Conference Summary
| Overall | Bowls | SRS | Polls | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Conference | Schs | G | W | L | Pct | G | W | L | Pct | SRS | SOS | Pre | Final | Champion |
| 1 | Southeastern Conference | 14 | 180 | 107 | 73 | .594 | 10 | 8 | 2 | .800 | 7.97 | 4.19 | 6 | 5 | LSU |
| 2 | Big Ten Conference | 14 | 179 | 102 | 77 | .570 | 9 | 4 | 5 | .444 | 7.20 | 4.51 | 7 | 6 | Ohio State |
| 3 | Big 12 Conference | 10 | 128 | 71 | 57 | .555 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 5.84 | 3.45 | 3 | 3 | Oklahoma |
| 4 | Pac-12 Conference | 12 | 153 | 83 | 70 | .542 | 7 | 4 | 3 | .571 | 4.99 | 3.61 | 5 | 2 | Oregon |
| 5 | American Athletic Conference | 12 | 153 | 87 | 66 | .569 | 7 | 4 | 3 | .571 | 2.92 | 0.96 | 1 | 4 | Memphis |
| 6 | Atlantic Coast Conference | 14 | 181 | 97 | 84 | .536 | 11 | 4 | 7 | .364 | 2.03 | 0.94 | 2 | 1 | Clemson |
| 7 | Mountain West Conference | 12 | 154 | 84 | 70 | .545 | 7 | 4 | 3 | .571 | -2.55 | -3.18 | 0 | 2 | Boise State |
| 8 | Sun Belt Conference | 10 | 127 | 66 | 61 | .520 | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | -2.99 | -3.19 | 0 | 1 | Appalachian State |
| 9 | Independent | 6 | 76 | 34 | 42 | .447 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .667 | -6.45 | -3.97 | 1 | 1 | |
| 10 | Conference USA | 14 | 178 | 84 | 94 | .472 | 8 | 3 | 5 | .375 | -6.85 | -5.24 | 0 | 0 | Florida Atlantic |
| 11 | Mid-American Conference | 12 | 153 | 70 | 83 | .458 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .429 | -7.14 | -5.20 | 0 | 0 | Miami (OH) |
Consensus All-Americans