Great Northern UP Conference

The Great Northern UP Conference, is an athletic conference for high schools in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was formed in 1965 as the Great Northern Conference and changed its name to the A-B-C Conference in 1984, and again to its current name in 1990.

Member schools

Current members

Team	Location	Enrollment	Class	Joined	Previous Conference
Escanaba Eskymos	Escanaba	691	B	1965	Great Lakes Conference (Independent from 1986-1988)
Gladstone Braves	Gladstone	459	B	2018	Mid-Peninsula Athletic Conference
Kingsford Flivvers	Kingsford	547	B	1965	Menominee Range Conference
Marquette Redmen	Marquette	952	A	1973	Great Lakes Conference
Menominee Maroons	Menominee	449	B	1965	Independent

Former members

Team	Location	Joined	Previous Conference	Departed	Successive Conference
Iron Mountain Mountaineers	Iron Mountain	1965	Menominee Range Conference	1978	Mid-Peninsula Athletic Conference
West Iron County Wykons	Iron River	1968	None (School opened)	1988 (Independent from 1982-1986)	Independent
Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils	Sault Ste. Marie	2016	Independent	2016	Independent

Football

This list of conference champions goes through the 2018 season.

#	Team	GNC (1965-1984)	ABC (1984-1990)	GNC (1990-present)
1	Menominee	1969, 1971, 1982, 1983	1986-1988	1994, 1997-1999, 2003, 2005-2007, 2011, 2013-2016
2	Kingsford	1965, 1969		1990-1996, 2000-2002, 2004, 2008-2010, 2012, 2017
3	Escanaba	1966-1968, 1972, 1973, 1978-1982	1984, 1988, 1989	1994, 1998, 2018
4	Marquette	1975, 1976		2011, 2018
5	Gladstone	1982	1985	1998
	West Iron County	1970, 1974, 1977		—
7	Sault Ste. Marie	—