![]() While UTRGV was created by the merger of UTPA with UT-Brownsville, the UTRGV athletic program traces its history solely through UTPA. ^ The founding date for UTRGV listed in this table reflects that of Edinburg College, the predecessor to the former University of Texas–Pan American.^ UT Arlington was a full but non-football member in 2012–13 before rejoining the conference in 2022–23.^ New Mexico State will remain an affiliate in women's swimming & diving after it otherwise leaves for C-USA.^ a b New Mexico State and Sam Houston will depart for Conference USA at the end of the 2022–23 school year.Current on-campus enrollment is about 25,300. Departing members are highlighted in red. The following institutions are the current full members of the Western Athletic Conference as of July 2022. Members ĭeparting member Current full members One year later, on July 1, 2022, one FCS football school ( Lamar) and one non-football school ( Chicago State) left, and one FCS football school ( Southern Utah) and one non-football school ( UT Arlington) joined. The conference reinstated football at that time and now competes in the Football Championship Subdivision. The WAC underwent a major expansion on July 1, 2021, with four schools joining. The WAC then added men's soccer and became one of the NCAA's eleven Division I non-football conferences. The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Texas.ĭue to most of the conference's football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012–13 season and left the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A). The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. American college athletics conference Western Athletic Conference ![]()
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