Across the Bay Conference
The Across the Bay Conference is a high school football conference consisting of small high schools in northeastern Wisconsin. It was founded in 2022 and is affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
The Across the Bay Conference was formed in 2022 as part of the biannual realignment of Wisconsin's high school football conferences by the WIAA in conjunction with the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association. All eight original members were previously part of the Marinette & Oconto-Northern Lakes-Packerland Conference eight-player football conference, with six of the eight members playing in the conference's East Division. It was originally called the Peninsula Conference because of its proximity to the Door Peninsula, a name that was previously used by an athletic conference that existed from 1933 to 1970 in northeastern Wisconsin. In 2024, the Peninsula name was dropped and the conference was rechristened the Across the Bay Conference. Wausaukee was shifted to the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference as part of the realignment.For the 2026-27 competition cycle, the Across the Bay Conference is losing three schools to the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference, and the NEW Lutheran cooperative will be losing Oneida Nation to its own stand-alone football program. Two schools will be moving over from the Southeast 8-Player Football Conference to replace them, and the Across the Bay will be entering into a crossover scheduling alliance with the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference.
List of conference members
Current members
Future members
Former members
Membership timeline
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