Florida Atlantic should know by the end of the month whether it will become a member of Conference USA for competition in the fall of 2013 or will have to wait until 2014.
Conference USA will hold its annual winter in Miami beginning on January 22, followed by a conference call with the Board of Trustees on January 24.
At that point Conference USA will need to finalize the schedules for the 2013 fall sports, including football.
"We're planning on being a 14-team league, but it definitely could be a 16 team league if MTSU and FAU want to join for next year," Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs Courtney Morrison Archer said.
FAU officials say they are still trying to determine whether the move to Conference USA in 2013 is the right move.
"We're talking about it. We're definitely talking about it," FAU President Mary Jane Saunders said.
Saunders and C-USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky will likely have face-to-face conversations about the timeline next week. Banowsky has scheduled visit to the Boca Raton campus, Saunders said.
In late November, Conference USA accepted FAU's application to join the league for the 2014 season, but left open the possibility that the Owls could join the conference a year sooner.
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