According to Yahoo\u2019s Ross Dellenger, the MAC has voted to add Sacramento State into the league as a football-only member. Sacramento State is making the jump up from the FCS level and doing so right away. <\/p>\n
Dellenger adds the Hornets will begin playing in the league this upcoming season. On3\u2019s Pete Nakos has since confirmed the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cMAC presidents today approved for the league to move forward with the addition of Sacramento State as a football-only member, sources tell @YahooSports<\/a>,\u201d Dellenger said<\/a> via X. \u201cThe school will pay an entry fee of $18 million. Finalization of the deal is imminent. Hornets will begin play this season.<\/p>\n \u201cThe move is somewhat historic in nature: Sacramento State becomes the first West Coast university (California, Oregon, Washington) to move its football program from FCS to FBS in 57 years (Fresno and San Diego State in 1969).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Yahoo\u2019s Ross Dellenger, the MAC has voted to add Sacramento State into the league as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-178599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}