The Mountain West and Conference USA are going to combine into a 22-member football superconference.
The conference will be the largest among Division I NCAA football conferences and will spread across five time zones from North Carolina to Hawaii.
The superconference will be made up of C-USA teams East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UCF and UTEP, as well as Mountain West teams Colorado State, San Diego State, Boise State, Wyoming, UNLV, New Mexico and Air Force.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said the leagues made the move to join instead of waiting for teams to be poached or otherwise affected by conference realignment.
The conferences did not say when the merger would take place, nor what the new association would be called.
With the conferences as they stand today, it's only 19 schools (20 if you count TCU, which is headed to the Big 12) so, obviously, there's more to come.
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