Big West Conference facts for kids
The Big West Conference is a sports group for colleges and universities in the NCAA. It's part of Division I, which is the highest level of college sports in the United States. The main office for the Big West Conference is in Irvine, California. Most of the schools in the conference are from California, with one school from Hawaii.
Schools in the Big West
The Big West Conference is made up of different colleges and universities where students play sports. All the schools in the Big West are public universities. Four of them are part of the University of California system, and four are part of the California State University system. The last school is the main campus of the University of Hawaii system.
Here are the schools that are members of the Big West Conference:
- California Polytechnic State University (often called "Cal Poly")
- California State University, Fullerton (known as "Cal State Fullerton")
- California State University, Northridge (called "Cal State Northridge")
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (known as "Hawaiʻi")
- California State University, Long Beach (called "Long Beach State")
- University of California, Davis (known as "UC Davis")
- University of California, Irvine (called "UC Irvine")
- University of California, Riverside (known as "UC Riverside")
- University of California, Santa Barbara (called "UC Santa Barbara")
Football in the Big West
The Big West Conference used to have football teams. However, the conference stopped sponsoring football in the year 2000. This means that the Big West Conference no longer has football games as part of its official sports.
Some schools that are part of the Big West Conference for other sports still play football. They just play in different conferences for football:
- Cal Poly and UC Davis play football in the Big Sky Conference.
- Hawaiʻi plays football in the Mountain West Conference.
See also
In Spanish: Big West Conference para niños
