List of college athletics championship game outcomes


The National Collegiate Athletic Association, founded in 1906, is the major governing body for intercollegiate athletics in the United States and currently conducts national championships in its sponsored sports, except for the top level of football. Before the NCAA offered a championship for any particular sport, intercollegiate national championships in that sport were determined independently. Although the NCAA sometimes lists these historic championships in its official records, it has not awarded retroactive championship titles.
Prior to NCAA inception of a sport, intercollegiate championships were conducted and usually espoused in advance as competitions for the national championship. Many winners were recognized in contemporary newspapers and other publications as the "national intercollegiate" champions. These are not to be confused with the champions of early 20th-century single-sport alliances of northeastern U.S. colleges that were named "Intercollegiate League" or "Intercollegiate Association." These leagues generally included some of the colleges that later became the Ivy League, as well as an assortment of other northeastern universities.
Even after the NCAA began organizing national championships, some non-NCAA organizations conducted their own national championship tournaments, usually as a supplement to the NCAA events. A notable example is that of NCAA Division III men's volleyball. Although the NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship, established in 1970, was in theory open to D-III schools, none had received a berth in that tournament. As a result, a separate championship event, open only to D-III schools, was created in 1997. That event was discontinued after its 2011 edition once the NCAA announced it would sponsor an official Division III championship starting in 2012.
The historical championship event outcomes included in the primary list section were decided by actual games organized for the purpose of determining a champion on the field of play. Lists of other championships for collegiate athletic organizations are referenced in later sections. It does not include Helms Athletic Foundation or Premo-Porretta Power Poll selections, which were awarded retrospectively.

Championship game outcomes prior/concurrent to NCAA inception

Men's teams

Baseball

  • 1893 Yale def. Amherst, 9–0
''NCAA from 1947.''

Basketball

NCAA from 1939.

Boxing

''NCAA from 1932–1960.''

Cross country

Inter-Collegiate Cross Country Association

Inter-Collegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America
  • 1899 Cornell
  • 1900 Cornell
  • 1901 Yale
  • 1902 Cornell
  • 1903 Cornell
  • 1904 Cornell
  • 1905 Cornell
  • 1906 Cornell
  • 1907 Cornell
  • 1908 Cornell
  • 1909 Cornell
  • 1910 Cornell
  • 1911 Cornell
  • 1912 Harvard
  • 1913 Cornell
  • 1914 Cornell
  • 1915 Maine
  • 1916 Cornell
  • 1917 Pennsylvania
  • 1918 not held
  • 1919 Syracuse
  • 1920 Cornell
  • 1921 Cornell
  • 1922 Syracuse
  • 1923 Syracuse
  • 1924 Pittsburgh
  • 1925 Syracuse
  • 1926 Penn State
  • 1927 Penn State
  • 1928 Penn State
  • 1929 Pennsylvania
  • 1930 Penn State
  • 1931 Harvard
  • 1932 Manhattan
  • 1933 Michigan State
  • 1934 Michigan State
  • 1935 Michigan State
  • 1936 Michigan State
  • 1937 Michigan State
''NCAA from 1938.''

Fencing

Intercollegiate Fencing Association
Team Foils1894 Harvard1895 Harvard1896 Harvard1897 Harvard1898 Columbia1899 Harvard1900 Harvard1901 Navy1902 Army1903 Army1904 Army1905 Navy1906 Army1907 Navy1908 Army1909 Army1910 Navy1911 Cornell1912 Army1913 Columbia1914 Columbia1915 Navy1916 Navy1917 Navy1918 Columbia1919 Columbia1920 Navy1921 Navy1922 Navy
Three-Weapon Championship1923 Army †1924 Navy1925 tie: Yale, Navy1926 Yale1927 Army1928 Yale1929 Yale1930 tie: Yale, Army1931 Army1932 Yale1933 New York Univ.1934 Columbia1935 New York Univ.1936 New York Univ.1937 New York Univ.1938 New York Univ.1939 Navy1940 New York Univ.1941 New York Univ.1942 New York Univ.1943 Navy1944–47 not held
† The first IFA three-weapon trophy was awarded in 1923. However, all three weapons were contested in the IFA tournament as early as 1920.
''NCAA 1941–42 and from 1947.''

