The Big Sky Conference will have a new look on the gridiron in the near future.

On Tuesday, the conference announced the addition of Cal Poly-SLO and the University of California-Davis as football-only members.

The U. Northern Colorado was in the Great West Football Conference with both Cal Poly and UC Davis in 2004 and 2005. The two schools play in the Big West Conference, which does not have football as a sanctioned sport, for all other sports.

Big Sky Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton said in a press release that the conference might not be finished with expansion.

“The landscape of college athletics has shifted even more this summer,” Fullerton said. “And with the great diversity of funding and budgets at the Football Bowl Subdivision Level, the role of the FCS may become even greater in the coming years. The FCS could become the home for many institutions. We feel like the additions of UC Davis and Cal Poly put us in front of that momentum.”

Possibilities for the 12th Big Sky school include the other three Great West members, Southern Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota, as well as FBS members Idaho and San Jose State.

Big West Commissioner Dennis Farrell said in a statement that he supports the move of Cal Poly and UC Davis to the Big Sky.

“I applaud the Big Sky Conference and commissioner Doug Fullerton for this visionary move that will further project them as one of the top conferences in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision,” Farrell said.

UNC is 2-6 all-time against Cal Poly and 1-4 all-time against UC Davis.

The two schools will likely play a full Big Sky schedule in 2012 or 2013.