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[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 conference also announced that it will most likely add ...
The decade of the 2010s began with a series of conference realignment moves that would have trickle-down effects throughout Division I football, and profoundly change the membership of the WAC. Boise State decided to move to the Mountain West Conference (MWC) for the 2011–12 season, [ 33 ] and to replace departing BYU, the MWC also recruited ...
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.
Due to the Western Athletic Conference being "raided" by the Mountain West Conference, Conference USA, and the Sun Belt Conference, it was initially unknown what path the WAC would take. After these moves, the WAC was down to only two football programs for the 2013 season – New Mexico State University and the University of Idaho .
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.
For the 2021 football season, the ASUN and WAC formed a football-only partnership, with the three new ASUN members competing alongside WAC members for an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. [180] On September 17, that sixth football member was revealed to be Austin Peay, which would join the conference for 2022–23. [181]
Full membership (non-football) Sun Belt: WAC: November 10, 2010: 2012 [22] Mercer Bears: Football No football program Pioneer: November 20, 2010: 2013 [23] Hawaiʻi (Rainbow) Warriors and Rainbow Wahine [24] Full membership (non-football) WAC: Big West: December 10, 2010: 2012 [25] Hawaiʻi Warriors [24] Football WAC: Mountain West: December 10 ...
Here’s a look at what the CCC, WAC, TVL and SL will look like for the Merced County football teams after realignment with the first official day of practiced scheduled for Monday. Central ...