College Sports Realignment Tracker for 2026 and Beyond

Editor’s note: This post has been updated as of Friday, July 18, 2025. Note that this list only reflects changes in effect beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. For a list of changes in effect starting with the current 2025-26 academic year, click here. This article will be updated throughout the current academic year as more changes become known.

Latest Changes

NCAA Division 1: Louisiana Tech will join the Sun Belt (7/15/25); Tennessee State will add men’s hockey (7/10/25).

NCAA Division 2: Wayne State (MI) will add women’s soccer (7/16/25).

NCAA Division 3: Westminster (MO) will add flag football (7/18/25); Allegheny will add flag football (7/16/25).

NAIA: Saint Mary-of-the-Woods will transition its sprint football team to a full football program (7/10/25)

Another new academic year is upon us as the calendar turns to July 1. That means we can begin looking to the future for the changes happening for the next academic year in 2026-27. We will list the known changes for Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, and the NAIA below. This list will not include previous years’ changes from 2024-25 or earlier realignment moves. We also have a companion article showing the current membership in 2025-26, along with future changes for every conference in the NCAA and NAIA.

New for this year is a realignment dashboard that lets you choose between the academic year in question. If you just want the good ol’ fashioned table with all the moves like previous editions, click here. Also included in this year’s installment are all individual sports changes for a school when it makes a full membership change. This provides a more accurate accounting of the final tally. As always, this list is subject to change frequently, and some entries may be removed if a school decides to keep one of its sports in its current conference.

The table below shows each school, sport(s), previous conference, new conference, first season in new conference, and change type (conference change, sport added, or sport discontinued) in separate columns. Clicking the hyperlink in the new conference for the school (4th column in the table) will take you directly to the day of the update. An external link to the news is provided in the 5th column called “First Season in New Conference”. A search function is provided below the table name, and the table is limited to 50 entries at a time due to the large number of entries. An (M) or (W) denotes whether the sport listed is men’s or women’s. Columns “Team”, “Sport(s)”, “Old Conference”, and “Change Type” can be sorted. For mobile users, you can scroll to the right to find additional columns shown in the table.