Football

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has never conducted a national championship event at the highest level of college football, currently its Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Neither has the NCAA ever officially endorsed an FBS national champion. Since 1978, it has held a championship playoff at the next lower level of college play. Prior to 1978, no divisions separated teams, and champions were independently designated by "selectors," composed of individuals and third-party organizations using experts, polls, and mathematical methods. These efforts have continued and thrived for the higher FBS level. From the beginning, the selectors' choices have frequently been at odds with each other. The NCAA has documented both contemporaneous and retroactive choices of several major national selectors in its official NCAA Football Records Book. These selections are often claimed as championships by individual schools.

Golf

1897–1938
See Pre-NCAA college golf champions
''NCAA from 1939.''

Gymnastics

  • 1899 No team title. Yale gymnasts won 4 out of 6 individual events, shared a tie for victory in one event and also won the individual all-around. 19 schools participated.
  • 1900 Columbia def. 2nd place Yale, 26 – 17
  • 1901 Yale def. 2nd place Columbia, 20 – 14
  • 1902 Yale def. 2nd-place Columbia, 16 – 15
  • 1917 Chicago def. 2nd-place Haverford, 14½ – 10
  • 1918 not held
  • 1919 not held
  • 1925 Navy def. Chicago, 33 – 12, in a dual meet between winners of the Intercollegiate and Western Conference championship meets.
  • 1944 Penn State won the National AAU team title during a five-year hiatus in the NCAA championships for World War II.
''NCAA from 1938.''

Ice hockey

  • Amateur Athletic Union conducted annual National Ice Hockey Championships during 1931–1948, except during most of the World War II years. College teams won the championship on at least two occasions:
''NCAA from 1948.''

Lacrosse

  • 1881 Harvard def. Princeton, 3–0
  • 1912 Harvard def. Swarthmore, 7–3
  • 1921 Lehigh def. Syracuse, 3–1
''NCAA from 1971.''

Rifle

'''National Rifle Association'''
National Indoor Intercollegiate Match
1924–79
In the contemporary press, the type of competition utilized for this match was referred to as "shoulder-to-shoulder." This distinguished it from the "telegraphic" or "postal" form of competition.1924 US Naval Academy1925 US Naval Academy1926 US Naval Academy1927 George Washington1928 * George Washington1929 Iowa1930 US Naval Academy1931 US Naval Academy1932 Cincinnati1933 Minnesota1934 US Naval Academy1935 US Naval Academy1936 Carnegie Institute of Tech. 1937 US Naval Academy1938 George Washington1939 US Naval Academy1940 Iowa1941 Minnesota1942 US Military Academy1943–45 No competition1946 † Iowa1947 Maryland1948 US Naval Academy1949 Maryland1950 US Military Academy1951 MIT1952 California1953 Maryland1954 Maryland1955 California1956 Nevada-Reno1957 California1958 California1959 California1960 Oregon State1961 West Virginia1962 Oregon State1963 The Citadel1964 West Virginia1965 US Military Academy1966 West Virginia1967 US Naval Academy1968 tie: Murray State, Montana State1969 US Naval Academy1970 Murray State1971 Tennessee Tech1972 Tennessee Tech1973 Tennessee Tech1974 East Tennessee State1975 US Military Academy1976 Texas Christian1977 Tennessee Tech1978 Murray State1979 Tennessee Tech
''NCAA from 1980.''
NRA Intercollegiate League
1909–22
Competition was held in telegraphic form using the indoor ranges of each competing school.1909 Washington State1910 Washington State1911 Iowa1912 Massachusetts Agricultural1913 West Virginia1914 Michigan Agricultural1915 Washington State1916 Michigan Agricultural1917 Michigan Agricultural1918 Iowa1919 Pennsylvania1920 Norwich1921 Norwich1922 Pennsylvania
National Outdoor Intercollegiate Match
1905 – ?
Matches were initially held at Sea Girt, New Jersey; after several years Camp Perry, Ohio, became the perennial venue.1905 Princeton1906 George Washington1907 not held1908 George Washington1909 George Washington1910 Massachusetts Agricultural191119121913 Massachusetts Agricultural1914 Massachusetts Agricultural1915 MIT1916 Norwich19171918191919201921 US Naval Academy1922 Univ. of Dayton19231924 Columbia1925– ?
  • end date unknown

