All-time members
24
1962-2022
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1962-2022. 24 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 1 national title seasons and 1 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Current/final members
1
Final tracked snapshot
National title seasons
1
Won by member programs while in the league
Heisman winners
1
Heisman-winning seasons from member programs
Current teams
1
Final tracked membership snapshot
Latest champion
No champion available
No champion is available yet
Most conference titles
Unavailable
No official title leader is available yet
Newest members
2021
Sam Houston
Championship format
Standings
2021: Regular-season standings
Division status
No divisions
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Overview
Fast historical context for this conference.
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1962-2022. 24 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 1 national title seasons and 1 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Complete latest member list
Western Athletic Conference teams in the latest CFBTrack snapshot: Sam Houston.
Major eras
- 1962-1967: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
- 1968-1977: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
- 1978: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
- 1979: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
Current/final status
Historical league ending in 2022.
Latest champion: No champion available
Quick facts
- Founded / tracked from
- 1962
- Last tracked season
- 2022
- Standings seasons
- 52
- Title-game seasons
- 3
- Churn score
- 48
Members
All-time membership and tenure overview.
| Team | First season | Last season | Seasons | Status | Titles in conference | Heismans in conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BYU | 1962 | 1998 | 37 | Former | 1 | 1 |
| New Mexico | 1962 | 1998 | 37 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Utah | 1962 | 1998 | 37 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| UTEP | 1968 | 2004 | 37 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 1962 | 1998 | 37 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Hawai'i | 1979 | 2011 | 33 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Colorado State | 1968 | 1998 | 31 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| San Diego State | 1978 | 1998 | 21 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Air Force | 1980 | 1998 | 19 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona | 1962 | 1977 | 16 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona State | 1962 | 1977 | 16 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Louisiana Tech | 2001 | 2012 | 12 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Nevada | 2000 | 2011 | 12 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Boise State | 2001 | 2010 | 10 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Rice | 1996 | 2004 | 9 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| SMU | 1996 | 2004 | 9 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Tulsa | 1996 | 2004 | 9 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| New Mexico State | 2005 | 2012 | 8 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Utah State | 2005 | 2012 | 8 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| TCU | 1996 | 2000 | 5 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| UNLV | 1996 | 1998 | 3 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Sam Houston | 2021 | 2022 | 2 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Jacksonville State | 2021 | 2021 | 1 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas State | 2012 | 2012 | 1 | Former | 0 | 0 |
Membership timeline
Membership events feed
- 2023: Sam Houston departed
- 2022: Jacksonville State departed
- 2021: Jacksonville State joined
- 2021: Sam Houston joined
- 2013: Louisiana Tech departed
- 2013: New Mexico State departed
- 2013: Texas State departed
- 2013: Utah State departed
- 2012: Hawai'i departed
- 2012: Nevada departed
- 2012: Texas State joined
- 2011: Boise State departed
- 2005: Rice departed
- 2005: SMU departed
- 2005: Tulsa departed
- 2005: UTEP departed
- 2005: New Mexico State joined
- 2005: Utah State joined
Standings
Season-aware conference standings, champion context, and tiebreak summary.
View
2022 alignment is available, but no completed conference standings are available yet. Showing latest usable standings: 2021.
View 2022 alignment2021 standings
InferredDerived from 1 completed conference game.
Member count
2
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Champion
Sam Houston
Champion inferred from best conference record.
How this season was decided
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
| Rank | Team | Conference | Win % | Overall | PF | PA | +/- | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Houston Champion | 1-0 | 100.0 | 11-1 | 42 | 7 | 35 | — |
| 2 | Jacksonville State | 0-1 | 0.0 | 5-6 | 7 | 42 | -35 | — |
Champions
Conference title history by season.
| Season | Champion | Co-champion | Qualifiers | Title game | Notes |
|---|
Champion leaders
- No official title leaders are available yet.
Era breakdown
- 1962-1967: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
- 1968-1977: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
- 1978: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
- 1979: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
- 1980-1995: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
- 1996-1998: 14-14 members, championship-game era
- 1999: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
- 2000: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
- 2001-2004: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
- 2005-2010: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
- 2011: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
- 2012: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
- 2021: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 2022: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Structure & Tiebreakers
Era groupings and confidence-based rules context.
