Western Athletic Conference football

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Sport Football
Conference Western Athletic Conference
Number of teams8
Played1962–2012, 2021–2022
Current champion Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
Abilene Christian Wildcats
Most championships BYU Cougars (19)
Official website WACSports.com Football

The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) sponsored football and crowned a champion every year from 1962 to 2012. Once considered one of the best conferences in college football, steady attrition from 1999 to 2012 forced the WAC to drop football after fifty-one years. [1]

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On January 14, 2021, the WAC announced its intention to reinstate football as a conference-sponsored sport at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level, as well as the addition of five new members to the conference in all sports, including football. [2] The new members announced include: Abilene Christian University, Lamar University, Sam Houston State University, and Stephen F. Austin State University, all currently of the Southland Conference (SLC), along with Southern Utah University, currently of the Big Sky Conference. Original plans were for all new members to join in July 2022, but after the SLC expelled its departing members, the WAC moved the arrival of those four schools and the relaunch of football to July 2021. Southern Utah's entry remained on the 2022 schedule. [3] [4] The WAC football league also included Dixie State University (renamed Utah Tech University in 2022) and Tarleton State University, both of which played as FCS independents in 2020–21 after having moved from NCAA Division II to the WAC for non-football sports in July 2020. The conference also announced that it will most likely add another football-playing institution at a later date. The conference has been speculated to move back up to the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in the future following the reestablishment of the football conference at the FCS level. [5]

On the same day, news broke that The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), a non-football playing member of the conference, had committed to create an FCS football program by 2024. [6] At the time, the program would most likely have competed as part of the newly-reinstated WAC football conference.

For its first two planned seasons in 2021 and 2022, the relaunched WAC football league was branded as the ASUN–WAC (or WAC–ASUN) Challenge, with the WAC establishing a temporary football partnership with the ASUN Conference. The ASUN eventually started its own FCS football league in 2022. Under the partnership, three FCS programs that joined the ASUN in July 2021 played alongside current WAC members. [7] [8]

The ASUN–WAC partnership was renewed for the 2022 season after the start of FBS transitions by ASUN member Jacksonville State and WAC member Sam Houston rendered both ineligible for the FCS playoffs, also dropping both conferences below the 6 football members needed to qualify for an automatic berth in the FCS playoffs. [9] The WAC's playoff-eligible membership soon dropped further to 3, after Incarnate Word backed out of its planned move from the SLC to the WAC [10] and Lamar, which had announced it would leave the WAC in 2023 to return to the SLC, accelerated this move to 2022. [11]

The 2022 season proved to be the last for the WAC as a standalone football conference. On December 20, 2022, the ASUN and WAC jointly announced that they would fully merge their football conferences effective with the 2023 season under the tentative name of ASUN–WAC Football Conference. The ASUN is contributing Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and North Alabama to the new league, with the WAC contributing Abilene Christian, Southern Utah, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton, and Utah Tech. UTRGV, which put off the start of its football program to 2025, will join at that time. The merged conference will play a six-game schedule in 2023 before adopting a full round-robin in 2024. [12] [13]

Former members

The WAC has 29 former football-playing members.

TeamFirst YearLast YearWAC TitlesCurrent Primary Conference
Air Force Falcons 198019983 Mountain West
Arizona Wildcats 196219772 Pac-12
Big 12 (2024)
Arizona State Sun Devils 196219777 Pac-12
Big 12 (2024)
Boise State Broncos 200120108 Mountain West
BYU Cougars 1962199819 Big 12
Fresno State Bulldogs 199220113 Mountain West
Colorado State Rams 196719983 Mountain West
Hawaii Warriors 197920114 Mountain West
Idaho Vandals 200520120 Big Sky
Lamar Cardinals 202120210 Southland
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 200120122 C-USA
UNLV Rebels 199619980 Mountain West
Nevada Wolf Pack 200020112 Mountain West
New Mexico Lobos 196219982 Mountain West
New Mexico State Aggies 200520120 C-USA
Rice Owls 199620040 The American
San Diego State Aztecs 197819981 Mountain West
San Jose State Spartans 199620120 Mountain West
SMU Mustangs 199620040 The American
ACC (2024)
TCU Horned Frogs 199620002 Big 12
UTEP Miners 196720041 C-USA
UTSA Roadrunners 201220120 The American
Texas State Bobcats 201220120 Sun Belt
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 199620040 The American
Utah Utes 196219982 Pac-12
Big 12 (2024)
Utah State Aggies 200520121 Mountain West
Wyoming Cowboys 196219987 Mountain West
Sam Houston State 202120221 C-USA
Stephen F. Austin 202120231 Southland

