Conference Realignment: Temple, San Jose State Among Candidates To Join MWC, C-USA Merger

Over the next year or so, almost every college or university with a Division I-FBS football program that is not married to their current situation is going to be linked to the new MWC-CUSA megaconference. Conference-USA and the Mountain West announced their merger on Monday, making one conference with 16 schools. Before they're done moving things around, they will have somewhere between 18 and 24 members. The latest schools to get linked to the megaconference are Temple and San Jose State.

New Mexico State, Utah State, Louisiana Tech and Florida international have been mentioned as previous candidates for a move (here and here), and now a report from the Salt Lake Tribune is mentioning San Jose State and Temple as possible candidates for a move. Though that list includes a couple of WAC names, the only real thing that this list of schools has in common is that they're not with one of the major conferences at the moment.

For more new on the MWC-CUSA merger, visit Mountain West Connection or check out this storystream.