List of college athletic programs in California

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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

Team	School	City	Conference	Football
Cal Poly Mustangs	California Polytechnic State University	San Luis Obispo	Big West[a 1]	Y FCS
Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners	California State University, Bakersfield	Bakersfield	WAC	N
Cal State Fullerton Titans	California State University, Fullerton	Fullerton	Big West	N
Cal State Northridge Matadors	California State University, Northridge	Northridge	Big West	N
California Golden Bears	California Berkeley !University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	Pac-12	Y FBS
Fresno State Bulldogs	California State University, Fresno	Fresno	Mountain West	Y FBS
Long Beach State 49ers	California State University, Long Beach	Long Beach	Big West	N
Loyola Marymount Lions	Loyola Marymount University	Los Angeles	West Coast	N
Pacific Tigers	Pacific !University of the Pacific	Stockton	West Coast	N
Pepperdine Waves	Pepperdine University	Malibu	West Coast	N
Sacramento State Hornets	California State University, Sacramento	Sacramento	Big Sky	Y FCS
Saint Mary's Gaels	Saint Mary's College of California	Moraga	West Coast	N
San Diego !San Diego Toreros	San Diego !University of San Diego	San Diego	West Coast[a 2]	Y FCS
San Diego State Aztecs	San Diego State University	San Diego	Mountain West	Y FBS
San Francisco Dons	San Francisco !University of San Francisco	San Francisco	West Coast	N
San Jose State Spartans	San José State University	San Jose	Mountain West	Y FBS
Santa Clara Broncos	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara	West Coast	N
Stanford Cardinal	Stanford University	Palo Alto	Pac-12	Y FBS
UC Davis Aggies	California Davis !University of California, Davis	Davis	Big West[a 1]	Y FCS
UC Irvine Anteaters	California Irvine !University of California, Irvine	Irvine	Big West	N
UC Riverside Highlanders	California Riverside !University of California, Riverside	Riverside	Big West	N
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos	California Santa Barbara !University of California, Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	Big West	N
UCLA Bruins	California Los Angeles !University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Pac-12	Y FBS
USC Trojans and Women of Troy	Southern California !University of Southern California	Los Angeles	Pac-12	Y FBS

Division II

Division III

NAIA

California Community College Athletic Association

NCCAA

See also

• List of NCAA Division I institutions
• List of NCAA Division II institutions
• List of NCAA Division III institutions
• List of NAIA institutions
• List of USCAA institutions
• List of NCCAA institutions