Three other ASUN schools sponsor football but will not play that sport in the ASUN. The new ASUN football league, launching in 2022, will feature Austin Peay, the three 2021 arrivals, Kennesaw State, and North Alabama. Both conferences will play separate league schedules, with officials from each conference choosing their one automatic playoff team. This led the ASUN and WAC to renew their football partnership for 2022. The WAC lost two of its planned six playoff-eligible members in 2022, with Sam Houston starting an FBS transition ahead of its 2023 move to C-USA and Incarnate Word backing out of a planned move to the WAC and remaining in the Southland Conference. JSU began a transition to FBS in 2022, making it ineligible for the FCS playoffs. However, the ASUN would lose one of those six members when Jacksonville State announced a 2023 move to Conference USA (C-USA).

When Peay was announced as an incoming ASUN member, it gave the conference six members that play FCS football and award scholarships for that sport, which is the number of teams needed for a conference to receive an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. The next membership change came in July 2022 with the arrival of football-sponsoring Austin Peay State University from the OVC and non-football Queens University of Charlotte from the Division II South Atlantic Conference. Under the agreement, the three newest members, all of which play FCS football, became de facto WAC football members for that season only. It partnered with the Western Athletic Conference, which was launching an FCS football league in the fall 2021 season. At that time, the ASUN technically began sponsoring football, but did not start conference play. Jacksonville State University, which had been an ASUN member from 1995 to 2003, returned after spending 18 years in the OVC. The first-time members were the University of Central Arkansas and Eastern Kentucky University, which respectively arrived from the Southland Conference and Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). First, three schools, one a returning member, joined in 2021. The ASUN has added five members in the 2020s.

Members Īs of the 2022–23 school year, the ASUN has 14 full members, or schools that play almost all of their sports in the conference. It became the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2001 and rebranded itself as the ASUN Conference in 2016. The ASUN began in 1978 as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC). The ASUN did not play football until 2022, when it began play in the second level of Division I football, the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The conference is headquartered in Atlanta and mostly features universities and colleges from the southeastern United States. The ASUN Conference is a NCAA conference whose members play in NCAA Division I.

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