Western Athletic Conference

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Western Athletic Conference
Status
Active
Years Active
1962-present
Prior Name(s)/Conference(s)
Mountain West Conference (football)
Successor Conference(s)
n/a

The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah and Washington along with the Midwest state of Illinois and the Southern state of Texas.

Due to most of the conference's football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012-13 season and left the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A).

Members

Current members

Abilene Christian Wildcats • California Baptist Lancers • Chicago State Cougars • Dixie State Trailblazers • Grand Canyon Antelopes • Lamar Cardinals • New Mexico State Aggies • Sam Houston State Bearkats • Seattle Redhawks • Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks • Tarleton State Texans • Texas-Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros • Utah Valley Wolverines

Former members

BYU Cougars • TCU Horned Frogs • Utah Utes

Media guides and yearbooks

Media guides

Football

2020s 2020 • 2021
Western Athletic Conference
Full members Abilene Christian Wildcats • California Baptist Lancers • Chicago State Cougars • Dixie State Trailblazers • Grand Canyon Antelopes • Incarnate Word Cardinals • Lamar Cardinals • New Mexico State Aggies • Sam Houston State Bearkats • Seattle Redhawks • Southern Utah Thunderbirds • Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks • Tarleton State Texans • Texas-Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros • Utah Valley Wolverines • UT Arlington Mavericks
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