The Western Athletic Conference officially welcomes Texas San Antonio, Texas State and Denver (Non-Football). Beginning in 2012, that will be 8 schools for football and 9 for men's and women's basketball.
According to ESPN.com, there is also an open invitation to Montana should they decide to move to the FBS. After reading Jim O'Day's comments in the Missoulian last week, that may not be in 2012 but sometime later. The WAC's model is for 9 football schools and 10 schools in other sports.
Of course these new schools will not completely fill the hole left by Boise State, Fresno State and Nevada, right away but the silver lining for the WAC is that it will have a foothold in the fertile Texas recruiting grounds and will give the WAC presumable access to another bowl game at the new bigger Texas State Stadium in San Marcos.
The scheduling agreement with BYU will likely continue beyond 2012 and Cougar fans should expect to see Texas State and UTSA visit LaVell Edwards Stadium in the near future.
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