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UTEP will have to try for MWC.

If they don't get in the MWC, they'll have to try for the WAC and turn football independent like New Mexico State.

Conference USA may need to become what the WAC is and try to pull from other non-football leagues to cobble together a conference like the WAC had to. Then they can try to put together a football league like the Big East tried to do by inviting football independents to join it. It would be a model not unlike the Big East had.

They have FIU, La Tech, UTEP, Western Kentucky, and Middle Tennessee State. They could offer football only options UConn, UMass, Liberty, and New Mexico State. It would be a football conference of 9 which the ACC was for many years.

I'm kind of surprised that the American and Sun Belt each are expanding to 14. I don't think that the ACC has experienced a really good scheduling model at 14. They were saying yesterday at the VT-SU game that this is the first time Syracuse has played in Blacksburg since joining in 2013. 16 is a much better scheduling model.

In response to this post by VTHokie2000

Posted: 10/24/2021 at 4:20PM

National reporters calling ODU JMU to Sunbelt. -- PadrosWindup 10/22/2021 6:19PM

Full circle for ODU -- VaTechHokiesACC 10/23/2021 06:32AM

1982-1989 in the Sun Belt. Joined CAA in 1990 ** -- HOO86 10/23/2021 10:08AM

SunBelt still has 2 BBall only schools: UArkLittleRock and Texas-Arlington ** -- PadrosWindup 10/23/2021 11:48AM

I am old enough to remember when Sunbelt was the bottom rung conference -- DarylS 10/22/2021 11:40PM

And it's prize is being at the bottom again -- mrcaniac 10/23/2021 12:16AM

I am old enough to say this all -- DarylS 10/23/2021 01:30AM

Everything old is new again -- mrcaniac 10/23/2021 2:46PM

I'll follow the Sun Belt more if they do add ODU & JMU. -- Old Line Hokie 10/22/2021 6:59PM

Thamel: Southern Mississippi officially joined the Sun Belt today. -- HOO86 10/22/2021 6:44PM

If that happens MTSU and WKU should reach out to the MAC -- HOO86 10/22/2021 6:40PM

Need a minimum of 8 conference members to be "G5" -- mrcaniac 10/22/2021 11:49PM

U think if the MWC wanted UTEP they -- PadrosWindup 10/22/2021 6:47PM

UTEP would allow MWC to have representation in TX again -- VTHokie2000 10/22/2021 6:48PM

They are about to lose Boise State to the Big XII I'm seeing reported. ** -- HOO86 10/22/2021 6:55PM

Re: They are about to lose Boise State to the Big XII I'm seeing reported. -- HOO86 10/22/2021 6:56PM

If Boise State ends up joining the Big XII, then the MWC will need to fill -- VTHokie2000 10/22/2021 9:14PM

Agreed -- HOO86 10/22/2021 10:37PM

Haven’t looked it up recently, but n the past their attendance was abysmal. ** -- Stech 10/23/2021 9:11PM

NM, NM State, and UTEP have a rivalry that exists for all sports -- VTHokie2000 10/23/2021 9:28PM

UTEP will have to try for MWC. -- HOO86 10/24/2021 4:20PM

C-USA will probably need to do that anyways if it wants to keep -- VTHokie2000 10/24/2021 4:40PM

I hear you, but they are FCS in numbers, below 20k in attendance. -- Stech 10/23/2021 9:40PM

Maybe so, but they may not have a choice though -- VTHokie2000 10/23/2021 9:43PM

Only option left ** -- VaTechHokiesACC 10/24/2021 12:29AM

I don't know, but they have to try. ** -- HOO86 10/22/2021 6:47PM

UTEP will have to try for MWC.

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