I honestly can’t see a Conference USA school wanting to leave that conference for the Sun Belt. The other part of the criteria is that any new member must be within the geographic footprint of the conference. They have stated that they would only add a school with an established FBS-level program. Recently, the Sun Belt has made it known that they are entertaining the idea of adding another member.
#Sun belt conference expansion upgrade
They left for what was at the time an upgrade to the WAC. Schools like Louisiana Tech, Idaho, Utah State, and New Mexico State were all recent members. The conference has actually had quite a bit of in and out from various institutions. The Sun Belt is greatly regarded as the weakest FBS conference but with the recent raid of the WAC by the Mountain West, I think the Sun Belt may have moved up a notch in the pecking order. Arkansas-Little Rock is the only school that does not have a football team. The University of Denver is leaving the conference to join the WAC. Of the non-football members, South Alabama, who has been a member since 1976, will be upgrading to be a full member including football. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if the conference were made up of football-playing institutions only in the very near future.
Unlike the Big East, which could really be two separate conferences due to that split, the Sun Belt could not.
The Sun Belt conference is made up of two parts, football members and non-football members.
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