Dixie State As Expansion Candidate

It mentioned a split north and south, but could the south be WAC as a football conference? It could leave, if granted, a 12th game as a championship game between Big Sky North verses WAC South as a true champ. It seems that D2 schools from Texas and the west coast with football is not happy right now.

I suspect Western Oregon, Central Washington and Azusa Pacific could be in the mix and if Simon Fraser could get a waiver to play in D1 for football and hockey? What would the north/south split be like? This is the first official article where coaches, ads and the Big Sky commish talking about realignment issues out west. This could effect the WAC as we know it as well. Might see Chicago State leave, and UTRGV adding football. Seattle, C. Washington and Eastern Washington playing against each other might benefit all three.

As it is, we can speculate D1 with the GNAC, RMAC and Lone Star schools that play football which could actually make the WAC stable. Yes, we can use CSU-Pueblo and Colorado Mesa to see what the north and south would look like. Big Sky commish said he wants to add more schools, but adding more would hurt unless you can actually keep the north rivalry games intact.

Tarleton State's AD mentioned several D2 schools want to make the jump to D1 out west. I do wonder the article from Colorado Mesa actually saying they want to move up? We are now hearing schools in D2 out there making some noise. CSU-Pueblo and Colorado Mesa would bring the top 2 RMAC schools in football to FCS.