Skiing

1921–53
Beginning in 1921, an intercollegiate winter sports championship was held annually at Lake Placid, New York, and involved colleges from the US and Canada. It combined events from downhill and slalom skiing, cross-country [skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing], and ski jumping, as well as speed skating, figure skating, and snowshoeing in some years. The overall winning team received the President Harding Trophy. Prior to the 1940s, in end-of-year accounts of national sporting champions, major newspapers regarded the winning team at Lake Placid as intercollegiate champion.
In the late 1930s, a major annual "four-way" intercollegiate event began in Sun Valley, Idaho. From the start it attracted not only college teams from the West, but also strong teams that traditionally participated in the Lake Placid meet, such as Dartmouth. After interruption by World War II, it usurped the older event.
Newspaper coverage referred to the 1946 and 1947 Sun Valley winners as national champions. A few days earlier than the 1947 Sun Valley meet, a similar skiing competition was held in Aspen, Colorado, overlapping the start date of the Sun Valley event. In 1948 and 1949, Aspen, rather than Sun Valley, hosted the national "four-way" intercollegiate ski championships.
All of these competitions were held in the middle of the ski season rather than at the end. Then in 1950, an official annual post-season national championship event was established. This event served to influence the NCAA to add skiing as a sponsored sport, with the first NCAA title event occurring in 1954.
The Intercollegiate Ski Union, a conference of schools primarily in the Northeast, also conducted annual championship events for its members. However, its geographic reach was more limited than the other competitions described.
Lake Placid, New York1921–22 Dartmouth1922–23 Dartmouth1923–24 Dartmouth1924–25 Williams College1925–26 tie: Wisconsin, New Hampshire
'1926–27 New Hampshire1927–28 Wisconsin1928–29 New Hampshire1929–30 Dartmouth1930–31 Dartmouth1931–32 New Hampshire1932–33 New Hampshire †1933–34 Dartmouth1934–35 Dartmouth1935–36 Dartmouth1936–37 cancelled, lack of snow1937–38 Dartmouth1938–39 McGill Univ. 1939–40 Middlebury1940–41 New Hampshire1941–42 team point title not awarded ‡1942–43 Middlebury1943–44 Dartmouth #1944–45 Dartmouth1945–46 not held 1946–47 St. Lawrence Univ. §1947–48 St. Lawrence Univ. §1948–49 team point title not awarded ♦1949–50 cancelled, lack of snow1950–51 cancelled, not enough entries
Sun Valley, Idaho1937–38 Dartmouth1938–39 no apparent team title 1939–40 Washington1940–41 Washington1941–42 Washington1942–46 not held1946–47 Utah1947–48 Middlebury
Aspen, Colorado1947–48 Western State §1948–49 Middlebury1949–50 Denver
Post-Season National Championship1950 Dartmouth '1951 Denver '1952 Denver '1953 Washington State
''NCAA from 1954.''

Soccer

During the periods 1926–35 and 1946–58, annual champions were selected by collegiate soccer associations based on regular season records. All are considered unofficial. For the period of 1936–45, each year's outstanding teams claim unofficial national championships. See also Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association.
The Soccer Bowl attempted to settle the national championship on the field for the 1949, 1950 and 1951 seasons. The Soccer Bowl championship games were played in January, 1950; January, 1951; and February, 1952, respectively.
''NCAA from 1959.''

Tennis

1883–1945
See Collegiate individual tennis champions
''NCAA from 1946.''

