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This is one of the hardest trivia questions yet. It's a question that most college football diehards and some Utah fans won't know.
Utah joined the Pac-12 in 2011, leaving the Mountain West after 12 seasons. The Mountain West was one of four conferences of which Utah was a member before joining the Pac-12.
The Utes were a member of which four conferences before joining the Pac-12 seven years ago?
Hints:
Two of the three conferences still exist.
One conference competes in Division II.
One conference does not include football-playing schools.
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Answer
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (1910-37)
Mountain States Conference (1938-61)
WAC (1962-98)
Mountain West (1999-2010)
Three of the four conference still exist today.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) was established in 1909, one year before Utah joined, and is now a Division-II league with members in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah.
Utah was a charter member — along with BYU, Colorado, Colorado State (then Colorado A&M), Denver, Utah State and Wyoming — of the Mountain States Conference in 1938. Also known as the Skyline Conference, it folded in 1962.
The WAC still exists, though the nine-team conference no longer includes football-playing schools.
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