WAC-ASUN announce the 2023 football schedule
12/20/2022 1:02:00 PM | Football
The ASUN Conference and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) presented the fall 2023 schedule to officially announce the third consecutive year of the two-conference partnership. The ASUN-WAC partnership will function in the manner of a single sport conference beginning January 1, 2023. The 2023 schedule, based on existing commitments, will be limited to six conference games.
"Announcing our 2023 schedule is a major step in the evolution of this partnership," said WAC Commissioner Brian Thornton. "Operating in this single sport model creates the legitimacy and strength shared by similarly structured conferences."
The ASUN-WAC Football partnership began with a combined group that built the ASUN-WAC Challenge in 2021. Featuring an automatic qualifier (AQ) into the FCS playoff each of the past two years, the football group enters year three with nine participating institutions: Abilene Christian University, Austin Peay State University, University of Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky University, University of North Alabama, Southern Utah University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Tarleton State University and Utah Tech University. The group will add the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) in the fall of 2025 when it begins sponsorship of football.
"This partnership has built competitive opportunities, created a new AQ for the FCS playoffs, and brought a great group of like-minded institutions together to play football," said ASUN Commissioner Ted Gumbart. "We are planning for a long and strong relationship in this group and it provides certainty and security for our football programs and for the strength of both the WAC and the ASUN in all sports."
The group is currently building the 2024 schedule which will feature a full eight-game single round robin. Future schedules are also being constructed as part of the multi-year conference agreement.
The Wildcats will kick off their conference schedule on the road in 2023, traveling to Central Arkansas on September 23. The team will not see another conference opponent until October 14 when they host North Alabama. The rest of the schedule will feature the WAC opponents, on the road at SFA on October 21, at Southern Utah on October 28, hosting Utah Tech on Nov. 4, and closing the schedule hosting Tarleton on November 11.
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