Lone Star

11 current members, 10 former. Our membership records under this name start in 1932. 2019 champion: Tarleton State.

2021 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Midwestern State6–⁠17–⁠31254WLWLW
Angelo State5–⁠211–⁠31367WWWWL
West Texas5–⁠27–⁠41310WLWWW
East Texas A&M5–⁠27–⁠41273WWWLW
UT Permian Basin3–⁠45–⁠51159LWLLL
Texas A&M–Kingsville3–⁠45–⁠51169WWLWL
Eastern New Mexico1–⁠63–⁠71074WLLLL
Western New Mexico0–⁠71–⁠10985LLLLL

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, 2021

Lone Star teams are 18–⁠13 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.

Members

  1. North Texas1932–⁠19421946–⁠1948
  2. Texas State1932–⁠19421946–⁠1983
  3. Houston1946–⁠1948
  4. Abilene Christian1982–⁠2012
  5. East Texas A&M1982–⁠20192021
  6. Sam Houston1982–⁠1983
  7. Stephen F. Austin1982–⁠1983
  8. Tarleton State1995–⁠2019
  9. Incarnate Word2010–⁠2012
  10. Angelo State2014 on
  11. Eastern New Mexico2014 on
  12. McMurry2014
  13. Midwestern State2014 on
  14. Texas A&M–Kingsville2014 on
  15. UT Permian Basin2014 on
  16. West Texas2014 on
  17. Western New Mexico2016 on
  18. Central Washington2022 on
  19. Simon Fraser2022 on
  20. Western Oregon2022 on
  21. Sul Ross State2024 on
Every school and its years (21)

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1932; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2022East Texas A&MLeft for Southland ConferenceSeptember 28, 2021
2020Tarleton StateLeft to play as an independent (football only)November 12, 2019
2013Abilene ChristianLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
2013Incarnate WordLeft to play as an independent (football only)August 20, 2012
1986 †West TexasJoined from MVCSource

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 276 team-seasons from 1932. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.