This conference remained small much like the AWC for its entire existence, ranging from only 5 to 6 football members at any given time.
They will become a football member of the CAA in 2012.
Freedom played in the Dulles District as a full football member in 2007.
Hawaiʻi is a football member of the Mountain West Conference.
The most dominant football member of the remaining WAC had been considering football independence.
All three were being considered as football members.
With six football members in place, the CAA decided to start a football conference in 2007.
The league eventually plans to expand so that it will have eight football members and 2-3 non-football members.
The Great West Conference dropped football after all of its five football members in the 2011 season joined other conferences.
Connecticut was originally scheduled to join the Big East as a football member in 2005.