Automatic Qualifying conference

In college football, the Power Five conferences (or power conferences) are athletic conferences in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of collegiate football in the United States. The Power Five conferences are generally regarded as having the best college football teams in the country.

Prior to the establishment of the College Football Playoff, the power five conferences (as well as the old Big East Conference) were called "Automatic Qualifying (AQ)" conferences, because the champion of each conference received an automatic berth in one of the five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games. The final college football season for which the BCS was in effect was the 2013 season.

With the split of the old Big East, there are now five power conferences: the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, and Southeastern Conference (SEC). The power conferences make up five of the ten conferences in FBS; the other FBS conferences are known as the Group of Five. The FBS consists of the Power Five, the Group of Five, and a small number of independent schools.

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