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Division I is the highest level of college sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. Its schools generally have the biggest budgets, the best facilities, and offer more their students more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III.
Below is a list of sports conferences belonging to Division I:
These conferences only play football:
These conferences do not play football, but do play basketball:
This conference plays more than one sport, but does not play either football or basketball:
These conferences only play ice hockey:
The only Division I all-sports conference that plays either men's or women's ice hockey is the Big Ten. It started a men's hockey league in 2013–14.
The Ivy League technically sponsors ice hockey for both men and women, but does not hold a championship tournament. All Ivy League schools that play ice hockey play in Hockey East. The Ivy League determines its champion from results of ECAC Hockey games that involve two Ivy members.
These conferences only play water polo. Two run men's and women's leagues, and the other runs only a women's league.
One conference competes only in men's wrestling:
These conferences play only one sport:
In some sports, the NCAA does not split schools into divisions because only a small number of schools play a given sport. Technically, conferences in these sports are not Division I. However, most of the schools in these conferences are in Division I in other sports.
These conferences only play men's volleyball (note that women's volleyball is split into divisions):
These conferences only compete in skiing:
These conferences only compete in gymnastics:
These conferences only compete in rifle shooting:
This conference only does fencing: