With its dissolution, several teams joined the Ohio Heartland Conference.

[1] The remaining conference members discussed adding several schools, including readmitting Malabar, adding Mansfield Senior High School or Mt.

Vernon High School, but travel considerations prevented any agreement from being reached.

[4] The Cardinal Conference officially disbanded following the 1986-87 school year.

[1] This only includes state championships won while schools were members of the Cardinal Conference: 1975[7]