The WAC discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012 season when most of its football-playing members announced their departures for other conferences , primarily the Mountain West , in the preceding years . The WAC became the first FBS ( formerly Division I-A ) conference to drop football since the Big West Conference did so after the 2000 season . Idaho and New Mexico State , the two WAC football members who remained for 2013 season , temporarily became FBS independents in football
FBS independents
NCAA Division I FBS independent schools
2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season