Conference USA Expansion & Realignment

Conference Realignment: What’s Up Next?

Feb 17th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: ACC Expansion & Realignment, Big 12 Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Big Ten Expansion & Realignment, College Sports Television News, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, SEC Expansion & Realignment, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, WAC Expansion & Realignment

The Recap: So the ACC struck first by adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East. The SEC followed by adding Texas A&M and Missouri from the Big 12. The Big 12 then added TCU and WVU. And things seemed normal. Patterns remained intact. And we waited for the next, seemingly logical move. And then [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West to Form New Conference

Feb 8th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Update: It is official. CUSA and the Mountain West will both fold their conferences and merge under a yet to be named conference name. Member ship could still grow with schools such as Temple, Utah St., San Jose St. and others as potential candidates. With Memphis no longer in the mix as they head for [...]

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Memphis To Join Big East for All Sports

Feb 7th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

When the Big East invited CUSA members Houston, UCF and SMU, passing over Memphis, the long-time dreams of getting into the conference for the Tigers seemed dead. And if that wasn’t enough, when the school went to west coast an invited San Diego St. and Boise St. to join for football, it looked like the [...]

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Big East To Add 5: SMU, UCF, Houston (All-Sports) & Boise St., SDSU (football-only)

Dec 6th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

After months of determining the best expansion plan for the remaining 5 Big East football schools…and months of negotiations, the Big East is finally set to expand. The plan will be to add Houston, SMU and UCF from CUSA for all-sports, bringing that total to 16. Boise St. and San Diego St. will join for [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West Football Partnership Official

Oct 15th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

This has been in the works for sometime now, and it’s finally a go: welcome your first “super” (in volume of schools) “conference”. Over the past year, the Mountain West and CUSA have toyed with the idea of some sort of union. The idea first gained legs when Utah left for the Pac-10 and the [...]

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Big East: “When is Enough, Enough?” and How CUSA Can Help

Oct 12th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Editorial, Featured News

The Big East continues to search for it’s new path. They have turned over every rock and on each street pole in Providence all the way into New Jersey, you can see the flyers the Big East has posted reading “LOST: BCS Caliber Football Schools”. And with all the the options (or lack there of) [...]

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Conference Rumors

Feb 14th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: CAA Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Editorial

There’s been a number of rumors floating around of late to share: Charlotte to CAA (football only) & App St. to CUSA. Note, that these are just rumors. But I’ve heard them and have now seen multiple sites discuss them as well. So here’s the breakdown: Charlotte & CAA Football: The CAA is in an [...]

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Temple to Conference USA?

Aug 23rd, 2010 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News

That’s the rumor du jour. According to reports, Temple and another school will join CUSA for the 2011 season. Tom Dienhart of Rivals.com reported it today, as did a Tulane blog over a week ago. What makes this rumor tough to believe right now is that TCU is the other school to be included. Which [...]

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Mountain West & CUSA Proposed “Championship Game”

Aug 20th, 2010 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment

As the rumors continue to spin about a proposed CUSA/MWC merger to 23 schools, there’s been more clarity that instead of this drastic option, that something else could be in the works. Reports say CUSA and Mountain West officials have met to discuss the idea of having the conference football champions meet in a championship [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West Merger Chatter

Aug 20th, 2010 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment

All eyes have been on the recent WAC/BYU/MWC shifts that had the WAC ready to add BYU for non-football sports which would have potentially caused Boise St. to stop it’s move from the WAC to the MWC. Utah St. went as far as to reject a MWC invite thinking the 8 WAC schools would remain [...]

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