College football comings and goings … After the past couple of years in which the college football landscape was dramatically changed by several major conference re-alignments, its actually been rather quiet this off-season. However, the ranks of FBS programs just grew by two as both Delaware and Missouri State have confirmed that they will both be moving up from the FCS ranks and joining Conference USA. That brings the number of FBS programs to 136. At the same time, though, the NCAA has denied an application for Sacramento State to play as an independent beginning next year. Sac State recently left the Big Sky Conference for the Big West which does not play football. Sac State’s ultimate goal reportedly though is to end up in the Pac-12. And speaking of the Pac-12, Texas State reportedly is close to joining the conference which is looking for an 8th football program. It does have 8 members but Gonzaga does not play football.