Tennis (indoor)

Intercollegiate Tennis Association
  • 1929 Lehigh
  • 1930 Lehigh
  • 1931 Yale
  • 1973 Stanford
  • 1974 Not held
  • 1975 Stanford
  • 1976 Stanford
  • 1977 Trinity
  • 1978 Stanford
  • 1979 SMU
  • 1980 California
  • 1981 Not held
  • 1982 Pepperdine
  • 1983 SMU
  • 1984 UCLA
  • 1985 Stanford
  • 1986 Pepperdine
  • 1987 Southern California
  • 1988 Southern California
  • 1989 California
  • 1990 Stanford
  • 1991 UCLA
  • 1992 Stanford
  • 1993 UCLA
  • 1994 Stanford
  • 1995 Stanford
  • 1996 UCLA
  • 1997 UCLA
  • 1998 Stanford
  • 1999 UCLA
  • 2000 Stanford
  • 2001 UCLA
  • 2002 Stanford
  • 2003 Illinois
  • 2004 Illinois
  • 2005 Baylor
  • 2006 Georgia
  • 2007 Georgia
  • 2008 Virginia
  • 2009 Virginia
  • 2010 Virginia
  • 2011 Virginia
  • 2012 Southern California
  • 2013 Virginia
  • 2014 Ohio State
  • 2015 Oklahoma
  • 2016 North Carolina
  • 2017 Virginia
  • 2018 Wake Forest
  • 2019 Ohio State
  • 2020 Southern California
  • 2021 North Carolina
  • 2022 TCU
  • 2023 TCU
  • 2024 Ohio State
  • 2025 Wake Forest

Track and field (indoor)

Amateur Athletic Union
Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America
  • 1918 Pennsylvania
  • 1923 Pennsylvania
  • 1924 Pennsylvania
  • 1925 Georgetown
  • 1926 Harvard
  • 1927 Harvard
  • 1928 Cornell
  • 1929 New York Univ.
  • 1930 Cornell, Pennsylvania
  • 1931 Pennsylvania
  • 1932 New York Univ.
  • 1933 Yale
  • 1934 Manhattan
  • 1935 Manhattan
  • 1936 Manhattan
  • 1937 Columbia
  • 1938 Columbia
  • 1939 Manhattan
  • 1940 New York Univ.
  • 1941 Fordham
  • 1942 Penn State
  • 1943 New York Univ.
  • 1944 Army
  • 1945 Army
  • 1946 not held
  • 1947 New York Univ.
  • 1948 New York Univ.
  • 1949 Michigan State
  • 1950 Michigan State
  • 1951 Manhattan
  • 1952 Manhattan
  • 1953 Manhattan
  • 1954 Yale
  • 1955 Manhattan
  • 1956 Manhattan
  • 1957 Villanova
  • 1958 Villanova
  • 1959 Penn State
  • 1960 Villanova
  • 1961 Yale
  • 1962 Villanova
  • 1963 Villanova
  • 1964 Villanova
''NCAA from 1965.''

Track and field (outdoor)

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America
  • 1876 Princeton
  • 1877 Columbia
  • 1878 Columbia
  • 1879 Columbia
  • 1880 Harvard
  • 1881 Harvard
  • 1882 Harvard
  • 1883 Harvard
  • 1884 Harvard
  • 1885 Harvard
  • 1886 Harvard
  • 1887 Yale
  • 1888 Harvard
  • 1889 Yale
  • 1890 Harvard
  • 1891 Harvard
  • 1892 Harvard
  • 1893 Yale
  • 1894 Yale
  • 1895 Yale
  • 1896 Yale
  • 1897 Pennsylvania
  • 1898 Pennsylvania
  • 1899 Pennsylvania
  • 1900 Pennsylvania
  • 1901 Harvard
  • 1902 Yale
  • 1903 Yale
  • 1904 Yale *
  • 1905 Cornell
  • 1906 Cornell
  • 1907 Pennsylvania
  • 1908 Cornell
  • 1909 Harvard
  • 1910 Pennsylvania
  • 1911 Cornell
  • 1912 Pennsylvania
  • 1913 Pennsylvania †
  • 1914 Cornell
  • 1915 Cornell
  • 1916 Cornell
  • 1917 not held
  • 1918 Cornell
  • 1919 Cornell
  • 1920 Pennsylvania
* University of Chicago won the 1904 Olympic Games collegiate championship meet, defeating Princeton, Illinois, Michigan State and Colgate.
† A contemporary source states, as part of an "international athletic games" in Chicago on June 28 – July 6, 1913, "The national intercollegiate track and field meet was won by the University of Michigan," with Southern California second and Chicago third.
''NCAA from 1921.''

