List of college athletic programs in Texas
This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Texas.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
NCAA
Division I
- Houston will join the Big 12 Conference in 2023–24.
- Houston Baptist and Incarnate Word's men's soccer teams compete in the WAC. The latter team will move to that conference in 2022–23.
- Incarnate Word will join, and UT Arlington will rejoin, the WAC in 2022–23.
- Lamar is scheduled to rejoin the Southland Conference in 2023–24.
- North Texas, Rice, and UTSA will join the American Athletic Conference in 2023–24.
- Sam Houston will join Conference USA and transition to FBS football in 2023–24.
- Tarleton has begun its four-year transition to Division I in 2020–21. The football team competes in the WAC after the conference began sponsoring football again. The women's soccer team is to be added in 2022–23.
- Texas Tech uses "Lady Raiders" for women's sports teams that have men's counterparts, most notably women's basketball. "Red Raiders" is used in sports that are sponsored only for one sex, whether men or women.
- UTRGV announced its exploration to add a football team, with plans to begin play in 2024–25. Its affiliation is most likely the WAC in the FCS.
Division II
- Dallas Baptist's baseball team competes in Division I as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference.
- Texas A&M–Commerce is scheduled to join Division I Southland Conference in 2022–23, subject to approval for a transition.
Division III
- Austin, Southwestern, and Texas Lutheran's football teams compete in the American Southwest Conference. Southwestern's team will move to the Southern Athletic Association in 2022–23.
- As of 2021–22, St. Thomas is in the third year of a four-year transition to Division III and will become an active Division III member in 2023–24.
- Trinity's football team competes in the Southern Athletic Association.
NAIA
- North Texas–Dallas has planned to add baseball, men's and women's soccer, and softball at a later time.
- Texas A&M–San Antonio has planned to add men's and women's basketball in 2022–23.
- Texas College's football team competes in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
- Wiley will join the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in 2022–23.
NJCAA
NCCAA
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Arlington Baptist Patriots | Arlington Baptist University [lower-alpha 1] | Arlington | |
Dallas Christian Crusaders | Dallas Christian College | Dallas | |
Southwestern Adventist Knights | Southwestern Adventist University [lower-alpha 2] | Keene |
See also
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