The Oracle of Notre Dame

Welcome to the Oracle of Notre Dame! Please enter the names of two major college football teams, and the Oracle will find a conference connection between them:

(Here is a list of teams included, with the spellings used.)

Notes

You can use most of the typical, well-known abbreviations some teams have (for example, BYU for Brigham Young). Some abbreviations are ambiguous; if you enter one, the Oracle will ask you to spell the name out. If you are having trouble entering a team's name, please refer to the list of teams.
Notre Dame is not in the database, because it's never been in a football conference. (You see, the name of this site is sarcasm.)
None of the Ivy League schools has ever played football in another conference. Therefore, you cannot connect your school to Harvard or Yale. Sorry.
Two different teams from the same conference have one degree of separation. You really shouldn't need the Oracle of Notre Dame to tell you the conference connection between Ohio State and Michigan.
Here are some stats about the Oracle's data set.
The conference data before 2003 were downloaded from this site, courtesy David Wilson and James Howell. I supplied conference data for 2003 through 2013 myself. The latest change is Texas A&M's move to the SEC in 2012.
Only teams from major conferences are considered. The definition of major is whatever James Howell cared enough about to list in his data sheets.
Data not guaranteed to be accurate, nor complete.

FAQ

Why does the Oracle of Notre Dame return all results in past tense, even for future alignments?: We mortals have knowledge only of the past, but the Oracle's knowledge covers all time: past, present, and future. Like us, the Oracle uses the past tense to speak of time for which it has knowledge, which is all time.

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