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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4551764, member: 628"] I guess anything is possible. But there are a bunch of schools upgrading to FBS as we speak. And they're doing it with eyes wide open to the current NIL dynamic, [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35216756/atlantic-sun-wac-teams-pairing-move-fbs-sources-say[/URL] [I]The remaining football members of the Atlantic Sun and WAC have agreed to align to form the foundation of a 10-member football-only conference, sources told ESPN, with the intention of becoming the 11th FBS conference. The schools that have signed on to join the league are WAC football members [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2617/stephen--austin-lumberjacks']Stephen . Austin[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2000/abilene-christian-wildcats']Abilene Christian[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/3101/utah-tech-trailblazers']Utah Tech[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/253/southern-utah-thunderbirds']Southern Utah[/URL] and [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2627/tarleton-texans']Tarleton State[/URL] and Atlantic Sun football members [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2046/austin-peay-governors']Austin Peay[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2198/eastern-kentucky-colonels']Eastern Kentucky[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2110/central-arkansas-bears']Central Arkansas[/URL] and [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2453/north-alabama-lions']North Alabama[/URL]. [URL='https://www.espn.com/football/team/_/id/18834/ut_rio_grande_valley']UT Rio Grande Valley[/URL], which recently announced it is starting a program, is also expected to join in 2025, in that program's first season, as the league's 10th member. The goal is for the conference to start playing in 2024 with nine members. Ambiguity looms around the process to becoming an FBS league, however. All the schools that play in the FCS will also need to go through a formal transition process.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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