TCU competes in NCAA sports as a member of Division I (I-A in football). TCU won the National Championship in football
in both 1935 and 1938. TCU was a member of the old Southwest
Conference (which also included Texas A&M
University, University of Texas, Texas Tech and others) until that conference was disbanded after the 1995 season. It is
currently a member of Conference USA, but will leave that conference in
2005 and join the Mountain West Conference. The school's most famous athletes were football players Sammy Baugh and Davey O'Brien for whom the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award is named;
among currently-active athletes, the best-known TCU product is another NFL star, LaDainian Tomlinson, who is the starting running back for the
San Diego Chargers and in 2004 signed a 6 year, $60 million
contract making him the highest paid running back in NFL history.