Western Athletic Conference
American college athletics conference
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| 2025 | Members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) departing for the West Coast Conference, including teams like Abilene Christian, California Baptist, Grand Canyon, Seattle, Tarleton State, UT Arlington, Utah Tech, and Utah Valley. |
| 2025 | Seattle University will depart the Western Athletic Conference to join the West Coast Conference. |
| 2025 | UTRGV is scheduled to officially join the merged football conference with its new football program. |
| 2025 | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) planned to join the merged football conference with its new FCS football program. |
| 2025 | UTRGV officially set to join the merged ASUN–WAC Football Conference with its new football program. |
| February 2025 | Rumors circulated about California Baptist and Utah Valley potentially departing the WAC for the Big West Conference, with a potential vote scheduled for February 28. |
| 2024 | Stephen F. Austin departed the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). |
| 2024 | Utah leaves the Mountain West Conference and joins the Pac-12 Conference. |
| 2024 | San Diego State University is set to join the WAC as an affiliate member for men's soccer. |
| 2024 | Stephen F. Austin State University and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley departed from the United Athletic Conference, with Stephen F. Austin moving to Southland and UTRGV also to Southland. |
| 2024 | University of West Georgia joined the United Athletic Conference. |
| 2024 | Planned full round-robin schedule for the merged ASUN–WAC Football Conference. |
| 2024 | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) plans to create an FCS football program and join the merged conference. |
| November 2024 | Grand Canyon declined the West Coast Conference invitation after receiving an invite to join the Mountain West Conference, with plans to join no later than July 1, 2026. |
| May 2024 | Grand Canyon and Seattle announced invitations to join the West Coast Conference, beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. |
| 2023 | BYU leaves the Mountain West Conference and joins the Big 12 Conference. |
| 2023 | Conference continues to evolve with new members like Southern Utah joining full membership. |
| 2023 | Houston Christian University concludes its men's soccer affiliate membership with the Western Athletic Conference. |
| 2023 | New Mexico State University joined the WAC as an affiliate member for women's swimming. |
| 2023 | Jacksonville State University announced its departure from ASUN to join Conference USA (CUSA), an FBS conference. |
| 2023 | Tarleton State University joined the United Athletic Conference. |
| 2023 | The United Athletic Conference began listing football conference champions from this year. |
| 2023 | Kennesaw State University departed from the United Athletic Conference, moving to CUSA. |
| 2023 | The ASUN–WAC Challenge transformed into the United Athletic Conference, becoming a full FCS conference. |
| 2023 | Stephen F. Austin's final year in WAC football. |
| 2023 | Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State left the WAC to transition to the FBS level as members of Conference USA. |
| September 8 2023 | The University of West Georgia announced its transition from Division II to join the ASUN in 2024, with its football program also joining the United Athletic Conference that same year. |
| April 17 2023 | The ASUN-WAC Football Partnership formally rebranded as the United Athletic Conference (UAC). The NCAA subsequently denied the UAC's waiver request to be recognized as a single-sport FCS football conference. |
| January 5 2023 | The ASUN and WAC jointly announced the establishment of a basic governing structure for the new football conference and hired Oliver Luck as executive director. |
| 2022 | University of the Incarnate Word concludes its men's soccer affiliate membership with the Western Athletic Conference. |
| 2022 | Kennesaw State University joined the United Athletic Conference. |
| 2022 | Austin Peay State University, University of North Alabama, and Southern Utah University joined the United Athletic Conference. |
| 2022 | Stephen F. Austin wins the Western Athletic Conference football championship with a 3-1 conference record. |
| 2022 | The WAC football league was branded as the ASUN–WAC Challenge, establishing a temporary football partnership with the ASUN Conference. |
| 2022 | Southern Utah joined the WAC football conference. |
| December 20 2022 | ASUN and WAC jointly announce a full merger of their football conferences effective for the 2023 season, creating a new tentative ASUN–WAC Football Conference with ten members. |
| July 1 2022 | Lamar (FCS football school) and Chicago State (non-football school) left the conference, while Southern Utah (FCS football school) and UT Arlington (non-football school) joined. |
| April 8 2022 | Lamar announced plans to return to the Southland Conference in 2023. |
| 2021 | WAC begins competing in football at the FCS level. |
| 2021 | University of Central Arkansas and Abilene Christian University joined the United Athletic Conference. |
| 2021 | WAC resumed football play with 9 members, including Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, Tarleton State, and Utah Tech joining the conference for the fall season. |
| 2021 | Lamar Cardinals and Sam Houston State join the WAC football conference for a brief period. |
| 2021 | Sam Houston State wins the Western Athletic Conference football championship with a perfect 5-0 conference record. |
| November 5 2021 | New Mexico State and Sam Houston announced they would leave the WAC for Conference USA in 2023. |
| September 17 2021 | ASUN Conference announced Austin Peay State University as a new member for the 2022–23 season, expanding its football-sponsoring schools. |
| July 2021 | The Texas Four universities joined the WAC, earlier than originally planned after being expelled from the Southland Conference. |
| July 2021 | WAC football league establishes a temporary football partnership with the ASUN Conference, branding the league as the ASUN–WAC (or WAC–ASUN) Challenge for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. |
| July 2021 | Four new members (Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston State, and Stephen F. Austin) join the WAC and relaunch football, with Southern Utah's entry scheduled for 2022. |
| January 2021 | By the end of January, three additional schools were brought into WAC football for the 2021 fall season, all of which were incoming members of the ASUN Conference. |
| January 29 2021 | ASUN Conference announced the addition of University of Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky University, and Jacksonville State University, with plans to sponsor football in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2022. |
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