The first non-football conference to make a significant move during this realignment cycle was the West Coast Conference ( WCC ) , which officially invited Mountain West member Brigham Young University ( BYU ) on August 31 , 2010 . The move to the WCC , which followed a period in which BYU had flirted with a return to its one-time conference home of the WAC , gave BYU 's non-football sports a home while its football program chose to become independent
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NCAA Division I FBS independent schools
2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment