UAB, currently a Conference USA member, looks like will be the first FBS school to drop football since Pacific in the early 1990s. I feel bad for UAB as they just overcame a number of losing seasons and finished .500 at 6-6 to be bowl eligiable this year.

Here is a link to a Sports Illustrated story on this: http://www.si.com/college-football/2...letic-director

For those asking about what is the membership like in CUSA, this year with UAB included, they had 13 schools. Charlotte was to join next year to be their 14th school for football (as well as all-other sports).

Here is a link to a map of the current conference layout:

http://www.conferenceusa.com/ot/c-usa-members.html

The football divisions are the East & West. Here are the current layouts of those divisions:
East Division

Florida Atlantic
Owls

Florida International
Golden Panthers

Marshall
Thundering Herd

Middle Tennessee
Blue Raiders

Old Dominion
Monarchs

UAB
Blazers

Western Kentucky
Hilltoppers

West Division

Louisiana Tech
Bulldogs

North Texas
Mean Green

Rice
Owls

Southern Miss
Golden Eagles

UTEP
Miners

UTSA
Roadrunners

Just looking at the conference make-up, this is becoming a conference requiring football so I would imagine that the remainder of the conference will drop UAB and likely look to the Sun Belt to get another full member to get to 14 football playing schools. I would imagine New Mexico State might be the pick as the need a West Division team (as Las Cruces is just 30-40 miles from El Paso) with Charlotte being added to the East.

I would think the Sun Belt would lose that member due to this and then would need to add another school.