Champions

Year	Champion
2012	Auténticos Tigres UANL (Nuevo León)
2013	Pumas CU UNAM (Mexico City)
2014	Pumas CU UNAM (Mexico City)
2015	Auténticos Tigres UANL (Nuevo León)
2016	Auténticos Tigres UANL (Nuevo León)
2017	Pumas CU UNAM (Mexico City)
2018	Auténticos Tigres UANL (Nuevo León)
2019	Burros Blancos IPN (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)

Report

Since the last restructuring of Mexican College Football in 2012, the ONEFA Big 8 Conference (The highest in the country) has been dominated by Auténticos Tigres from UA Nuevo León in Monterrey (four times winners) and Pumas CU UNAM from Mexico City (3 times winners) with only Burros Blancos (White Donkeys) from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City upsetting the big two in 2019.

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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