"C-USA" redirects here. For the defunct American soccer club, see Chivas USA.
Conference USA
Established
1995
Association
NCAA
Division
Division I
Subdivision
FBS
Members
14
Sports fielded
19[1]
men's: 9
women's: 10
Region
Southern United States
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
Commissioner
Judy MacLeod (since 2015)
Website
www.conferenceusa.com
Locations
Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is a collegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are located in the Las Colinas business district of the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.
Contents
1History
1.12005–06 realignment
1.22013–14 realignment
1.32014–15 realignment
1.42015–present
2Members
2.1Current members
2.2Affiliate members
2.3Former members
2.4Former affiliate members
2.5Membership timeline
3Commissioners
4Sports
4.1Sports sponsored
4.2Men's sponsored sports by school
4.3Women's sponsored sports by school
4.4Football
4.5Men's basketball
4.6Women's basketball
4.7Baseball
5Championships
5.1Current C-USA champions
5.2National champions
6Facilities
7Media
7.1CUSA.tv
8Academics
9Notes
10References
11External links
History
C-USA was founded in 1995 by the merger of the Metro Conference and Great Midwest Conference, two Division I conferences that did not sponsor football. However, the merger did not include either Great Midwest member Dayton or Metro members VCU and Virginia Tech.[2] Since this left an uneven number of teams in the conference, Houston of the dissolving Southwest Conference was extended an invitation and agreed to join following the SWC's disbanding at the end of the 1995-96 academic year. The conference immediately started competition in all sports, except football which started in 1996.
2005–06 realignment
The conference saw radical changes for the 2005–06 academic year. The Big East Conference had lost several teams, and looked to Conference USA to attract replacements. Five C-USA members departed for the Big East, including three football-playing schools (Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida) and two non-football schools (DePaul and Marquette; both joined the New Big East in 2013). Another two schools (Charlotte and Saint Louis) left for the Atlantic 10; TCU joined the Mountain West (and is now in the Big 12 with several other former Southwest Conference members); and a ninth member, Army, which was C-USA football-only, opted to become an independent in that sport again.
With the loss of these teams, C-USA lured six teams from other conferences: UCF and Marshall from the MAC, as well as Rice, SMU, Tulsa, and later UTEP from the WAC. Note that UCF played in the MAC for football only; for all other sports, it was a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
With C-USA's membership now consisting of 12 schools, all of which sponsor football, the conference adopted a two-division alignment.
2013–14 realignment
In 2013, C-USA entered its next phase with the departure of four schools (Houston, Memphis, SMU, and UCF) for the American Athletic Conference, the football-sponsoring portion of the former Big East Conference. This was again the result of Big East schools leaving for the ACC, this time being Syracuse and Pittsburgh. It was announced in early 2012 that Conference USA was in talks with the Mountain West Conference about forming either a football alliance or conference merger in the future.
However, when the conferences discussed their plans with the NCAA, they were told that if they merged, the new league would receive only one automatic bid to NCAA championships; at least one of the former conferences would lose expected future revenues from the NCAA men's basketball tournament; and at least one former conference would lose exit fees from any schools that departed for the new league. As a result, both C-USA and the MW backed away from a full merger. As of April 2012[update], the likeliest scenario was an all-sports alliance in which both conferences retain separate identities.[3] However, after the MW added more members, the alliance was apparently abandoned.
For men's soccer, there was a chance that the MW, SEC, and C-USA along with the one Sun Belt member (FIU), that sponsor the sport, would play under the C-USA's men's soccer program. The MW, which does not sponsor men's soccer, would take three of the four members that offer the sport (UNLV, Air Force, New Mexico—San Diego State is a Pac-12 associate member in that sport), join C-USA's three full members that offer the sport (UAB, Marshall, Tulsa), the two SEC members already in C-USA for the sport (Kentucky, South Carolina), and the Sun Belt's FIU.[3] However, the only MW member school that ultimately moved to C-USA men's soccer was New Mexico.
For the 2013–14 season C-USA invited five new members to join their conference, with all accepting. UTSA and Louisiana Tech joined from the WAC and North Texas and FIU, (an affiliate member of C-USA joining for men's soccer in 2005), from the Sun Belt Conference. Old Dominion, which already housed five of its sports in C-USA, moved the rest of its athletic program from the CAA (except for field hockey, women's lacrosse and wrestling, with the three sports joining the new Big East, the Atlantic Sun, and the MAC respectively because C-USA does not sponsor those sports) and upgraded its football program from the Football Championship Subdivision. Charter member Charlotte returned from the A-10 and accelerated its recently established football program, which was set to begin play in 2013 as an FCS school, to FBS in 2015 with full conference rights in 2016.
2014–15 realignment
On November 27, 2012, it was announced that Tulane would leave the conference to join the Big East in all sports, and East Carolina would join the Big East for football only (ECU's membership was upgraded to all-sports in March 2013 after the Big East's non-football members, save for ACC-bound Notre Dame, announced they were leaving to form a new conference which took the Big East name, leaving the football-playing members to become the American Athletic Conference). Conference USA responded by adding Middle Tennessee and Florida Atlantic, both from the Sun Belt.