Trampoline

Until 1969, men's trampoline was one of the events that comprised the NCAA gymnastics championships. The NCAA continued to bestow a national title in trampoline for two years. For several years, there was an annual membership vote on whether to remove it as an NCAA competition, resulting in removal by 1971.
  • 1969 Michigan
  • 1970 Michigan
''Discontinued after 1970.''

Volleyball

United States Volleyball Association
NCAA from 1970.
Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship Tournament
This was a championship solely for NCAA Division III schools. It was discontinued after its 2011 edition when the NCAA announced it would organize an official Division III championship starting in 2012.
''NCAA from 2012.''

Water polo

  • 1913 Princeton 3, Illinois 1
''NCAA from 1969.''

Wrestling

''NCAA from 1928.''

Women's teams

AIAW Champions in 16 NCAA Sports

See AIAW Champions for listings of pre-NCAA champions for most of the current NCAA women's sports.

Basketball

See DGWS/AIAW Basketball Champions
NCAA from 1982.
The Amateur Athletic Union has since 1926 conducted United States championship tournaments for women's amateur teams. On 28 occasions, small college teams have won the AAU women's basketball championship:

Bowling

United States Bowling Congress
Year and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and Champion
1975 Wichita State1984 Indiana State1993 William Paterson 2002 Morehead State2011 Maryland Eastern Shore2020 cancelled
1976 San Jose State1985 West Texas State1994 Wichita State2003 Central Missouri State2012 Webber International2021 Wichita State
1977 Wichita State1986 Wichita State1995 Nebraska2004 Pikeville 2013 Maryland Eastern Shore2022 Stephen F. Austin
1978 Wichita State1987 West Texas State1996 West Texas State2005 Wichita State2014 Robert Morris-Illinois2023 McKendree
1979 Penn State1988 West Texas State1997 Nebraska2006 Lindenwood 2015 North Carolina A&T2024 Wichita State
1980 Erie Community College 1989 Morehead State 1998 Morehead State2007 Wichita State2016 Webber International2025 Jacksonville State
1981 Arizona State1990 Wichita State1999 Nebraska2008 Pikeville2017 McKendree 2026
1982 Erie Community College1991 Nebraska2000 Morehead State2009 Wichita State2018 Lindenwood2027
1983 West Texas State1992 West Texas State2001 Nebraska2010 Webber International 2019 Robert Morris–Illinois2028

The NCAA from 2004 has sponsored a women's team championship, apart from the USBC national championships. There were 80 schools in all divisions participating in NCAA bowling as of April, 2018.

Fencing

Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
Until 1974, schools from the states of New York and New Jersey won every foil team title.
YearFoil TeamYearFoil TeamYearFoil Team
1929New York University1946Hunter College1963Fairleigh Dickinson
1930New York University1947Hunter College1964Paterson State College
1931New York University1948Hunter College1965Paterson State College
1932New York University1949New York University1966Paterson State College
1933New York University1950New York University1967Cornell
1934Brooklyn College1951New York University1968Cornell
1935Hunter College1952Hunter College1969Cornell
1936Hunter College1953Hunter College1970Hunter College
1937Hunter College1954Elmira College1971New York University
1938New York University1955Rochester Institute of Technology1972Cornell
1939Hofstra University1956Paterson State College1973Cornell
1940Hunter College1957Rochester Institute of Technology1974California State-Fullerton
1941Brooklyn College1958Paterson State College1975San Jose State
1942Jersey City State College1959Paterson State College1976San Jose State
1943Jersey City State College1960Fairleigh Dickinson1977San Jose State
1944Hunter College1961Paterson State College1978San Jose State
1945Brooklyn College1962Paterson State College1979San Jose State

''AIAW 1980–82. NCAA 1982–89, from 2026. NCAA (Coed) 1990–2025.''

Ice hockey

American Women's College Hockey Alliance
Year and Champion
1998 New Hampshire
1999 Harvard
2000 Minnesota

''NCAA from 2001.''

