It's a time of change in college football.
BYU had been operating as an FBS independent since the 2011 season following its departure from the Mountain West and had been angling to join a power conference. The other three are set to make the transition from the American Athletic Conference. Houston has had recent success — particularly in men’s basketball — and is a natural geographic fit with the other Texas-based Big 12 members.
With the new teams added for 2023, the AAC has eliminated divisions and will play an eight-game league schedule.With those six schools leaving for the AAC, C-USA was all of a sudden down to just eight members. Three of those remaining members — Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall — did not want to wait around to see what was going to happen with Conference USA. Instead,
Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky subsequently had flirtations with the MAC, but decided to stick with C-USA as the conference worked to add new members. Liberty and New Mexico State joined the fold after previously being FBS independents. The conference also added Jacksonville State and Sam Houston from the FCS level.
The conference has been scrambling to secure a new media rights deal. That was true even before UCLA and USC decided to leave for the Big Ten. Those departures meant the overall value of the league’s broadcast inventory took a massive hit, and it also increased the urgency to try to get a deal done. , commissioner Brett Yormark said at the conclusion of the league's spring meetings in early June. According to multiple reports, Colorado has had conversations with the Big 12, which is reportedly eyeing CU along with Arizona, Arizona State and Utah.
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