Current members

The WAC resumed play in the 2021 fall season with 9 members. Before the reinstatement of football was officially announced, media reports indicated that the WAC might add two more schools to join the conference for football. [14] On the same day that WAC confirmed the return of football, full conference member UTRGV announced that it would start an FCS football program no later than 2024. By the end of January 2021, three more schools were brought into WAC football for the 2021 fall season only. All are incoming members of the ASUN Conference, which plans to start an FCS football league in 2022. [15] The WAC–ASUN Challenge consists of the seven teams that are eligible for the FCS playoffs. Utah Tech and Tarleton are included in alliance scheduling, but because of their ongoing transitions from NCAA Division II to Division I are ineligible for the playoffs until the 2024 season. Games against these schools do not count in alliance standings, although games against full WAC members count in the separate WAC league table. [7] [8] Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State left the WAC for the 2023 season as they began transitioning to the FBS level as members of Conference USA. In 2023, the ASUN–WAC Challenge became the United Athletic Conference and became a full FCS conference. Stephen F. Austin and UT Rio Grande Valley left the WAC for the Southland Conference before the 2024 season, prior to UTRGV having their first ever season of college football.

TeamLocationNicknameStadiumCapacityCurrent Primary ConferenceStarting Year
Abilene Christian Abilene, TX Wildcats Anthony Field at Wildcat Stadium 12,000 WAC 2021
Central Arkansas Conway, AR Bears Estes Stadium 12,000 ASUN 2021
Eastern Kentucky Richmond, KY Colonels Roy Kidd Stadium 20,000 ASUN 2021
Southern Utah Cedar City, UT Thunderbirds Eccles Coliseum 8,500 WAC 2022
Tarleton State Stephenville, TX Texans Memorial Stadium 17,000 WAC 2021
Utah Tech St. George, UT Trailblazers Greater Zion Stadium 10,000 WAC 2021

Conference championships

By year

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A 2007 WAC game, Boise State at Hawaii
SeasonChampionConference record
1962 New Mexico 2–1–1
1963 Arizona State 3–0
1964 Arizona 3–1
New Mexico 3–1
Utah 3–1
1965 BYU 4–1
1966 Wyoming 5–0
1967 Wyoming 5–0
1968 Wyoming 6–1
1969 Arizona State 6–1
1970 Arizona State 7–0
1971 Arizona State 7–0
1972 Arizona State 5–1
1973 Arizona 6–1
Arizona State 6–1
1974 BYU 6–0–1
1975 Arizona State 7–0
1976 BYU 6–1
Wyoming 6–1
1977 Arizona State 6–1
BYU 6–1
1978 BYU 5–1
1979 BYU 7–0
1980 BYU 6–1
1981 BYU 7–1
1982 BYU 7–1
1983 BYU 7–0
1984 BYU 8–0
1985 Air Force 7–1
BYU 7–1
1986 San Diego State 7–1
1987 Wyoming 8–0
1988 Wyoming 8–0
1989 BYU 7–1
1990 BYU 7–1
1991 BYU 7–0–1
1992 BYU 6–2
Fresno State 6–2
Hawaii 6–2
1993 BYU 6–2
Fresno State 6–2
Wyoming 6–2
1994 Colorado State 7–1
1995 Air Force 6–2
BYU 6–2
Colorado State 6–2
Utah 6–2
1996 BYU 8–0
1997 Colorado State 7–1
1998 Air Force 7–1
1999 Hawaii 5–2
Fresno State 5–2
TCU 5–2
2000 TCU 7–1
UTEP 7–1
2001 Louisiana Tech 7–1
2002 Boise State 8–0
2003 Boise State 8–0
2004 Boise State 8–0
2005 Boise State 7–1
Nevada 7–1
2006 Boise State 8–0
2007 Hawaii 8–0
2008 Boise State 8–0
2009 Boise State 8–0
2010 Boise State 7–1
Nevada 7–1
Hawaii 7–1
2011 Louisiana Tech 6–1
2012 Utah State 6–0
2013–2020Dropped football
2021 Sam Houston State 5–0
2022 Stephen F. Austin 3–1
Abilene Christian 3–1

