CONFERENCE USA

Conference USA features 12 na� onally prominent, tradi� on-rich members in East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UCF and UTEP. All C-USA ins� tu� ons sponsor football, along with several other men’s and women’s athle� c programs.

A member of the Bowl Championship Series, C-USA is rated among the top seven leagues in the na� on. C-USA has agreements in place with seven diff erent bowl games for the 2009 season. During the league’s 15-year history, 50 of its teams have received bowl bids.

The AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn., will select the winner of the C-USA Championship Game to face an opponent from the SEC. The Knights competed in this bowl game in 2007. C-USA will return to the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl this year and will send a team to face a squad from the Western Athle� c Conference. UCF made its postseason debut at the 2005 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

The league also provides teams for the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, the R+L Carries New Orleans Bowl and the St. Petersburg Bowl. Addi� onally, C-USA has partnerships in place with the Texas Bowl in Houston and the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, D.C., and could poten� ally send teams to those games as well.