center;" |- ! Team || Location || Nickname || Stadium || Capacity ||Current Primary Conference || Starting Year |- |Abilene Christian |Abilene, TX |Wildcats |Anthony Field at Wildcat Stadium |12,000 | WAC |2021 |- | Central Arkansas | Conway, AR | Bears |Estes Stadium |12,000 | ASUN |2021 |- |Eastern Kentucky |Richmond, KY |Colonels |Roy Kidd Stadium |20,000 | ASUN |2021 |- |Jacksonville State |Jacksonville, AL |Gamecocks |Burgess–Snow Field at JSU Stadium |24,000 | ASUN |2021 |- |Sam Houston State |Huntsville, TX |Bearkats |Bowers Stadium |12,593 | WAC |2021 |- |Stephen F. Austin |Nacogdoches, TX |Lumberjacks |Homer Bryce Stadium |14,575 | WAC |2021 |- |Tarleton State |Stephenville, TX |Texans |Memorial Stadium |17,000 | WAC |2021 |- |Southern Utah |Cedar City, UT |Thunderbirds |Eccles Coliseum |8,500 |WAC |2022 |- |Utah Tech| |Trailblazers |Greater Zion Stadium |10,000 | WAC |2021 |- |UTRGV'|Edinburg, TX |Vaqueros |TBD |TBD |WAC(forming a new program) |2024 |} Conference championships By year By team Championship game Bowl games The first bowl game appearance by a WAC team was at the 1964 Liberty Bowl, where Utah defeated West Virginia of the Southern Conference, 32–6. The WAC had conference tie-ins with various bowl games during its history, including: Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (2000–2012) Hawaii Bowl (2002–2011) Holiday Bowl (1978–1997) Bowl Championship Series The WAC champion received an automatic berth in one of the five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games if they were the highest ranked non-automatic qualifying conference champion and either of the following: Ranked in the top 12 of the BCS Rankings. Ranked in the top 16 of the BCS Rankings and its ranking was higher than that of an automatic qualifying conference champion. By qualifying under the first criterion above, Boise State landed a berth in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, and Hawaii received a bid to play in the 2008 Sugar Bowl. In 2009, the Mountain West champion TCU Horned Frogs received the automatic BCS bid by finishing higher than Boise State in the final BCS rankings. However, Boise State received a BCS at-large bid and defeated TCU in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl. In three BCS bowl games, the WAC recorded two wins and one loss. In addition to those three teams that played in BCS bowls, four other WAC teams qualified for a BCS berth but were not selected to play in a BCS bowl game: TCU in 2000 and Boise State in 2004, 2008, and