College football’s longest active conference title droughts

Which fans have been waiting the longest to celebrate a conference title? Here are the teams with the longest droughts in each college football conference.

Programs like Alabama, Ohio State, and Oklahoma are perennial conference contenders. Not every school, though, can be a powerhouse. Every conference has its group of teams that are rarely in the hunt for the championship. Once in a blue moon the school will contend for the league title, but even in those instances the usual storyline is one where the team falls just short. (Think, for instance, of Kansas in 2007.)

We often reward excellence, but don’t always acknowledge the loyalty through long years of suffering. This post is for the fans who have stuck by their teams through one lean season after another. Today we take a look at which team has been waiting the longest for a conference championship in each FBS league.

To determine which team has suffered the longest championship drought in each current conference, we assessed date of last title for all current FBS teams. This included titles won in conferences other than a team’s current league. This was also based on chronology, so teams that have never won a championship were considered based on the first year of play for the program.

Click ahead to learn which fan base has been waiting the longest to celebrate another league championship in each conference.