... West Conference if it plans to leave the conference in 2011.

One of the current options for the school is to move forward and go independent in football and move all of its other athletic teams to the Western Athletic Conference.

In order for the WAC to continue into the future, it would need to add two additional schools, perhaps North Texas from the Sun Belt along with a program moving up from the FCS such as Montana or UC Davis.

They would join Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State, Louisiana Tech, Idaho and Hawaii in a severely weakened conference.

A big factor in BYU’s original plan to go independent was that the Cougars would be helped out with scheduling for football by playing four to six WAC teams...

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