Eastern Michigan doesn’t appear ready to drop from the ranks of the FBS, but another teetering program apparently is.
In March of this year, the Sun Belt Conference announced that Idaho and New Mexico State would no longer be a part of the league when their four-year football terms expired following the 2017 season. At the time, Idaho stated that it will now decide whether to accept an invitation to join the Big Sky of the FCS -- the Vandals are a member of that conference in every other sport -- or compete as an independent at the FBS level.
Nearly two months later, and not surprisingly, the Vandals are set to ditch the FBS for the FCS. From FootballScoop.com:Tomorrow, University of Idaho President Chuck Staben will make an announcement regarding the future of Vandal football.
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FCS sources tell FootballScoop this is the route Idaho intends to move and the official conference affiliation will be announced tomorrow.
Idaho spent the past 20 seasons at the FBS level after moving up from the FCS for the 1996 season. Since making that move, the Vandals have appeared in just two bowl games (1998, 2009) and won more than five games in a single season five times, the last in 2010. In the five years since that 6-7 season, the Vandals have gone 9-50.
UPDATED 5:11 p.m. ET: The Idaho Statesman has confirmed that Idaho will drop down to the FCS level for the 2018 season and again become a member of the Big Sky conference.