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New FBS Conference: ASUN-WAC Football

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have agreed to merge and form a 10-member football-only conference and make the jump to the FBS, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Once the move is finalized, the member schools will form the 11th FBS conference.

This would be the first time since 1999, when the Mountain West was formed, that a new conference would join the FBS.

WAC football members Stephen F. Austin, Abilene Christian, Utah Tech, Southern Utah and Tarleton State will join Atlantic Sun members Austin Peay, Eastern Kentucky, Central Arkansas and North Alabama to form the newly-merged FBS conference. There is currently not a name for the new conference, but it is being referred to in the planning process as “ASUN-WAC Football.”
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WASUN! (western atlantic sun) :D

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ubercow wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:15 am WASUN! (western atlantic sun) :D
haha nice!

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Without support from the state and Aloha Stadium now looking at 2027, I wouldn't be surprised if Hawaii ends up here

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From Utah to Kentucky with a lot of Texas in between. Not bad geographically speaking.
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ubercow wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:15 am WASUN! (western atlantic sun) :D
Ahahahaha. Really funny :D

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This new football conference is actually called the United Athletic Conference.

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They are not quite there yet. Appears that their football only conference entry at the FCS level was denied by the NCAA in late April 2023. And the 10th member is not scheduled to start a football program until 2025 (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). FBS entry would likely have been somewhere in the future but not specified. I would have posted an article from The Athletic, but there is a pay wall (?) blocking me from reading the whole article.
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My3Cats wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 8:46 am They are not quite there yet. Appears that their football only conference entry at the FCS level was denied by the NCAA in late April 2023. And the 10th member is not scheduled to start a football program until 2025 (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). FBS entry would likely have been somewhere in the future but not specified. I would have posted an article from The Athletic, but there is a pay wall (?) blocking me from reading the whole article.
Bet all 10 schools have a bigger stadium than Hawaii 🥺

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BigWave96744 wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 8:21 pm
My3Cats wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 8:46 am They are not quite there yet. Appears that their football only conference entry at the FCS level was denied by the NCAA in late April 2023. And the 10th member is not scheduled to start a football program until 2025 (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). FBS entry would likely have been somewhere in the future but not specified. I would have posted an article from The Athletic, but there is a pay wall (?) blocking me from reading the whole article.
Bet all 10 schools have a bigger stadium than Hawaii 🥺
Not going to Google those facilities, but no matter, I will NOT take that bet!
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