 On June 17, 2010, Utah announced it would be leaving the Mountain West to join what would become the Pac-12 Conference.On August 18, 2010, amidst rumors that BYU was considering leaving the Mountain West to go independent in football and rejoin the Western Athletic Conference in all other sports, the Mountain West Conference officially extended invitations to California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) and the University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada).Both schools accepted and would become the tenth and eleventh members of the league.