(06-18-2017 03:11 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Would the Big Sky welcome additional WAC football programs into their 2 FCS conference scheme?

If Azusa Pacific for instance came up would they put them with the other Cali schools, N Arizona, and S Utah? What if an existing WAC school like GCU wanted to.

The Big Sky and WAC could have pulled the trigger had North Dakota stayed, as there would have been 12 full members playing FCS football, and 2 affiliates:

Big Sky - Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Idaho State, North Dakota, Northern Colorado (non-football members: UMKC, UTRGV, NMSU)
WAC - Eastern Washington, Portland State, Sacramento State, Northern Arizona, Southern Utah, Weber State (non-football: Seattle, CSU Bakersfield, Grand Canyon, Utah Valley)

You could basically flip a coin for where to assign UC Davis and Cal Poly, and even have it setup to rotate every two years so the Big Sky gets two trips to California every four years.

Since there would only be six conference games, there could be an agreement setup to where each of the full members get two non-conference games versus the other side of the Big Sky/WAC alignment. If there were three interlock games, there could actually be permanent rivalries, with schools rotating through the other opponents once every three years.