Most of the 130 FBS schools are members of an FBS conference , but there are also a small number of independent schools . Since the Western Athletic Conference discontinued football sponsorship prior to the 2013 season , there have been ten conferences in the FBS . All of the FBS conferences have between ten and fourteen members , although independent Notre Dame has a scheduling agreement with the fourteen-member ACC . The ten conferences are split into two groups for the purposes of the College Football Playoff . The " Power Five conferences " consist of most of the largest and best-known college athletic programs in the country . A school from one of the Power Five conferences won every BCS National Championship Game ( which operated from 1999 to 2014 ) , and has won every College Football Playoff National Championship . The remaining five conferences are known as the " Group of Five . " Any conference may split its teams into two divisions , and only the Big 12 Conference does not use divisions . As of the 2018 season , all conferences hold a championship game that determines the conference champion . The Sun Belt was the last conference to launch a championship game , as well as the most recent to split into divisions for football , with both the title game and the divisional alignment debuting in 2018 . That conference chose to form football divisions despite having only 10 football members
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