What is Big Sky Conference?
The '''Big Sky Conference''' is a NCAA conference that play in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]]. The conference is headquartered in [[Ogden, Utah]] and features universities and colleges from the Western United States. In [[American football|football]], the league plays in the second-level Division I FCS. ==Members== As of the 2017–18 school year, the Big Sky has 12 full members, or schools that play almost all of their sports in the conference. Of these schools, only Idaho does not play [[American football|football]] in the conference. Its team in that sport plays in the top-level Division I FBS as a single-sport member of the [[Sun Belt Conference]]. After the full Sun Belt members decided not to renew their football membership contract with Idaho when it expired after the 2017 season, Idaho decided to downgrade its football program to the FCS level and return to Big Sky football in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/25568947/idaho-will-become-first-team-to-drop-from-fbs-to-fcs-in-2018 |title=Idaho will become first team to drop from FBS to FCS in 2018 |first=Dennis |last=Dodd |publisher=CBSSports.com |date=April 27, 2016 |access-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430033932/http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/25568947/idaho-will-become-first-team-to-drop-from-fbs-to-fcs-in-2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> North Dakota left the non-football side of the Big Sky to join the Summit League, home to many of its traditional rivals, in 2018.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://thesummitleague.org/general/2016-17/releases/20170126g1swrw |title=The Summit League Adds The University of North Dakota |publisher=The Summit League |date=January 26, 2017 |access-date=January 27, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040002/http://thesummitleague.org/general/2016-17/releases/20170126g1swrw }}<