Intercollegiate athletics (1983: Doomsday)

More than 25 years after Doomsday, intercollegiate athletics are finally regaining interest and prominence in North America.

In the pre-Doomsday United States, college sports, particularly football and men's basketball, garnered high interest; in some areas the teams' following and popularity rivaled, or surpassed, professional football and basketball.

Club teams from colleges and universities throughout the former United States and Canada have competed against one another and against amateur and semi-professional teams for the past two decades. Only in the past five years have economic conditions and travel improved to the point where schools could seriously discuss competing against one another on a regional scale.

The first such conference to be formed post-Doomsday was the Vermont Intercollegiate Athetic Association, which will begin its first season in August, 2010. Eight member institutions from Vermont, Aroostook and former New York State will compete in 12 sports. Institutions from Canada and former Pennsylvania have expressed interest in joining in the next few years.

The Southeastern Conference is a proposed revival of a collegiate sports conference which, pre-Doomsday, consisted of member universities from the southern United States. Schools from Kentucky, East Tennessee, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, the Virginian Republic, Cape Girardeau, Hot Springs and North and South Florida have already scheduled one another for the 2010-11 season; the SEC would merely formally group the bigger schools into a "Division One" and the smaller schools into a "Division Two". Twelve sports would be sanctioned initially, with more to be added in future seasons.

Schools from West Texas, eastern Texas, Louisiana, the Rio Grande Valley and former Mississippi and Oklahoma, plus the Navajo Nation, are discussing forming their own conference. These schools would compete against First Division schools in Mexico.

Brigham Young University in Utah continues to push for a conference consisting of schools from the member states of the North American Union. It also has games scheduled against some of the Texas schools and against the University of Victoria.