During a Tuesday afternoon teleconference, Sun Belt Conference commissioner Karl Benson and Texas State University president Dr. Denise Trauth announced that the Sun Belt will be a 10-team football conference beginning with the 2018 season. In order to get to that number, a conference that has already seen plenty of schools come in and out of membership over the last four years has shaken things up even more. Both New Mexico State and Idaho — brought in as football-only members prior to the 2014 season — will have their contracts with the Sun Belt expire and will not be offered a renewal.