Champions

Year	Champions
1981	Águilas Blancas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
1982	Águilas Blancas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
1983	Cóndores UNAM
1984	Cóndores UNAM
1985	Cóndores UNAM
1986	Cóndores UNAM
1987	Osos Acatlán UNAM
1988	Águilas Blancas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
1989	Pieles Rojas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
1990	Cóndores UNAM
1991	Cóndores UNAM
1992	Águilas Blancas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
1993	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
1994	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
1995	Aztecas UDLAP (Puebla)
1996	Aztecas UDLAP (Puebla)
1997	Aztecas UDLAP (Puebla)
1998	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
1999	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2000	Borregos Salvajes CEM-ITESM
2001	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2002	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2003	Borregos Salvajes CEM-ITESM (Estado de Mexico)
2004	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2005	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2006	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2007	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM
2008	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM

Report

The ONEFA Mexican College Football Championship changed in 1981 to create a Metropolitan “Big 10” (Centre) and “National” (North and South) Conferences, with the National being the Ascenso or Promotion Conference and the Big 10 being the Major League.

The Águilas Blancas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute) won four Big 10 Championships between 1981 and 2008 after which three equal Conferences were created. Cóndores UNAM won six Championhips over this period, Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM eleven Championships, Aztecas UDLAP (Puebla) three and Borregos Salvajes CEM-ITESM (EdoMex) once.

Two Colleges won the title once: from the National Conference (the only winner from that Conference), Pieles Rojas IPN (National Polytechnic Institute), and Osos Acatlán UNAM where the Irish Institute is based in Naucalpan.

On only one occasion the did the Big 10 Champions not go on to win the National Championship during this time: Borregos Salvajes Monterrey ITESM in 1998 who lost out to Lobos UAdeC (Coahuila), the “National” Conference Champion being the only National Champion from 1981 to 2008. There was also no National Championship in 1999 and 2001-2002, with just the “Big 10” and “National” Conference Champions.

The ONEFA College Football Championship is one of the highlights of the Mexican American Football season, and was considered the National Championship from 1933 until recently. There was a single Championship from 1930 to 1981 when it was split into two Championships: Metropolitan (for the National Championship) and National (for Promotion/Ascent).

The Metropolitan Championship was renamed Big 10 in 1990 and Big 12 in 2004. In 2009 the Colleges agreed to merge the two Conferences into one, with two groups, each with its own Champion. In turn the “Centre” Conference would have two groups A & B each with its own Champion. The Conferences were realigned into “Centre”, “North” and “South”, each with its own Champion.

In 2012 a further restructuring took place, with ONEFA restoring the “Big 8”, mainly with teams from the Centre and the “National” with teams mainly from the North and South. In 2009 the ITESM Tech Colleges left to form their own College Football Organisation: CONADEIP.

References:

Images

[1] ONEFA (2020) ONEFA Logo [Internet] Available from: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/PpcJl5QlfPoMSO4T5EdZd4ou8LwusCaoqw0_cjYcC2_CTplUWHkQJTa9S-DKMPI-FrkqeXFWoppz6Rha95yr [Accessed 11 May 2020]

Websites

[2] ONEFA (2020) Historia [Internet] Available from: http://onefaoficial.org/historia [Accessed 20 September 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Francesco

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