Originally Posted by
HogDawg
You're mistaken '06. In the early years, one WAC team was always omitted from each WAC team's football schedule each year. For instance in 2001 --the first year LA Tech won the WAC title-- LA Tech did NOT play Hawaii. In fact, Tech did not play Hawaii in 2001 or 2002, and did not play San Jose St in 2003 and 2004.
For the 2005 season, the WAC dropped from 10 teams to 9 teams, when it lost Rice, SMU & Tulsa to CUSA. Those schools were replaced by Idaho and NMSU. That was the first year (for us) that every WAC member played each other in football.