Great West Football Conference
Data
Classification	NCAA Division I-AA
Established	2004
Members	5
Sports fielded	1 (football)
Region	Midwest and West
States	4 – California, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah
Headquarters	Elmhurst, Illinois
Commissioner	Ed Grom
Locations

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History, Background and Reorganization

St. Mary's College (CA) was slated to join the conference but then dropped football prior to the 2004 season. Northern Colorado also joined the Big Sky for all sports in the 2006 season. The conference's first season was 2004. Cal Poly won the conference title in 2004 and tied with UC Davis for the title in 2005. In 2005 Cal Poly was the conference's first participant in the I-AA tournament. Saint Marys College of California is a private, coeducational college located in Moraga, California. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

There has been speculation of the conference dissolving if NDSU and SDSU leave for the Gateway Football Conference. There are replacement expansion candidates including University of North Dakota, University of South Dakota, University of San Diego, and Sacramento State. The ultimate goal of the conference would be to get an automatic bid to the Division I playoffs.

Members

As of the Fall, 2006 academic year, the members of the Great West Football Conference are:

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Conference facilities

Mustang Stadium is a 8,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. ... The Fargodome is an indoor stadium located in Fargo, North Dakota. ... Coughlin-Alumni Stadium is a 16,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Brookings, South Dakota. ... Eccles Coliseum is an 8,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Cedar City, Utah. ... UC Davis Stadium is a 15,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Davis, California. ...

Notes

External link

• Official conference website

California Polytechnic State University, commonly called Cal Poly, is a public university located adjacent to San Luis Obispo, California. ... North Dakota State University (NDSU) is a public university in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. It is the second largest school in the eleven campus North Dakota University System. ... South Dakota State University is the largest university in the U.S. state of South Dakota, located in Brookings. ... Southern Utah University, or SUU, is located in Cedar City, Utah. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ...