(07-14-2021 07:16 PM)solohawks Wrote:  ... The Big West and the MAC weren't supposed to make it. Big West added UNLV before the test to stay was applied so they were OK with the 50% of the conference exception. The MAC schools that didn't qualify fought back. Doing so allowed the conference to come back as it was prior to the forced reclassification ...

Seems like the MAC schools would phrase that as the MAC schools that were told they didn't qualify disputed it, and since enough of them proved that they did indeed qualify, the MAC stayed together under the 50% rule.

In any event, half of the MAC demonstrated that they qualified, so even without the 50% rule, you'd have to add five MAC schools to that list.

I thought I recently saw that North Texas was a school that did the drop in the earlier reclassification ... something like going down to Division II before climbing back up?