The Big 8 Conference is a junior college athletic conference within the California Community College Athletic Association (CCAAA). The conference formed in July 2007 as the Big 7 Conference when seven school splits from the Bay Valley Conference. The conference took on its current name when Modesto Junior College joined as the league's eighth member, on July 1, 2007. Folsom Lake College joined as the conference's ninth member in 2016.[1]