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Sun Belt Does Not Renew Idaho, NMSU Membership, Will Play with 10 Teams Starting in 2018

The future of both programs is uncertain at this point, but we know they won't be playing football in the Sun Belt any time soon.

For the better part of the past year, there have been rumors swirling about the fates of Sun Belt Conference football-only members the Idaho Vandals and New Mexico State Aggies.

Those rumors, first stirred by the addition of Coastal Carolina as a full member in 2017, were amplified by the release of Idaho's self-deprecating PowerPoint and New Mexico State essentially asking the Sun Belt to keep both them and Idaho around.