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Southern Utah's entry remained on the 2022 schedule. [3] [4] The WAC football league also included Dixie State University (renamed Utah Tech University in 2022) and Tarleton State University, both of which played as FCS independents in 2020–21 after having moved from NCAA Division II to the WAC for non-football sports in July 2020. The ...
The Western Athletic Conference ... The WAC underwent a major expansion on July 1, 2021, with four schools joining. ... The new football league will play a six-game ...
The conference is a merger of the existing football leagues of the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) and Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The UAC covers the southwestern , western , and southern United States with member institutions located in Arkansas , Alabama , Georgia , Kentucky , Tennessee , Texas , and Utah .
The WAC’s strong brand, ambitious leadership and betting on fertile markets make the recalibrated conference one of the most intriguing subplots in college athletics in the upcoming years.
The WAC and the ASUN Conference entered into a football-only partnership in the 2021 season, renewing it for 2022. Shortly after the 2022 season, the two conferences fully merged their football leagues into what eventually became the United Athletic Conference, with Tarleton as one of the new league's nine inaugural members. [4] [5] [6]
The Vikings won the most games in program history since 2019 last season but missed the playoffs.
The term, though used infrequently before 2010, has historical roots in the proposed "Airplane Conference" of 1959, the Metro Conference's 1990 plan to expand to 16 members, the expansion of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) to 16 members in 1996, and the creation of 12-team, two-division conferences with football championship games by the ...
Wildcats seek momentum heading into next week's home game against SFA with WAC title, playoff berth at stake