Conference USA unveiled Wednesday the league’s cross-division opponents for the 2019 and 2020 football seasons. Southern Miss will play WKU and Florida Atlantic over the next two seasons.
In 2019, the Golden Eagles entertain the Hilltoppers at Roberts Stadium and also travel to Boca Raton, Fla., to face the Owls of FAU. The schools will then rotate the home and away designations for the 2020 campaign.
The cross-division opponents for the next two seasons are part of an eight-year rotation that will see every school from one division play every school from the other division home and away one time by the end of the cycle. Here is a look at the cross-division opponents for each C-USA school over the next two football seasons:
2019 Cross-Division Opponents (sites reverse in 2020)
CHARLOTTE – NORTH TEXAS, at UTEP
FIU – UTEP, at Louisiana Tech
FLORIDA ATLANTIC – SOUTHERN MISS, at UTSA
LOUISIANA TECH – FIU, at Marshall
MARSHALL – LOUISIANA TECH, at Rice
MIDDLE TENNESSEE – RICE, at North Texas
NORTH TEXAS – MIDDLE TENNESSEE, at Charlotte
OLD DOMINION – UTSA, at UAB
RICE – MARSHALL, at Middle Tennessee
SOUTHERN MISS – WKU, at Florida Atlantic
UAB – OLD DOMINION, at WKU
UTEP – CHARLOTTE, at FIU
UTSA – FLORIDA ATLANTIC, at Old Dominion
WKU – UAB, at Southern Miss
Additionally, all 2019 intra-division games will take place at the opposite location of the 2018 meeting.
Dates for all 2019 games will be announced sometime later this winter. The 2019 campaign is a 14-week playing season, beginning the weekend of August 31 and ending November 30. The league’s 15th annual Championship Game is expected to be played on Saturday, December 7.
