Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall will officially join the Sun Belt this fall.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022, 6:28 p.m. |Southern Miss is among three schools that will officially leave Conference USA for the Sun Belt Conference at the end of the academic year. Old Dominion and Marshall join the Golden Eagles in leaving CUSA. Conference USA will not stand in the way of Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall joining the Sun Belt Conference this fall, the league office announced Tuesday.
In a joint statement with the three schools, Conference USA announced it has “reached a resolution” to allow the three long-time members to leave at the end of the 2021-22 academic year. Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall hadto leave their current league — and were included in the Sun Belt Conference’s 2022 football schedule — but CUSA was fighting the move on contractual grounds.
The departure of Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall leaves Conference USA as an 11-member conference for 2022-23, though six schools — UAB, Rice, Texas-San Antonio, North Texas, Charlotte and Florida Atlantic — . Four schools — FBS independents Liberty and New Mexico State and FCS members Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State — will join Louisiana Tech, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, UTEP and Florida International to form a 9-member CUSA beginning that same year.
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