Yah with them leaving for the A10 opened up more schools moving. The MVC will be adding Belmont, Murray State & University of Illinois-Chicago next year to have 12 schools. Not sure about UIC or Belmont but Murray State is also going through the process of possibly joining the MVFC.
This offseason is particularly crazy for conference realignment, except that basically none of it is happening in the 6 major conferences (Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC, but in 2025, and the Big 12 is adding Houston, UCF BYU, and Cincinnati in 2024)
To replace Houston/UCF/Cincinnati, the American invited half the MWC, but they all declined. Instead they'll be adding 6 CUSA teams: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, UAB, North Texas, Rice and Texas-San Antonio, giving them 14 members.
Losing 6 teams scared the rest of CUSA, so they started scattering. Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall are going to the Sun Belt. Sun Belt also added James Madison from the CAA to even out the teams. The Sun Belt also booted its two non-football members, Arkansas-Little Rock and Texas-Arlington, so Little Rock is going to the Ohio Valley conference and UT Arlington is going to the WAC.
Since this left 5 members to CUSA for next year, they scrambled to add teams to maintain the conference minimum (6 for basketball, 8 for football) and are adding Liberty and Jacksonville State from the ASUN and New Mexico State and Sam Houston State from the WAC (Sam Houston State just joined the WAC this year)
The WAC, then, having lost 2 teams (and adding UT Arlington from the Sun Belt), added Incarnate Word from the Southland, but Chicago State announced they were leaving the conference this season. Southern Utah from the Big Sky will also be joining in 2022, putting the WAC at 13 total members next year.
The ASUN conference so far has replaced Liberty and Jacksonville State (who both just joined the ASUN this season) with Austin Peay out of the OVC, but they're still looking (in D-2, allegedly) for more schools so they can have the minimum required football schools. Until then, they'll play a joint football conference schedule with the WAC.
The OVC is losing Austin Peay, Belmont and Murray State, leaving them with too few schools for football. They are replacing them with Little Rock (shown earlier), Lindenwood and Southern Indiana, two schools coming from D-2.
The CAA, which lost James Madison, is adding Monmouth from the MAAC, Hampton and North Carolina A&T from the Big South, and Stony Brook from the America East.
The Big South and Big Sky will each be left with 10 teams.
The America East conference is losing Stony Brook and Hartford (transitioning to D-3), leaving them with 8 members.
The Atlantic 10 is adding Loyola, which will give them 15 members next season.
The MVC is losing Loyola IL but gaining Illinois Chicago, Belmont and Murray State, putting them at 11 members.
Horizon League is losing UIC, leaving them with 11 members
MAAC is losing Monmouth, leaving them with 10 members.
WCC is losing BYU, leaving them with 9 members.
