At a February 23, 2021 press conference, the ASUN and Western Athletic Conference (WAC) jointly announced that the two conferences had entered into a football partnership. The WAC had announced plans to restart a football league at the FCS level starting in the 2021 season, but lacked enough football-playing members to receive an automatic FCS playoff berth. The three incoming ASUN members will play in the WAC football league until the ASUN starts its own football league, most likely in 2022.