The Across the Bay Conference is a

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consisting of small high schools in northeastern

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. It was founded in 2022 and is affiliated with the

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History

The Across the Bay Conference was formed in 2022 as part of the biannual realignment of Wisconsin's high school football conferences by the WIAA in conjunction with the

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. All eight original members ( Algoma,

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, Gillett,

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, NEW Lutheran/

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/ Providence Academy,

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and Wausaukee) were previously part of the Marinette & Oconto-Northern Lakes-Packerland Conference ( MONLPC) eight-player football conference, with six of the eight members playing in the conference's East Division. It was originally called the Peninsula Conference because of its proximity to the

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, a name that was previously used by an

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that existed from 1933 to 1970 in northeastern Wisconsin. In 2024, the Peninsula name was dropped and the conference was rechristened the Across the Bay Conference. Wausaukee was shifted to the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference as part of the realignment. For the 2026-2027 competition cycle, the Across the Bay Conference is losing three schools (Gillett, Lena/St. Thomas Aquinas and Suring) to the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference and the NEW Lutheran cooperative will be losing Oneida Nation to its own stand-alone football program. Two schools will be moving over from the Southeast 8-Player Football Conference ( Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah and Valley Christian in Oshkosh) to replace them, and the Across the Bay will be entering into a crossover scheduling alliance with the Northeast 8-Player Football Conference.

List of conference members

Current members

Future members

Former members

Membership timeline

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List of conference champions

References

{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 2022 2022 establishments in Wisconsin