Athletic conferences similar to or like Ohio Valley Conference

Collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and will begin sponsoring football in 2022. Wikipedia

Collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the conference consists of fifteen member universities, each of whom compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports. Wikipedia

Collegiate athletic conference which operates in the western Midwestern United States. Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with three members in South Dakota, two members in North Dakota, and one member each in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. Wikipedia

Collegiate athletic conference affiliated at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II level which operates in the Southeastern United States. Formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State , Jacksonville State, Livingston (now West Alabama), Tennessee–Martin, and Troy State (now Troy). Wikipedia

Collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. Wikipedia

For other uses of Southeast(ern) Conference, see Southeastern Conference (disambiguation) American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Wikipedia