(01-22-2018 08:46 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(01-22-2018 08:35 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  

(01-22-2018 08:25 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Looking back I'm really shocked that when the WAC essentially did an open casting call for anyone West of the Mississippi interested in FBS football UTSA and Texas St was all they could muster. It would have probably taken at least 5 more to ultimately save WAC football.

What really did the WAC in was the requirement for 12 teams to have a championship game. Had the Mountain West held at 10, this looks like a very different group to rebuild from:

Utah State
Idaho
San Jose State
New Mexico State

That’s to say nothing of Texas State and UTSA staying put in the WAC thanks to C-USA adding UTSA and WKU.

Great point. If the "Big 12" rule been in place my guess is that C-USA would have about 10 members which means probably 4 schools currently in C-USA or SBC would not be in either league. Coastal Carolina is a given. It also probably means App St and Georgia Southern stay in FCS too.

If the American had the option to play a conference title with 10 schools Tulsa and either ECU or Tulane also find them back in C-USA.

UTSA probably still ends up moving out of the WAC but maybe they hang onto Texas St and non-FB UTA.

If you go by the last moves announced:

American: -Tulsa, -East Carolina (originally announced as football only to the hen-Big East)
CUSA: +Tulsa, +East Carolina, -WKU, -MTSU, -FAU, -Charlotte, -ODU, -UTSA
SBC: +WKU, +MTSU, +FAU, -CCU, -Georgia Southern, -App State

MWC: -SJSU, -USU
WAC: +NMSU, +Idaho, +SJSU, +USU, +UTSA

Interesting that Texas State was added by the Sun Belt before Georgia Southern and App State, but that move probably doesn’t happen with FAU, WKU, and MTSU in the Belt (not to mention incoming Georgia State). In the worst case the WAC forms an Eastern Division with Charlotte, Old Dominion, and two of Georgia Southern/App State/Texas State.