1952 college football season
Conference Champion ( s ) Record
California Collegiate Athletic Association Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo 4-0
Central Church College Conference Concordia ( NE ) 3-0
Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association Virginia State 7-0
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Kansas State Teachers ( Emporia State ) 5-0
College Conference of Illinois Lake Forest Millikin 3-0-1
Evergreen Conference Pacific Lutheran 5-0-1
Far Western Conference Humboldt State College 3-0
Frontier Conference Carroll ( MT ) 4-0
Gulf Coast Conference North Texas State 2-0
Indiana Collegiate Conference Butler Valparaiso 3-1
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Buena Vista 2-1
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference McPherson 6-0
Lone Star Conference East Texas State Teachers 5-0
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion 5-0
Mid-American Conference Cincinnati 3-0
Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference Coe 6-0
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gustavus Adolphus Concordia-Moorhead 6-0
Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association Northeast Missouri State Northwest Missouri State 4-1
Nebraska College Conference Peru State 7-0
New Mexico Intercollegiate Conference Eastern New Mexico Panhandle A & M 4-1
Conference standings -- Minor conferences
The 1952 college football season ended with the unbeaten Michigan State Spartans (9-0) and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (12-0) each claiming a national championship from different polls. Michigan State finished first according to two of the wire service (AP and UP) polls, which both placed Georgia Tech second. Georgia Tech was first in the (Hearst chain) International News Service poll. UP and INS merged in 1958 to form UPI. Although the Spartans became members of the Big Ten Conference in 1950, full participation did not come until 1953, and under the terms of their entry into the conference, they were not allowed to participate in postseason play. Georgia Tech won the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day in New Orleans.