Six new members will join the WAC on July 1, 2013: Institution Idaho will join the Big Sky Conference.One current member will leave the WAC on July 1, 2014:
Texas–Arlington and Texas State will join the Sun Belt Conference.San Jose State and Utah State will join the Mountain West Conference.Louisiana Tech and UTSA will join Conference USA.Seven current members will leave the WAC on July 1, 2013: Yellow denotes a school that will be departing on July 1, 2014. Pink denotes schools that will be departing on July 1, 2013.
Western athletic conference teams full#
The following institutions are the ten full members of the WAC for the 2012–2013 academic year.
2.5 Membership changes and the elimination of football. 2.3 Second wave of expansion and turbulence. Due to various members leaving the WAC, the conference will drop football as a sponsored sport after the 2012-13 season, therefore becoming a non-football conference. Three additional former members have moved on to the Pacific-12 Conference. Many long-standing members left to form the Mountain West Conference or to join Conference USA. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions located in California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, plus the "non-western" states of Louisiana and Texas (traditionally associated with the South). In football, the WAC is a non-automatic qualifier member of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) selection system. The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A).
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