By team

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Members of the 2008 WAC champion Boise State team, before a game against Nevada
TeamChampionships
TotalOutrightShared
BYU19136
Boise State862
Arizona State752
Wyoming752
Hawaii413
Colorado State321
Air Force312
Fresno State303
Louisiana Tech220
New Mexico220
Arizona202
Nevada202
TCU202
Utah202
Sam Houston State110
San Diego State110
UTEP101
Utah State110
Abilene Christian101
Stephen F. Austin101

Championship game

Bowl games

The first bowl game appearance by a WAC team was at the 1964 Liberty Bowl, where Utah defeated West Virginia of the Southern Conference, 32–6. [16]

The WAC had conference tie-ins with various bowl games during its history, including:

Bowl Championship Series

The WAC champion received an automatic berth in one of the five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games if they were the highest ranked non-automatic qualifying conference champion and either of the following:

By qualifying under the first criterion above, Boise State landed a berth in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, and Hawaii received a bid to play in the 2008 Sugar Bowl. In 2009, the Mountain West champion TCU Horned Frogs received the automatic BCS bid by finishing higher than Boise State in the final BCS rankings. However, Boise State received a BCS at-large bid and defeated TCU in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl. In three BCS bowl games, the WAC recorded two wins and one loss. In addition to those three teams that played in BCS bowls, four other WAC teams qualified for a BCS berth but were not selected to play in a BCS bowl game: TCU in 2000 and Boise State in 2004, 2008, and 2010.

BowlWACOpponent
TeamScoreTeamScoreConference
2007 Fiesta Bowl #9 Boise State 43#7 Oklahoma 42 Big 12
2008 Sugar Bowl #10 Hawaii 10#4 Georgia 41 SEC
2010 Fiesta Bowl #6 Boise State 17#3 TCU 10 Mountain West

Rivalries

Notable football rivalries involving WAC teams are listed below. Records are not limited to years that the WAC was active.

TeamsRivalryYearsGamesSeries leader (W–L–T)Current win streakRef.
Idaho Boise State Governor's Trophy 1971–201040Boise State (22–17–1)Boise State (12) [17]
New Mexico State New Mexico Rio Grande Rivalry 1894–2018109New Mexico (71–33–5)New Mexico (1) [18]
New Mexico State UTEP The Battle of I-10 1914–201896UTEP (57–37–2)New Mexico State (2) [19]
San Jose State Fresno State Valley Rivalry 1921–201882Fresno State (42–37–3)Fresno State (2) [20]
Sam Houston State Stephen F. Austin Battle of the Piney Woods 1923–Present95Sam Houston State (58–35–2)Sam Houston State (10) [21]
Utah State BYU Old Wagon Wheel 1922–201888BYU (48–37–3)Utah State (2) [22]
Utah State Utah Battle of the Brothers 1892–2015113Utah (79–30–4)Utah (2) [23]

Divisional alignment

Starting in 1996, the 16 conference members were divided info four pods, each with four teams. Two pods comprised the Pacific Division, and the other two pods were the Mountain Division. Pod one would always compete in Pacific, while pod four would always compete in Mountain. The other two pods were scheduled to swap divisions every two years, with the new alignment to take effect in even-numbered years. The pods and divisional alignment were discontinued after 1998.

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San Diego State
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San Jose State
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UNLV
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Air Force
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Colorado State
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Wyoming
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BYU
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New Mexico
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Utah
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WAC member locations during the four-pod system (1996–1998)
PodTeamsDivision
199619971998
1 Fresno State
Hawaii
San Diego State
San Jose State
PacificPacificPacific
2 Air Force
Colorado State
UNLV
Wyoming
PacificPacificMountain
3 BYU
New Mexico
Utah
UTEP
MountainMountainPacific
4 Rice
SMU
TCU
Tulsa
MountainMountainMountain

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