... wasn't what commissioner Karl Benson hoped would happen. In fact, he was almost sure it wasn't going to happen.

To his dismay, and perhaps horror, the nightmare did become reality for the Western Athletic Conference commissioner as three of its top teams will depart for the greener pastures of the Mountain West Conference. It's the second such mutiny against the WAC since eight teams left the conference in 1999 and started the original Mountain West.

That year, it was Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV, Utah, and Wyoming that jumped ship after the 1998 season. The eight teams became nine seven years later when TCU joined the conference.

Five years...

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