Extra Points publisher Matt Brown reports Southern Utah and Utah Tech will move from the WAC to the Big Sky, with Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger adding: “Per sources, the ASUN & WAC are forming an ‘alliance,’ where 5 FB-playing ASUN members will move in 2026 into the WAC, which will then rebrand as United Athletic Conference. […] The departure of the Utah schools + addition of 5 ASUN schools brings the United Athletic Conference in 2026 to 8 members, seven of them playing football: Tarleton, Abilene Christian, UT-Arlington, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, Austin Peay, Central Arkansas & West Georgia. The ASUN will be left with seven more like-minded basketball-centric schools. Those members include Bellarmine, Lipscomb, Queens, Jacksonville U, North Florida, Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast. The two conferences - the ASUN & UAC - will remain separate, hold individual championships & each retain their NCAA AQ, but will work together to leverage their collective assets such as a unified media package and a built-in scheduling agreement.” (link, link)