Conference USA does have a grant of rights running through 2027 but the price to exit is low. A team leaving for 2026 might only need to pay $800,000, quite a lot lower than the $25 million or whatever needed to leave the American. ...
2024) that they are leaving the Missouri Valley and Missouri Valley Football Conference to join FBS Conference USA effective in the 2025-26 season. The Bears will not be eligible for the FCS Playoffs this season. As it
On May 29, 2024,Stephen F. Austin announced it would be leaving the WAC for the Southland Conference.The Lumberjacks will join the Southland on July 1, 2024, bringing the conference to 10 FCS teams and the WAC with four FCS team. Stephen F. Austin previously played in the Southland from...
Arizona State entered the weekend as one of the hottest teams in the nation with wins in its last five, and it looked the part in a dominant Big 12 title win over Iowa State to punch its ticket to the College Football Playoff. The Cyclones simply had no answer for star running back ...
I can’t blame the Pac-12 completely. It needed to do this to survive. This is only a ripple effect from 10 teams leaving the conference last year. Now, it’s got a much better path to the eight teams it needs. By 2026, it’ll be eligible for consideration for an automatic bid ...
non-bowl teams and rebuilding. The tiers are fairly self-explanatory. Contenders means these teams will push for the division/conference title. Bowl bidders are expected to be in the conversation for a bowl bid, non-bowl teams aren't. Rebuilding teams are in the process of attempting to get...
Their defense was tremendous without Aaron Ekblad and Brandon Montour, and now they’re both back, leaving everyone comfortably slotted. Oliver Ekman-Larsson has been an unreal addition. Perhaps the only area to nitpick would be to find a replacement for Dmitry Kulikov, who has been fine, ...
Walker's knee would then fall apart, leaving a massive albatross of a contract on Charlotte's books over the past three years. And with the second pick in this year's draft, Charlotte would leap at the chance to takeScoot Hendersonto supplant Walker as the face of the franchise as his ...
Big Ten admits four Pac-12 teams The Big Ten added a few more pit stops to its well-known “Maps” commercial during the offseason — four to be exact. Rather than the video starting in Omaha, Nebraska, the 30-second ad began even farther west in Seattle,...
Virginia Commonwealthis joining the football-free Atlantic 10 (which will have 14 teams for basketball after adding VCUand Butlerto replaceTempleand Charlotte). Old Dominion, which has had a football program for about three hours, ismaking a big moveto Conference USA. Georgia State, with even ...