The Tigers were slated to join the American Midwest Conference in 2023-24. 10:13 AM EDT College football expansion and conference realignment hit pause after two major moves involving the SEC with Texas and Oklahoma heading to that league and the. The school had previously been a member of the NCAA Division 3 SLIAC conference from 2013 through 2021 but opted to rejoin the NAIA. Southern Miss and Western Kentucky could then be headed to the Sun Belt, sources said. Iowa Wesleyan was a member of the Continental Athletic Conference, which was made up of NAIA independent schools. The bad news is C-USA would still likely lose two more members.
I’m excited to invite these six diverse institutions to AAU, AAU board chair and University of Southern California president Carol L.
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Scenario: Conference USA keeps Marshall and Old Dominion from leaving while adding independent Liberty and FCS member James Madison. The Association of American Universities AAU announced the addition of six new members on Thursday, including the aforementioned four schools, plus UC Riverside and George Washington. Liberty would be an automatic addition, sources said, but it’s unknown if the league would also reach out to independents UMass, UConn or New Mexico State or try to entice any FCS programs to move up to the FBS level.Ĭ-USA Keeps Marshall & ODU, Adds Liberty & James Madison Realistically, a conference needs at least 10 members for scheduling purposes, unless a six-member league plays conference members twice to get to eight or 10 league games.Ĭ-USA would have to immediately bolster its membership. NCAA conference realignment became news across media in multiple conflicting sources. Nevertheless, their additions raise the SEC’s number of schools to 16. However, the two programs are trying to expedite the move, seeking passage in 2023 or 2024. University of Arizona President Bobby Robbins says until Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff gives the conference’s leaders hard numbers on a future media rights deal, any talk about schools. The NCAA requires eight schools for a league to compete at the FBS level. SEC When SEC chairmen unanimously voted to allow Texas and Oklahoma to join the conference, the official date of the transition was 2025. In this scenario, C-USA will have lost nine of its 14 members - three to the Sun Belt, six to the AAC - and have only five remaining schools: FIU, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, UTEP and Western Kentucky.
These moves also could put Conference USA - or is it Conference DOA? - on life support. Non-football playing Sun Belt members Arkansas-Little Rock and Texas-Arlington also will no longer be league members, sources said.
New members Marshall, ODU and JMU would be in the East Division. Current member Troy would move from the East to the West Division, where Southern Miss would reside. This would give the Sun Belt a 14-team football league split into two seven-team divisions.
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