Mid-American Conference
Established	1946
Association	NCAA
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FBS
Members	12
Sports fielded
Region	Great Lakes
Headquarters	Cleveland, Ohio
Commissioner	Jon Steinbrecher (since 2009)
Website	getsomemaction.com
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The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana, and New York. For football, the MAC participates in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision.

The MAC is headquartered in the Public Square district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and has two members in the nearby Akron area. The MAC has been referred to as the 'Conference of Quarterbacks' because of the accomplishments of numerous former players in the National Football League.^[1]^[2] The conference also ranks highest among all ten NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates.^[3]

2Member schools
4Sports
- 4.1Men's sponsored sports by school
- 4.2Women's sponsored sports by school
5Football
7Championships
10Media

History[edit]

Locations of the full members of the Mid-American Conference.

The five charter members of the Mid-American Conference were Ohio University, Butler University, the University of Cincinnati, Wayne University (now Wayne State University), and Western Reserve University, one of the predecessors to today's Case Western Reserve University. Wayne University left after the first year. Miami University and Western Michigan University took the place of those charter members for the 1948 season. The MAC added the University of Toledo (1950), Kent State University (1951), and Bowling Green State University (1952). The University of Cincinnati resigned its membership February 18, 1953, with an effective date of June 1, 1953. Cincinnati's decision was based on a new requirement that at least 5 conference football games would have to be scheduled each season, University President Raymond Walters saying they '...regretfully resign...as the university could not continue under the present setup...' ^[4]

The membership was steady for the next two decades except for the addition of Marshall University in 1954 and the departure of Western Reserve in 1955.^[5] Marshall was expelled from the conference in 1969 due to NCAA violations.^[6] The first major expansion since the 1950s took place in the mid-1970s with the addition of Central Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University in 1972 and Ball State University and Northern Illinois University in 1973. NIU left after the 1985–86 season. The University of Akron joined the conference in 1992. The conference became the largest in Division I-A with the re-admittance of Marshall and NIU in 1997 and addition of the Bulls from the University at Buffalo in 1998. The University of Central Florida, a non-football all-sports member in the Atlantic Sun Conference at the time, joined for football only in 2002, becoming the first football-only member in conference history. Marshall and Central Florida left after the 2004–05 academic year, both joining Conference USA in all sports.

In May 2005, the Temple Owls in Philadelphia signed a six-year contract with the MAC as a football-only school and began play in the East Division in 2007.^[7]

The Louisville Cardinals were a MAC affiliate for field hockey for a number of years when Louisville was a member of the Metro Conference and Conference USA, winning two MAC tourney titles in 2003 and 2004.^[8]

The Missouri State Bears, Evansville Purple Aces, and Southern Illinois Salukis participate in the MAC for men's swimming and diving.^[9] In 2012, the West Virginia Mountaineers joined the Florida Atlantic Owls and Hartwick College Hawks as men's soccer affiliates.^[10] Florida Atlantic departed upon joining Conference USA in 2013. Hartwick's contract was not renewed by the MAC in 2015. Missouri, Northern Iowa, and Old Dominion are wrestling affiliates. Appalachian State University and Longwood University are associates in field hockey; Missouri State had also been a member in that sport from 2005 until dropping field hockey after the 2016 season. Binghamton University is an affiliate in men's tennis. In June 2017, SIU Edwardsville (SIUE) was invited to become an affiliate member in both men's soccer and wrestling in 2018.^[11] When Buffalo suddenly dropped four sports, including men's soccer, SIUE's move in that sport was made immediately.^[12]

The UMass Minutemen joined the MAC as a football-only member in July 2012; the university announced that the team would leave the MAC at the end of the 2015 season due to contractual issues.^[13]^[14] Meanwhile, Temple ended its affiliation with the MAC in football and joined the Big East for football in July 2012. Following the split of the Big East into football-sponsoring and non-football conferences in July 2013, Temple became a full member of the football-sponsoring portion, the American Athletic Conference, ending its membership in the Atlantic 10 at that time.^[15]^[16] The Chicago State Cougars were an affiliate for men's tennis until joining the Western Athletic Conference, which sponsors that sport, in July 2013.

Member schools[edit]

Current members[edit]

There are twelve public schools with full membership:

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Enrollment	Nickname
East Division
University of Akron	Akron, Ohio	1870	1992^[17]	22,169^[18]	Zips
Bowling Green State University	Bowling Green, Ohio	1910	1952^[17]	18,756^[19]	Falcons
State University of New York at Buffalo	Buffalo, New York	1846	1998^[17]	30,183^[20]	Bulls
Kent State University	Kent, Ohio	1910	1951^[17]	30,067^[21]	Golden Flashes
Miami University	Oxford, Ohio	1809	1947^[17]	18,907	RedHawks
Ohio University	Athens, Ohio	1804	1946^[17]	23,701 ^[22]	Bobcats
West Division
Ball State University	Muncie, Indiana	1918	1973^[17]	20,113	Cardinals
Central Michigan University	Mount Pleasant, Michigan	1

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