Rifle

National Rifle Association
Year and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and Champion
192? unknown start date1928 George Washington1934 Washington
1923 Washington1929 ?1935 Carnegie Tech
1924 Washington1930 ?1936 Carnegie Tech
1925 Washington1931 ?1937 Carnegie Tech
1926 ?1932 Maryland1938–46?
1947 Penn State
1927 George Washington1933 Washington1948–53?
1954 Monmouth

NCAA (Coed) from 1980.
''Pre-NCAA Coed Rifle: see above''

Rowing

The National Women's Rowing Association sponsored an annual open eights national championship from 1971 to 1979, among college and non-college teams. During this period, only in 1973 and 1975 did a college team win the national eights championship outright. According to US Rowing Association, contemporary news reports in 1976 and 1977 do not mention a national collegiate title. Beginning in 1980, the NWRA sponsored the Women's Collegiate National Championship, including varsity eights. In 1986 the NWRA dissolved after recognizing US Rowing's assuming of responsibility as the national governing body for women's rowing.
NWRA Open National Championship, Eights top college finishers, 1971–1979 :
NWRA / US Rowing Women's Collegiate National Championship, Varsity eights :
Year and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and Champion
1980 California1985 Washington1989 Cornell1993 Princeton
1981 Washington1986 Wisconsin1990 Princeton1994 Princeton
1982 Washington *1987 Washington1991 Boston University1995 Princeton
1983 Washington1988 Washington1992 Boston University1996 Brown
1984 Washington1988 Washington1992 Boston University1996 Brown

* simultaneous AIAW championship, the only one conducted
Followed by NCAA from 1997, in which women currently compete in a Varsity 8, a Second Varsity 8, and a Varsity Four.

Beach volleyball

American Volleyball Coaches Association, Collegiate Nationals
YearChampion
2006multi-school pair
2007Nebraska
2008Texas
2009USC
2010Loyola Marymount
2011multi-school pair
2012Pepperdine
2013Long Beach State
2014Pepperdine
2015USC

''NCAA from 2016.''

Tennis (indoor)

Intercollegiate Tennis Association
YearChampionYearChampionYearChampionYearChampion
1988Florida1999Florida2010Northwestern2021North Carolina
1989Stanford2000Stanford2011Stanford2022North Carolina
1990Stanford2001Stanford2012UCLA2023North Carolina
1991Florida2002Georgia2013North Carolina2024Oklahoma State
1992Florida2003Duke2014Duke2025Georgia
1993Stanford2004Stanford2015North Carolina2026
1994Georgia2005Stanford2016California2027
1995Georgia2006Stanford2017Florida2028
1996Florida2007Georgia Tech2018North Carolina2029
1997Florida2008Georgia Tech2019Georgia2030
1998Stanford2009Northwestern2020North Carolina2031

Track and field (outdoor)

Women's National Collegiate and Scholastic Track Association
Telegraphic meets conducted during specified dates each May
YearChampion
1922?
1923Winthrop College
1924Iowa
1925Winthrop College
1926Humboldt State College
1927?

Amateur Athletic Union
The AAU conducted senior women's national track and field championships for all athletes, both indoors and outdoors, beginning in the 1920s. Two college teams won numerous championships in each sport against other clubs from throughout the country.
Tuskegee Institute won the AAU national title 14 times in 1937–1942 and 1944–1951. Tennessee State won national outdoors 13 times in 1955–1960, 1962, 1963, 1965–1967, 1969 and 1978.

Track and field (indoor)

Amateur Athletic Union
Tuskegee Institute won the AAU national indoor championships four times in 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948. Tennessee State won the national title 14 times in 1956–1960, 1962, 1965–1969 and 1978–1980.

Water polo

USA Water Polo
Year and ChampionYear and ChampionYear and Champion
1984 UC Davis1990 UC San Diego1996 UCLA
1985 Stanford1991 UC San Diego1997 UCLA
1986 UC San Diego1992 UC San Diego1998 UCLA
1987 UC Santa Barbara1993 UC Davis1999 USC
1988 UC Davis1994 UC San Diego2000 UCLA
1989 UC Santa Barbara1995 Slippery Rock 2000 UCLA

''NCAA from 2001.''