Temple football will join the Big East for the 2012 season, while all other sports will be added for the 2013 season, multiple sources have confirmed.

The Owls will give the Big East eight football teams, along with Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Louisville, Rutgers, Cincinnati and South Florida, for the 2012 season.

Temple was a founding member of Big East football in 1991 before being booted out of the conference in 2004 for a lack of university support. Since then, the Owls have turned the program around with the help from coaches Al Golden and Steve Addazio, who have guided Temple to two bowl games and a bowl victory since Temple got kicked out.

Boise State and San Diego State will join the conference as football-only members for the 2013-14 season, while Houston, Memphis, SMU and UCF will be added as all-sports members. Navy will join for football only in 2015.

If Pittsburgh and Syracuse, which have already negotiated exits to the Atlantic Coast Conference, cannot leave the Big East prior to the 2013 season, the conference would have 14 football schools and 20 basketball schools during that year.