A new divisional format is announced for the regular season.

This divisional format will be used for football starting in 2015.

The league's head coaches voted at the league's annual meeting on June 1, 2011 to eliminate the divisional format, starting with the 2011-12 season.

The Southern Conference split into a divisional format for basketball beginning with the 1994-95 season.

Initially, the divisional format was used in football, baseball, and men's basketball.

The divisional format was dropped for men's basketball following the 2011-2012 season.

In 2007, to cope with the growing number of teams, a divisional format was introduced to replace the old league format.

Due to large number of nations entering teams, a divisional format was introduced in 1988 for men and 1995 for women.

This was the league's second season with a divisional format and a championship game.

It was the first divisional format to be implemented in a major professional North American sports league.