Mid-South Conference

The Mid-South Conference (MSC) is an athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA. Member institutions are located in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The Mid-South Conference has nine full members: Campbellsville, Cumberland (TN), Cumberlands (KY), Georgetown College (KY), Lindsey Wilson, Life, Pikeville, Shawnee State, and Thomas More. Seven of these members sponsor football; Life and Shawnee State do not.

The Mid-South Conference also has six associate members that compete primarily in other conferences. Faulkner, Kentucky Christian, Union and recently former member Bluefield are associate members of the MSC for football, Bethel is an associate member of the MSC for football and track and field, and Reinhardt is an associate member of the MSC for football. This gave the conference 13 members for football. In the spring of 2016, the conference expanded to 20 members, adding the six football members of The Sun Conference, as well as Faulkner University for football, On January 4, 2018, the conference added Keiser University for football, and St. Thomas announced in July they would be joining the conference for football in 2019.

In April 2018, Thomas More University (then Thomas More College), which had been an NAIA member before moving to NCAA Division III in 1990, announced that it had been formally invited to rejoin the NAIA effective in 2019–20 as a member of the Mid-South Conference. The school, while acknowledging that it was considering this move, denied published reports that it had accepted the invitation. Thomas More eventually confirmed in July 2018 that it would join the Mid-South in 2019. Another Sun Conference member, St. Thomas in Miami Gardens, Florida also joined the MSC as an affiliate member for football in 2019.

The league is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and the commissioner is Eric Ward.

Full members

 * Cumberland (TN) — left the Mid-South in 2002, and re-joined in 2012.

Affiliate members
Beginning with the 2017 season, The Sun Conference and Mid-South merged its football conferences into the largest football conference in college sports. Edward Waters was previously a full member of the Sun Conference from 2006 to 2010 and a football affiliate member from 2014 to 2016 seasons. The divisions are divided below.
 * Bethel (TN) — left the Mid-South after the 1996 fall season (1996–97 season); later re-joined in the 2003 fall season (2003–04 season).

Sports
Member teams compete in 23 sports: 11 men's, 10 women's and 2 mixed.

Football divisions

 * Bluegrass Division
 * Bethel
 * Campbellsville
 * Cincinnati Christian
 * Cumberland (TN)
 * Georgetown
 * Kentucky Christian
 * Lindsey Wilson
 * Thomas More


 * Appalachian Division
 * Bluefield
 * Cumberlands (KY)
 * Pikeville
 * Point
 * Reinhardt
 * St Andrews
 * Union


 * Sun Division
 * Ave Maria
 * Edward Waters
 * Faulkner
 * Keiser
 * Southeastern
 * St. Thomas
 * Warner
 * Webber International