1981 season

Conferences

Every league in a division, side by side. Per-game figures are the conference's total over its total games, not an average of its teams' averages.

Season

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	Conference	Teams	Games	W–L	PF/g	PA/g	Margin/g
1	Southwest	9	103	54–44	22.7	20.2	+2.5
2	Missouri Valley	8	87	45–40	21.2	19.1	+2.1
3	ACC	7	79	41–37	21.3	19.3	+1.9
4	Pac-10	10	114	58–54	23.1	21.2	+1.9
5	SEC	10	115	61–51	19.8	18.0	+1.8
6	Big 8	8	93	49–42	20.0	18.5	+1.5
7	FBS Independents	28	313	160–149	20.3	19.3	+1
8	Western Athletic	9	103	51–50	24.1	23.8	+0.3
9	Southern	7	76	37–35	19.6	19.4	+0.3
10	Big Ten	10	114	59–55	22.5	23.1	−0.6
11	Mid-American	10	111	51–58	16.5	17.6	−1.2
12	Southland	6	66	28–34	18.3	19.5	−1.2
13	PCAA	6	66	29–36	20.7	23.0	−2.3
14	Ivy	8	80	33–45	18.7	22.9	−4.3

All games count here, including non-conference and cross-division ones — a league that scheduled more guarantee games looks better for it. Records are overall, not conference-only.