1962-1967
Partial1962-1967: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1968: Colorado State joined
- 1968: UTEP joined
- 1962: Arizona joined
- 1962: Arizona State joined
1968-1977
Partial1968-1977: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1978: Arizona departed
- 1978: Arizona State departed
- 1978: San Diego State joined
- 1968: Colorado State joined
1978-1978
Partial1978: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1979: Hawai'i joined
- 1978: Arizona departed
- 1978: Arizona State departed
- 1978: San Diego State joined
1979-1979
Partial1979: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1980: Air Force joined
- 1979: Hawai'i joined
1980-1995
Partial1980-1995: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1996: Rice joined
- 1996: SMU joined
- 1996: TCU joined
- 1996: Tulsa joined
1996-1998
Inferred1996-1998: 14-14 members, championship-game era
Champion inferred from standings plus postseason signal
- 1999: Air Force departed
- 1999: BYU departed
- 1999: Colorado State departed
- 1999: New Mexico departed
1999-1999
Partial1999: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2000: Nevada joined
- 1999: Air Force departed
- 1999: BYU departed
- 1999: Colorado State departed
2000-2000
Partial2000: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2001: TCU departed
- 2001: Boise State joined
- 2001: Louisiana Tech joined
- 2000: Nevada joined
2001-2004
Partial2001-2004: 8-8 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2005: Rice departed
- 2005: SMU departed
- 2005: Tulsa departed
- 2005: UTEP departed
2005-2010
Partial2005-2010: 6-6 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2011: Boise State departed
- 2005: Rice departed
- 2005: SMU departed
- 2005: Tulsa departed
2011-2011
Partial2011: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2012: Hawai'i departed
- 2012: Nevada departed
- 2012: Texas State joined
- 2011: Boise State departed
2012-2012
Partial2012: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2013: Louisiana Tech departed
- 2013: New Mexico State departed
- 2013: Texas State departed
- 2013: Utah State departed
2021-2021
Partial2021: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2022: Jacksonville State departed
- 2021: Jacksonville State joined
- 2021: Sam Houston joined
2022-2022
Partial2022: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 2023: Sam Houston departed
- 2022: Jacksonville State departed
Division history
Historical division assignments are not stored in the current dataset.
Selected season tiebreak summary
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
Realignment
Membership changes and before/after conference snapshots.
Join events
24
Derived from membership starts
Departure events
24
Derived after final membership season
Newest member
Jacksonville State
Joined in 2021
Longest member
BYU
37 seasons
Shared members
Joined since start
- Sam Houston
Departed since start
- Arizona
- Arizona State
- BYU
- New Mexico
- Utah
- Wyoming
Realignment timeline
- 2023: Sam Houston departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2022 season.
- 2022: Jacksonville State departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2021 season.
- 2021: Jacksonville State joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2021 season.
- 2021: Sam Houston joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2021 season.
- 2013: Louisiana Tech departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2012 season.
- 2013: New Mexico State departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2012 season.
- 2013: Texas State departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2012 season.
- 2013: Utah State departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2012 season.
- 2012: Hawai'i departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2011 season.
- 2012: Nevada departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2011 season.
- 2012: Texas State joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2012 season.
- 2011: Boise State departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2010 season.
- 2005: Rice departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2004 season.
- 2005: SMU departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2004 season.
- 2005: Tulsa departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2004 season.
- 2005: UTEP departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2004 season.
- 2005: New Mexico State joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2005 season.
- 2005: Utah State joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2005 season.
- 2001: TCU departed Western Athletic Conference after the 2000 season.
- 2001: Boise State joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2001 season.
- 2001: Louisiana Tech joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2001 season.
- 2000: Nevada joined Western Athletic Conference for the 2000 season.
- 1999: Air Force departed Western Athletic Conference after the 1998 season.
- 1999: BYU departed Western Athletic Conference after the 1998 season.
Records
Conference-level leaderboards and contribution summaries.
Most conference titles
N/A
No title leader inferred yet.
Longest membership tenure
BYU
37 tracked seasons
Newest member
Jacksonville State
First joined in 2021
Most reshaped metric
48
24 joins and 24 departures tracked.
Team contribution leaderboard
In-conference totals only count seasons when the program was a member. All-time totals count the full program history.
| Team | Conference titles | National title seasons (in conference) | National title seasons (all-time) | Heismans (in conference) | Heismans (all-time) | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BYU | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 37 |
| TCU | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| SMU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Air Force | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Arizona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Boise State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Colorado State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Hawai'i | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Jacksonville State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Louisiana Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Nevada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| New Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| New Mexico State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Rice | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Sam Houston | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| San Diego State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Texas State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tulsa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| UNLV | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Utah | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Utah State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| UTEP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Wyoming | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
Data Sources
How CFBTrack treats membership, standings, champions, and future-season caveats.
Membership is tracked from curated CFBTrack conference tables. Standings and champions may be official, curated, or inferred depending on season. Future seasons are provisional until games are played and source records settle.
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