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

TeamConf.OverallPollEloLast 5
North Carolina A&T7–⁠110–⁠2211473WWWLW
Bethune-Cookman7–⁠19–⁠2251428LWWWW
North Carolina Central7–⁠18–⁠31402WWWWW
South Carolina State6–⁠27–⁠41385WWLWW
Hampton5–⁠36–⁠51281WLLWW
Morgan State4–⁠44–⁠61238LLLWL
Norfolk State4–⁠44–⁠71221LLWLW
Savannah State1–⁠71–⁠91017LLLLL
Florida A&M1–⁠71–⁠101101WLLLL
Howard1–⁠71–⁠101137LWLLL
Delaware State1–⁠71–⁠101044LLLLW

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 State20last 2025
North Carolina A&T11last 2019
Bethune-Cookman8last 2015
Florida A&M8last 2010
North Carolina Central7last 2023
Delaware State6last 2007
Hampton5last 2006
Morgan State4last 2014
Howard3last 2023

By year

2025South Carolina State
2024South Carolina State
2023Howard, North Carolina Central (shared)
2022Howard, North Carolina Central (shared)
2021South Carolina State
2019North Carolina A&T, South Carolina State (shared)
2018North Carolina A&T
2017North Carolina A&T
2016North Carolina Central
2015Bethune-Cookman, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central (shared)
2014Bethune-Cookman, Morgan State, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, South Carolina State (shared)
2013Bethune-Cookman, South Carolina State (shared)
41 earlier seasons, back to 1971
2012Bethune-Cookman
2010Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M, South Carolina State (shared)
2009South Carolina State
2008South Carolina State
2007Delaware State
2006Hampton
2005Hampton
2004Hampton, South Carolina State (shared)
2003North Carolina A&T
2002Bethune-Cookman
2001Florida A&M
2000Florida A&M
1999North Carolina A&T
1998Florida A&M, Hampton (shared)
1997Hampton
1996Florida A&M
1995Florida A&M
1994South Carolina State
1993Howard
1992North Carolina A&T
1991Delaware State, North Carolina A&T (shared)
1990Florida A&M
1989Delaware State
1988Bethune-Cookman, Delaware State, Florida A&M (shared)
1987Delaware State
1986North Carolina A&T
1985Delaware State
1984Bethune-Cookman
1983South Carolina State
1982South Carolina State
1981South Carolina State
1980South Carolina State
1979Morgan State
1978South Carolina State
1977South Carolina State
1976Morgan State, South Carolina State (shared)
1975North Carolina A&T, South Carolina State (shared)
1974South Carolina State
1973North Carolina Central
1972North Carolina Central
1971Morgan State

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. Delaware State1978 on
  2. Howard1978 on
  3. North Carolina A&T19781980–⁠2019
  4. South Carolina State1978 on
  5. Florida A&M1979–⁠19831986–⁠20032005–⁠2019
  6. Bethune-Cookman1980–⁠2019
  7. Morgan State1986–⁠20192021 on
  8. Hampton1995–⁠2017
  9. Norfolk State1999–⁠20192021 on
  10. Winston-Salem State2007
  11. North Carolina Central2010–⁠20192021 on
  12. Savannah State2010–⁠2018
Every school and its years (12)

Members now

Former members

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

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2021Bethune-CookmanLeft for SWACJune 25, 2020
2021Florida A&MLeft for SWACJune 4, 2020
2021North Carolina A&TLeft for Big SouthFebruary 7, 2020
2019Savannah StateLeft for SIACDecember 7, 2017
2018HamptonLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
2011 †North Carolina CentralJoined (independent before)March 10, 2009
2011 †Savannah StateJoined (independent before)March 10, 2009
1997 †Norfolk StateJoined from CIAASource

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

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

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsTop 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

Howardstudent athlete opportunity fund$392,000
Morgan Statestudent athlete opportunity fund$282,000
Delaware Statestudent athlete opportunity fund$206,000
Sc State University Foundationstudent athlete opportunity fund$140,000
Norfolk Statestudent athlete opportunity fund$131,000
North Carolina Centralstudent athlete opportunity fund$128,000
Coppin State Universitystudent athlete opportunity fund$31,000
University of Maryland Eastern Shorestudent 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).