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Goodbye to the WAC: The Rise of the College-Football Mega-Conference

The WAC could be the first Division I conference to drop football since the Southwest Conference in 1995, writes David Roth. The SWC disappeared entirely a year later.

David Roth
David Roth
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David Roth

David Roth

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