Much to the chagrin of Little Sisters of the Poor everywhere, the opportunity to join a P5 conference has gotten even slimmer. The new rules, as voted on by representatives from each conference, allow for the Big 12 to have a conference championship, and not have to expand. The Big 12 will (most likely) play a round-robin schedule and have the top two teams play in a conference championship.
This decision may affect the University of Idaho in a couple of ways:
Sun Belt's big decision: — Keep ID/NSMU as FB-only and get title game when Coastal joins in 2017, or — Cut them and play 1 more conf game
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) January 13, 2016
Now that the Sun Belt can just play a round-robin schedule they do not necessarily need neither New Mexico State nor Idaho.