WAC FBS - could qualify for CFP payments in 2025. Could be much more than $1 mill per team

WAC FCS - not a dime except for playoff travel payments. The host pays for hosting.

If money makes the world go around, which one wins?

The domino effect for all the changes to occur is beginning shortly.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46464699/sources-dixie-state-to-join-the-western-athletic-conference-play-football-as-fcs-independent

Dixie St feasibility study said that Dixie St should not move up without an FCS conference. Dixie St would be the WAC first FCS team.

Think of how a new WAC would open up the field for UCDavis sports other than fb.

Baseball: Davis will be the favorite.
MBb: NMSU will be hard to overcome, but your no longer in a SOCal league.
Soccer M&W: Davis the favorite
W Volleyball: Davis the favorite
Most women’s sports: Davis the favorite

Some sports that the WAC doesn’t sponsor, you’ll remain in the Big West. But that means you have to give them notice, which you did by ensuring Bake and UCSD are in.

After FBS is transitioned, you’ll shoot to the top of the MWC list.

Montana, Montana St, UCDavis and Slac St have no patience with coaches lately if they don’t win, and there’s a good reason for that. They need a winning FCS team as they prepare for FBS silently.

The NCAA allows a school to pay 1/3 the price for tickets if don’t meet the 15k threshold for FBS. E Mich has not met the 15k threshold for years. Mostly, the NCAA just makes a school meet 15k in the second year of transition to FBS.

But Slac St can meet that requirement. UCDavis can’t until they build out the stadium, which was always the plan.

Texas wants a deal like Notre Dame with the ACC. Oklahoma won’t stay in the Big 12 w/o Texas. Ideally, they want the B1G or SEC.

The Big Ten would take both as would the PAC12. Kansas may be in play too. The Big 12could be crumbs taking teams from the AAC and MWC.

Slac St doesn't need stadium upgrades as they have 15k. Can add women's lax like Davis has.

Taylor only took the job because Sac St promised to go FBS. If Sac was staying FCS, it would have been a career killer.

The MWC won’t take an FCS UCDavis. They will take a FBS UCDavis.

When the Big 12 loses Texas and Oklahoma and perhaps Kansas, the MWC will lose some schools too. Davis will almost be first to get a call if you are FBS. UTEP, Rice, and UTSA will be the others.

All of the,Montana's, Weber St and the Dakotas have made major improvements to their student athlete practice facilities. EWU will make some decisions this month.

But lo and behold UCDavis just invested $40 mill in an enhanced facility to make further in roads on FBS recruiting and renamed the stadium UC Davis Health Stadium, while the AD gets naming rights.


An attempt to wrest away athletes from Fresno and,SJSU in the future.

Slac St has horrible facilities for bb. The BW wants peace between the UC and Cal St schools so one can't overvote the other. Sac St would have given UCDavis a travel partner, but soon the BW will be a Southern California league with one Hawaii trip. Sux St is supposedly building a new arena now, but the BW isn't interested.

The WAC will set up its own Bowl deals. The Potatoe Boise Bowl, the new Tucson Bowl, the new Frisco Bowl and maybe a new bowl in Salt Lake can be had.

Coastal Carolina moved up to FBS with under 8000 attendance and under 10k seats. They expanded their stadium to nearly 20k and went to a bowl game their first year eligible.

Except for the facility cost, FBS may be cheaper than FCS. Playing at UC or UCLA or some P5 will get you 3 times the rate of an FCS school. Tie in the CFP payment, conference TV and bowl deals and the increased media (counts as advertising), and it's cheaper at FBS if you have an FBS conference.

UCDavis and Cal Poly would have moved up earlier in this decade, but state budgets derailed that. For a research school, playing in FCS or DII is downright embarrassing for college administrators.

What SJSU does, UCDavis should do much better.

It’s FBS or drop football altogether.

The MWC won’t take a FCS moveup. UCDavis needs too spend time in a lower FBS league.

If UCDavis has aspirations, it needs to move soon.