Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a college sports conference whose full members are located in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It sponsors 11 men's sports and 12 women's sports at the NCAA Division I level. In football, the MAC is one of 10 conferences that play in the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).

The MAC was founded in 1946 by five schools in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, but only one of the founding members, Ohio University, is still in the conference. All but two of its current full members are in those three states.

Sports sponsored

• Baseball (men only)
• Basketball (both men and women)
• Cross country (both men and women)
• Field hockey (women only)
• Football (men only)
• Golf (both men and women)
• Gymnastics (women only)
• Soccer (both men and women)
• Softball (women only)
• Swimming and diving (both men and women)
• Tennis (both men and women)
• Track and field, indoor (both men and women)
• Track and field, outdoor (both men and women)
• Volleyball (women only)
• Wrestling (men only)

Members

Full members

Currently, the MVC has 12 full members, all public schools, each of which competes in at least 15 MAC sports. Every member of the conference competes in football, baseball, men's and women's basketball, and the following women's sports: cross country, soccer, softball, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball. In many sports, the conference is split into East and West Divisions.

School	Location	Founded	Type	Nickname	Joined MAC
East Division
University of Akron	Akron, Ohio	1870	Public	Zips	1992
Bowling Green State University	Bowling Green, Ohio	1910	Public	Falcons	1952
University at Buffalo	Buffalo, New York	1846	Public	Bulls	1998
Kent State University	Kent, Ohio	1910	Public	Golden Flashes	1981
Miami University	Oxford, Ohio	1809	Public	RedHawks	1977
Ohio University	Athens, Ohio	1804	Public	Bobcats	1948
West Division
Ball State University	Muncie, Indiana	1918	Public	Cardinals	1973
Central Michigan University	Mount Pleasant, Michigan	1892	Public	Chippewas	1971
Eastern Michigan University	Ypsilanti, Michigan	1892	Public	Eagles	1971
Northern Illinois University	DeKalb, Illinois	1895	Public	Huskies	1975, 1997
University of Toledo	Toledo, Ohio	1872	Public	Rockets	1950
Western Michigan University	Kalamazoo, Michigan	1903	Public	Broncos	1947

Associate members

The MAC has nine "associate members" that play only one or two sports in the conference. Of these schools, only one has two sports in the MAC.

School	Location	Founded	Type	Sport(s)	Current main conference	Nickname
Binghamton University	Vestal, New York	1946	Public	Men's tennis	America East	Bearcats
University of Evansville	Evansville, Indiana	1854	Private	Men's swimming and diving	Missouri Valley	Purple Aces
Longwood University	Farmville, Virginia	1839	Public	Field hockey	Big South	Lancers
University of Missouri	Columbia, Missouri	1839	Public	Wrestling	SEC	Tigers
Missouri State University	Springfield, Missouri	1905	Public	Field hockey, men's swimming and diving	Missouri Valley	Bears
University of Northern Iowa	Cedar Falls, Iowa	1876	Public	Wrestling	Missouri Valley	Panthers
Old Dominion University	Norfolk, Virginia	1930	Public	Wrestling	Conference USA	Monarchs
Southern Illinois University Carbondale	Carbondale, Illinois	1869	Public	Men's swimming and diving	Missouri Valley	Salukis
West Virginia University	Morgantown, West Virginia	1867	Public	Men's soccer	Big 12	Mountaineers

Future associate member

Another school will join the MAC in a single sport in July 2017.

School	Location	Founded	Type	Sport(s)	Current main conference	Nickname
Appalachian State University	Boone, North Carolina	1899	Public	Field hockey	Sun Belt	Mountaineers

References

• "Mid-American Conference". mac-sports.com. Retrieved 2014-06-04.