Cal Poly Mustangs

The Cal Poly Mustangs (also Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly SLO) represent California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California in intercollegiate athletics. They field twenty teams including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field; women's-only indoor track, softball, and volleyball; and men's-only baseball, football, and wrestling. The Mustangs compete in NCAA Division I; they are primarily members of the Big West Conference and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, but the football team plays in the Big Sky Conference and the men's swimming and diving and wrestling teams are associate members in the Pacific 12 Conference.

Basketball
The Mustang basketball team had its most successful year in 2007, when the team came within one win in the Big West tournament of getting into the NCAA basketball tournament

Cross Country
The men's cross country team has finished in the top 25 in the nation four of the past five years. In 2012, Coach Mark Conover and his men's squad collected its second straight Big West Conference title and 12th in the past 15 seasons. Their last national placing was in 2008, when they finished 23rd at the National Cross Country Championships. Also in 2012, the women’s program nabbed its first Big West Conference crown since 2001.

Football
Mustang Football plays in the Big Sky Conference, competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. Prior to joining the Big Sky Conference in 2012, the team competed in the Great West Conference and is the first Great West Football Conference participant in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Each year Cal Poly plays rival UC Davis in the annual Battle for the Golden Horseshoe.

Soccer
The Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer team has had success in recent years. In 2008, Coach Paul Holocher led his team to a 3rd place in the Big West and a spot in the NCAA Division I tournament. They went on to beat UCLA and ended up losing to UC Irvine in the 2nd round. Cal Poly soccer has a strong fan base, averaging over 3,000 fans per match in 2010. In 2011, collegesoccernews.com chose Cal Poly vs. UC Santa Barbara as the No. 1 rivalry in college soccer. Since 2007, the rivalry matches have regularly drawn upwards of 8,000 fans to watch the matches.

Volleyball
The women's volleyball team has been one of the school's best sports programs in recent years and in the 1980s. In 2007 the team captured its second straight Big West title by posting a 15–1 conference record and a 23–8 record overall, and made it to the third round of the playoffs before losing to Stanford in the Sweet 16. The team also went 23–6 in 2006.

Wrestling
The wrestling program at Cal Poly competes as a member of the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12) which is traditionally one of the strongest conferences in college wrestling. Cal Poly has had two wrestlers (Tom Kline & Mark DiGirolamo) win the NCAA Wrestling Championship and 46 wrestlers earn All-American honors. In addition to the program's success at the NCAA Championships the program has crowned one champion at the National Collegiate Open Wrestling Championship.

Blue-Green rivalry - UC Santa Barbara
In the Blue-Green Rivalry the Cal Poly Mustangs and the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos compete in 16 sports. Each winner receives one point per win (regular season) with two points awarded to the series winner in baseball and softball, and the overall winner is announced each spring. Using games to promote the campuses' sustainability and recycling efforts is believed to be the first of its kind in college athletics. The rivalry fits the colors of sustainability (blue and green) as well as those of UCSB (blue) and Cal Poly (green).