UC Davis Athletics Joining Mountain West - Football to Follow from reddit: While Sacramento State was yelling about how they're a lock for the Pac-12, Davis quietly announced they were moving from the Big West to the Mountain West as a non-football member in 2026, but the agreement includes that the Mountain West has to give priority to UC Davis before inviting another FCS school. So Davis is still a football affiliate in the Big Sky, but everyone knows that they have one foot out the door
this is exactly what I am talking about, I think these moves from davis and the big sky are correlated despite sac decisions seeming to push everything.