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North Alabama along with other football playing members of the ASUN and the WAC have announced they are joining together to form a new as of yet un-named football conference with the intentions of beginning play in FBS in 2024.

North Alabama
Austin Peay
Eastern Kentucky
Central Arkansas
Stephen F. Austin
Abilene Christian
Tarleton State
Southern Utah
Utah Tech
UT-Rio Grand Valley (would join 2025 when their FB team begins play)

It is also reported that the new league is still in negotiations with 4 other "prominent" FCS programsn.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...ources-say

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/09/at...fbs-report

More hands in the pot!!! Like it

Setting up for when the big ten and sec break off into LLCs separate from the rest of us.

Nothing like having 7 FBS teams in a state with 5M people. I know we love our footbaw here but at what point are we oversaturated? Did the math for these off the top of my head:
GA - 5
TN - 4
LA - 5
MS - 3
VA - 5
KY - 4

(12-09-2022 04:16 PM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]Nothing like having 7 FBS teams in a state with 5M people. I know we love our footbaw here but at what point are we oversaturated? Did the math for these off the top of my head:
GA - 5
TN - 4
LA - 5
MS - 3
VA - 5
KY - 4

2025 FBS
TX - 17 • 29.5 million [1 fbs program for every 1.735 million residents]
OH - 8 • 11.8 million [1.475 million]
AL - 7 • 5.04 million [720,000]
CA - 7 • 39.2 million [5.6 million]
NC - 7 • 10.55 million [1.5 million]
FL - 6 • 21.8 million [3.6 million]
GA - 5 • 10.8 million [2.16 million]
LA - 5 • 4.62 million [924,000]
MI - 5 • 10.1 million [2.02 million]
TN - 5 • 6.98 million [1.4 million]
UT - 5 • 3.34 million [668,000]
VA - 5 • 8.6 million [1.7 million]
IN - 4 • 6.8 million [1.7 million]
KY - 4 • 4.5 million [1.1 million]
AR - 3 • 3.03 million [1.01 million]
CO - 3 • 5.8 million [1.9 million]
IL - 3 • 12.67 million [4.2 million]
MS - 3 • 2.95 million [983,333]
NY - 3 • 19.8 million [6.6 million]
OK - 3 • 3.99 million [1.33 million]
PA - 3 • 12.96 million [4.32 million]
SC - 3 • 5.19 million [1.73 million]
AZ - 2 • 7.3 million [3.65 million]
IA - 2 • 3.2 million [1.6 million]
KS - 2 • 2.9 million [1.45 million]
MD - 2 • 6.2 million [3.1 million]
MA - 2 • 6.99 million [3.5 million]
NV - 2 • 3.14 million [1.57 million]
NM - 2 • 2.1 million [1.05 million]
OR - 2 • 4.25 million [2.13 million]
WA - 2 • 7.7 million [3.85 million]
WV - 2 • 1.78 million [890,000]
CT - 1 • 3.6 million [3.6 million]
HI - 1 • 1.4 million [1.4 million]
ID - 1 • 1.9 million [1.9 million]
MN - 1 • 5.7 million [5.7 million]
MO - 1 • 6.2 million [6.2 million]
NE - 1 • 1.96 million [1.96 million]
NJ - 1 • 9.3 million [9.3 million]
WI - 1 • 5.9 million [5.9 million]
WY - 1 • 578,803 [578,803]

AK - 0
DE - 0
ME - 0
MT - 0
NH - 0
ND - 0
RI - 0
SD - 0
VT - 0

(12-09-2022 04:16 PM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]Nothing like having 7 FBS teams in a state with 5M people. I know we love our footbaw here but at what point are we oversaturated? Did the math for these off the top of my head:
GA - 5
TN - 4
LA - 5
MS - 3
VA - 5
KY - 4

It’s been over saturated. Makes no sense to add more FBS teams, but here we are. The dumber thing is of all the teams listed, how many are we in a conference with?

Future members of CUSA

This stuff has happened multiple times over the decades. too many come up and the big boys will reset. They always do.

(12-09-2022 04:16 PM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]Nothing like having 7 FBS teams in a state with 5M people. I know we love our footbaw here but at what point are we oversaturated? Did the math for these off the top of my head:
GA - 5
TN - 4
LA - 5
MS - 3
VA - 5
KY - 4

Seven in the state, but it’s 5 in the northern half of the state. There are only 2 college football programs south of Montgomery. There are 4 just in the metro Birmingham area.

There will be a reset coming soon. Expect to see movement from the Big 10 and 12 very soon.

A school has to sponsor 16 sports to be FBS, UNA currently has 14. Have they said which sports they will be adding???

(12-13-2022 09:30 AM)Usajags Wrote: [ -> ]A school has to sponsor 16 sports to be FBS, UNA currently has 14. Have they said which sports they will be adding???

Since they already satisfy the men's sports (6) and women's sports (8) minimums, I suspect they will add women's indoor and outdoor track and field which counts as 2 sports.