
- Fordham
- Wagner
- Duquesne
- UCF
- Mercyhurst
- West Georgia
- Stony Brook
- Marist
- Drake
- Stonehill
- Davidson
- Charleston Southern
- Sacred Heart
- UAB
- Alfred State
- Apprentice School
- Finlandia University
- Wesley College
- Washington St. Louis
- Thomas More
- Maine Maritime
- Keystone
Every school and its years (30)
Members now
- Apprentice School 2014 on
- Keystone 2025 on
Former members
- Maine Maritime 2024
- Thomas More 2018
- Finlandia University 2014–2017
- Washington St. Louis 2017
- Alfred State 2014–2016
- Wesley College 2014
- UAlbany 1973–1994
- Charleston Southern 1991–1992
- Davidson 1990–1992
- Dayton 1977–1992
- Drake 1987–1992
- Duquesne 1979–1992
- Georgetown 1973–1992
- Mercyhurst 1981–1992
- Sacred Heart 1991–1992
- San Diego 1973–1992
- UAB 1991–1992
- Wagner 1978–1991
- Marist 1985–1988
- Samford 1973, 1984–1988
- Stonehill 1988
- Stony Brook 1984–1987
- Fordham 1978–1984
- West Georgia 1981–1982
- New Haven 1973–1981
- UCF 1979–1981
- James Madison 1977–1978
- Towson 1975–1978
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
| Season | School | Move | Announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 † | Buffalo | Left to play as an independent (football only) | Source | |
| 1993 | Drake | Left for Pioneer Conference (football only) | Source | |
| 1993 | San Diego | Left for Pioneer Conference (football only) | Source | |
| 1993 | UAB | Left to play as an independent (football only) | Source | |
| 1987 | Drake | Joined from Dropped (exhibition only) (football only) | Source | |
| 1987 † | Villanova | Left 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 201 team-seasons from 1973. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.