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The bad news is C-USA would still likely lose two more members.

Scenario: Conference USA keeps Marshall and Old Dominion from leaving while adding independent Liberty and FCS member James Madison. 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. In the WAC, Southern Utah and UT-Arlington joined the league on Friday, giving the WAC 14 teams for 2022-23, before NMSU and Sam Houston leave for Conference USA. Colin Deaver (ColinDeaverTV) July 1, 2022. The NCAA requires eight schools for a league to compete at the FBS level. Southern Utah and UT-Arlington have joined the WAC. 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.