On April 1, 2013, Conference USA announced they were adding Western Kentucky, also from the Sun Belt, to offset Tulsa's departure to The American in all sports which was confirmed the next day.[4][5]
Citing financial difficulties, the UAB football program was shut down on December 2, 2014. According to Conference USA bylaws, member schools must sponsor football. In January 2015, UAB announced an independent re-evaluation of the program and the finances involved, leaving open a possible resumption of the program as early as the 2016 season. On January 29, 2015, the conference announced that there was no time pressure in making a decision regarding UAB's future membership. The conference also stated that it would wait for the results of the new study before any further discussions on the subject.[6] On June 1, UAB announced that it would reinstate football effective with the 2016 season, presumably keeping the school in C-USA for the immediate future.[7] The return of football was later pushed back to 2017.[8] The Blazers won the 2018 conference championship their second year back.
2015–present
Commissioner Britton Banowsky stepped down on September 15, 2015 to become the head of the College Football Playoff Foundation. Executive associate commissioner and chief operating officer Judy MacLeod was subsequently named interim commissioner. On October 26 MacLeod was named the conference's third official commissioner, also becoming the first woman to head an FBS conference.[9]
Members
Current members
Institution
Location
Founded
Enrollment
Nickname
Colors
Joined
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
1969
18,698[10]
Blazers
1995[a 1]
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
1961
30,803[11]
Owls
2013
Florida International University
University Park, Florida
1965
52,980[12]
Panthers
2013[a 2]
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana
1894
12,873[13]
Bulldogs & Lady Techsters
2013
Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia
1837
13,631[14]
Thundering Herd
2005
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1911
22,729[15]
Blue Raiders
2013
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
1946
29,000[16]
49ers
2013[a 3]
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
1890
36,216[17]
Mean Green
2013
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
1930
24,670[18]
Monarchs & Lady Monarchs[a 4]
2013[a 5]
Rice University
Houston, Texas
1912
6,498[19]
Owls
2005
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1910
14,845[20]
Golden Eagles
1995
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas
1914
23,079[21]
Miners
2005
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
1969
28,628[22]
Roadrunners
2013
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky
1906
20,303[23]
Hilltoppers & Lady Toppers
2014[a 6]
Notes
^UAB was a full but non-football member at two different times—1995 to 1999, when the school was independent in football, and 2015 to 2017, after UAB discontinued its football program. UAB football returned for the 2017 season.[8]
^FIU was a men's soccer affiliate from 2005 to 2013.
^Charlotte was a full but non-football member from 1995 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2015.
^Some Old Dominion women's sports use "Monarchs" and others "Lady Monarchs", as follows:
^Old Dominion was an affiliate in men's golf, women's golf, rowing, men's tennis, and women's tennis in 2012–13; full but non-football member in 2013–14.
^Western Kentucky was an affiliate in women's swimming & diving in 2013–14.
Affiliate members
In this table, all dates reflect the calendar year of entry into Conference USA, which for spring sports is the year before the start of competition.
Institution
Location
Founded
Enrollment
Nickname
Colors
Joined
Sport
Primary Conference
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
1865
26,054
Wildcats
2005
soccer (m)[a]
Southeastern
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1889
35,211
Lobos
2013
Mountain West
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
1801
28,481
Gamecocks
2005
Southeastern
^New Mexico has announced it will drop men's soccer after the 2018 season.[24]
Former members
Institution
Location
Founded
Nickname
Joined
Left
Current Conference
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
1963
Knights
2005
2013
The American
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
1819
Bearcats
1995
2005
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
1898
Blue Demons
Big East
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
1907
Pirates
2001[b 1]
2014
The American
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
1927
Cougars
1996[b 2]
2013
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
1798
Cardinals
1995
2005
Atlantic Coast
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1881
Golden Eagles
Big East
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
1912
Tigers
2013
The American
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
1818
Billikens
2005
Atlantic 10
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
1956
Bulls
The American
Southern Methodist University
University Park, Texas
1911
Mustangs
2005
2013
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
1873
Horned Frogs
2001
2005
Big 12
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
1834
Green Wave
1995
2014
The American
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1894
Golden Hurricane
2005
Notes
^Affiliate in football from 1997 to 2001.
^Houston was a founding member of C-USA in 1995 but did not begin competition until 1996 because of its commitments to the final year of competition in the Southwest Conference.
Former affiliate members
In this table, all dates reflect each school's actual entry into and departure from Conference USA. For spring sports, the joining date is the calendar year before the start of competition. For fall sports, the departure date is the calendar year after the last season of competition.
Institution
Location
Founded
Nickname
Joined
Left
Sport
Primary conference
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1831
Crimson Tide
2009
2014
rowing
Southeastern[c 1]
United States Military Academy (Army)
West Point, New York
1802
Black Knights
1998
2005
football
Patriot[c 2]
California State University, Bakersfield
Bakersfield, California
1965
Roadrunners
2007
2010
swimming & diving (w)
Western Athletic
California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State)
Sacramento, California
1947
Hornets
2013
2014
rowing
Big Sky[c 3]
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
1874
Tigers
2006
soccer (w)
Southern Collegiate (NCAA Division III)
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
1865
Jayhawks
2009
rowing
Big 12
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
1863
Wildcats
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota
1883
Fighting Hawks
2008
2011
swimming & diving (w)
Big Sky[c 4]
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado
1889
Bears
2007
2010
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
1890
Sooners
2009
2014
rowing
Big 12
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
1947
Aztecs
2013
Mountain West[c 3]
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
1794
Lady Volunteers
2009
Southeastern[c 1]
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
1883
Longhorns
Big 12
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
1867
Mountaineers
2012
Notes
^ abRowing affiliate of the Big 12.
^Football currently competes as an FBS independent.
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