MEAC
Six current members, six former. Our membership records under this name start in 1978; its titles go back further. 2025 champion: South Carolina State.
2015 standings
| Team | Conf. | Overall | Poll | Elo | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7–1 | 10–2 | 21 | 1473 | WWWLW | ||
| 7–1 | 9–2 | 25 | 1428 | LWWWW | ||
| 7–1 | 8–3 | 1402 | WWWWW | |||
| 6–2 | 7–4 | 1385 | WWLWW | |||
| 5–3 | 6–5 | 1281 | WLLWW | |||
| 4–4 | 4–6 | 1238 | LLLWL | |||
| 4–4 | 4–7 | 1221 | LLWLW | |||
| Savannah State | 1–7 | 1–9 | 1017 | LLLLL | ||
| 1–7 | 1–10 | 1101 | WLLLL | |||
| 1–7 | 1–10 | 1137 | LWLLL | |||
| 1–7 | 1–10 | 1044 | LLLLW |
Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. Poll: the FCS coaches’ poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.
Against other conferences, 2015
MEAC teams are 8–24 outside the conference.
The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from the FBS count together.
Champions
Most titles
| South Carolina State | 20 | last 2025 |
| North Carolina A&T | 11 | last 2019 |
| Bethune-Cookman | 8 | last 2015 |
| Florida A&M | 8 | last 2010 |
| North Carolina Central | 7 | last 2023 |
| Delaware State | 6 | last 2007 |
| Hampton | 5 | last 2006 |
| Morgan State | 4 | last 2014 |
| Howard | 3 | last 2023 |
By year
| 2025 | South Carolina State |
| 2024 | South Carolina State |
| 2023 | Howard, North Carolina Central (shared) |
| 2022 | Howard, North Carolina Central (shared) |
| 2021 | South Carolina State |
| 2019 | North Carolina A&T, South Carolina State (shared) |
| 2018 | North Carolina A&T |
| 2017 | North Carolina A&T |
| 2016 | North Carolina Central |
| 2015 | Bethune-Cookman, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central (shared) |
| 2014 | Bethune-Cookman, Morgan State, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, South Carolina State (shared) |
| 2013 | Bethune-Cookman, South Carolina State (shared) |
41 earlier seasons, back to 1971
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
Every school and its years (12)
Members now
- Delaware State 1978 on
- Howard 1978 on
- South Carolina State 1978 on
- Morgan State 1986–2019, 2021 on
- Norfolk State 1999–2019, 2021 on
- North Carolina Central 2010–2019, 2021 on
Former members
- Bethune-Cookman 1980–2019
- Florida A&M 1979–1983, 1986–2003, 2005–2019
- North Carolina A&T 1978, 1980–2019
- Savannah State 2010–2018
- Hampton 1995–2017
- Winston-Salem State 2007
Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1978; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.
Who came and went
| Season | School | Move | Announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Bethune-Cookman | Left for SWAC | June 25, 2020 | |
| 2021 | Florida A&M | Left for SWAC | June 4, 2020 | |
| 2021 | North Carolina A&T | Left for Big South | February 7, 2020 | |
| 2019 | Savannah State | Left for SIAC | December 7, 2017 | |
| 2018 | Hampton | Left to play as an independent (football only) | Source | |
| 2011 † | North Carolina Central | Joined (independent before) | March 10, 2009 | |
| 2011 † | Savannah State | Joined (independent before) | March 10, 2009 | |
| 1997 † | Norfolk State | Joined from CIAA | 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 382 of 386 team-seasons from 1978. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in 0 of 2 team-seasons from 2026. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Honors while members
NFL first-round picks 2
| North Carolina A&T | 1 |
| South Carolina State | 1 |
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1978); 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 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $14.1 million in revenue, $2.0 million of it from sponsorships, and $11.9 million in expenses; it ended the year with $4.9 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Sonja Stills, was paid $351,000.
By year
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Top pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | $14.1M | $11.9M | $4.9M | $351K |
| 2023-24 | $11.1M | $13.1M | $4.1M | $344K |
| 2022-23 | $10.9M | $12.1M | $4.7M | $342K |
| 2021-22 | $11.3M | $11.3M | $5.9M | $362K |
| 2020-21 | $11.2M | $9.7M | $6.0M | $355K |
| 2019-20 | $9.4M | $11.9M | $4.1M | $321K |
| 2018-19 | $12.8M | $12.1M | $7.3M | |
| 2017-18 | $12.4M | $12.4M | $6.0M | $285K |
| 2016-17 | $12.2M | $10.3M | $6.5M | |
| 2015-16 | $10.5M | $10.3M | $4.6M | |
| 2014-15 | $9.2M | $9.1M | $4.5M | |
| 2013-14 | $8.2M | $8.1M | $4.7M | |
| 2012-13 | $7.7M | $7.3M | $5.0M | |
| 2011-12 | $6.6M | $6.3M | $4.3M | |
| 2010-11 | $6.5M | $6.5M | $4.1M |
Best paid, 2024-25
| Sonja Stills, commissioner | $351,000 |
| Raynoid Dedeaux, deputy commissioner | $242,000 |
Grants it lists, 2024-25
| Howard | student athlete opportunity fund | $392,000 |
| Morgan State | student athlete opportunity fund | $282,000 |
| Delaware State | student athlete opportunity fund | $206,000 |
| Sc State University Foundation | student athlete opportunity fund | $140,000 |
| Norfolk State | student athlete opportunity fund | $131,000 |
| North Carolina Central | student athlete opportunity fund | $128,000 |
| Coppin State University | student athlete opportunity fund | $31,000 |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore | student athlete opportunity fund | $30,000 |
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 56-0992403).