Have been on the Slac St site and others saying a that Big Sky changes are coming. But was ridiculed there because everything never changes.

In 2011 or so, a Denver U blogger said that Montana and Montana St almost went to the WAC when it needed more members. That source said they pulled out just before UTSA, Texas St and UT-Arlington joined because the Montanas didn’t want to be in a conference with such bad travel. NMSU needed Texas schools and Cal Poly and UCDavis could not go FBS then because of the then ongoing California budget crisis.

So the Montanas forced through adding North Dakota and South Dakota (who didn't accept) to the Big Sky, which also have FBS desires, and adding UCDavis and Cal Poly to the Big Sky as they wanted future FBS partners. That blog is now deleted.

UCDavis has also deleted a website that they claimed had taken massive donations for an expanded stadium. Never believed that UCDavis would be content as a lowly FCS team for long. When the budget situation was better, Davis hired former Boise St coach Hawkins who brought their program up from the depths.

A year ago the Big West invited UCSD and Cal St Bakersfield to go to 11schools. Both of those schools had asked before and were rejected, but suddenly the Big West did an about face in spite of dividing their NCAA money between more mouths. IMHO, UCDavis and Cal Poly will leave for the WAC and they told the Big West early or face financial penalties.

Dixie St and Metro St of Denver will announce their plans to move in January to DI. They claim the WAC is interested, but that is only a cover story for their intentions which is the Big Sky.

The WAC has enough schools that have wanted to be FBS for years, but it only made sense when the WAC again gets the CFP money in 2025,but they need to qualify as a new FBS conference then. The WAC can still invite schools to FBS, so if a group of schools want it, it would be so much cheaper than getting a schedule independently like Liberty has done.

The new WAC will be
West
UCDavis - Sac St
Cal Poly - Cal Baptist
NMSU - GCU
East
UTRGV - Sam Houston St
McNeese St - Lamar- Incarnate Word
FBS only for Wichita St and Mo St
Non fb for UMKC and Oral Roberts

The Big Sky will be reduced to
N Arizona
S Utah
N Colorado
Idaho St
Portland St
Seattle and Utah Valley will be non fb schools
Dixie St and Metro St will be added this year
CWU and perhaps Azusa Pacific

Montana, Mont St, EWU, Idaho, and Weber St will all leave for the Summit which will also start fb and eventually go FBS and will partner with the WAC. The Dakotas school were just a few years from DII in 2011 but are now mature enough and have facilities and donors that could support a move up.

Denver and Omaha will be happy because they both depend on UND for their hockey rivalries, which is all three biggest sport financially.

Tarleton St has already said it wants DI with the Southland.

PUFW has already wanted the Horizon League and W Illinois will want in the OVC or Horizon.

Davis fans have brains so these thought are not beyond them. UCDavis has always had FBS plans.