The Roadrunners won 11 straight games and defeated Western Kentucky in the Championship Game. The Conference USA was dominated by UTSA this year. Sam Houston State, which won the FCS championship last season, is part of the newly restarted WAC football league, which is competing in FCS this year. All-Conference USA Football Team Honors for 2021. New Mexico State is also an FBS independent and member of Western Athletic Conference for basketball and other sports. Jacksonville State has been a successful program in FCS. Liberty and Jacksonville State are both members of the ASun Conference for most of their sports, though Liberty is an independent competing in FBS. The newest C-USA schools will keep the league far-flung, from New Mexico to Virginia.
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All the Sun Belt’s new schools are also expected to join by 2023. For the Mid-American Conference, it is the right decision.' The MAC said it has started formalizing plans to move all affected sports - football, men's and women's cross country, men's and women. James Madison and the Sun Belt announced they will hold a news conference Saturday on the school’s Harrisonburg, Virginia, campus.
The Big 12 responded by adding four schools, three from the American Athletic Conference, which led the AAC to poach six schools from C-USA.Ĭ-USA has also lost three members to the Sun Belt in recent weeks and the last piece of the Sun Belt’s plan to expand to 14 football members fell into place Friday: James Madison, a perennial championship contender in the Football Championship Subdivision, was given approval by the state to move up to FBS, where the Sun Belt competes. The NCAA requires Football Bowl Subdivision leagues to have at least eight teams.Īll of this conference realignment is a trickle down from what started in July with the Southeastern Conference inviting Texas and Oklahoma to leave the Big 12 and join the powerhouse league by 2025. Including MTSU and WKU, Conference USA has only five members that have not announced plans to leave in the next few years. The C-USA overhaul might not be done, either: Mid-American Conference presidents met Friday with possible expansion on the agenda and C-USA members Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee State as potential options, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league’s discussions are private. “We have been deliberate in our efforts for the past few weeks to get us to this point and will continue to evaluate and consider our additional options for membership.” “We are incredibly excited about adding these four new members and feel there is tremendous upside in these moves for our conference,” Conference USA Commissioner Judy MacLeod said in a statement. The conference was established in 1995.Conference USA announced Friday that it will add Liberty, Jacksonville State, New Mexico State and Sam Houston State in 2023 as the league tries to replenish its ranks after having nine schools announce plans to leave in the last month.Ĭ-USA said its new members will join July 1, 2023. Middle Tennessee joined Conference USA in 2013, while Western Kentucky was added in 2014. However, McMurphy reported that the conference is talking with numerous FCS schools and is considering independents UConn, UMass, Liberty and New Mexico State as potential football-only members. So it may become difficult for C-USA to remain a conference, considering it would need to find a ton of replacement programs for the future. Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA are leaving for the AAC, while Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss are joining the Sun Belt. The MAC Championship Game will be held on December 7, 2019. The entire schedule was released on February 20, 2019. The season will begin on August 29 and will end on November 30. and is part of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
Once these moves are official, the MAC will have 14 schools, while Conference USA will be down to 3 - Florida International, Louisiana Tech and UTEP.Ĭonference USA has already lost 9 schools over the past 2 weeks. The 2019 Mid-American Conference football season was the 74th season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). According to Brett McMurphy of Action Network, Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee are “likely” to join the MAC, potentially by the end of the week, pending approval of the MAC presidents. Another 2 Conference USA schools appear to soon be leaving the conference.Īs the realignment dominoes continue to fall, it seems the MAC will be the next conference to pry away schools from C-USA.
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