These moves resulted in the WAC dropping football as a league-sponsored sport after the 2012 season ; it became the first NCAA Division I FBS conference to drop the sport since the Big West did the same after the 2000 season . The only two remaining football schools , Idaho and New Mexico State , became independent programs for the 2013 season and returned to football-only membership in the Sun Belt Conference starting in 2014 ( both had been either all-sports or football members of the Sun Belt in the early 2000s )
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NCAA Division I FBS independent schools
2010–13 Western Athletic Conference realignment