In 1996 and 1997, the opponent for the C-USA champion was a team from the Big East Conference.

From 1999 to 2005, the opponent for the C-USA champion was the Mountain West Conference champion.

From the 2006 through the 2009 playings of the game the Mountain West Conference was signed to provide a team to face either a team from the Pacific-10 Conference or Conference USA ( depending on the year ; Pac-10 teams would play in odd number years while C-USA teams would play in even numbered years ).

Since the conference was formed in 1995, the Cougars have won 33 C-USA titles.

UCF's all-time attendance record was only 51, 978 for the 2005 C-USA Championship Game versus Tulsa.

With its current seating, the largest attendance for a single game at Robertson Stadium was set at 32, 413, when Houston was defeated by University of Southern Mississippi on December 3, 2011 in the 2011 C-USA Championship in Houston, TX.

McManus played college soccer for the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2000 to 2003, where he was recognized as one of the best defenders in Conference USA ( C-USA ).

McManus was selected to the C-USA Team of the week three times, Soccer America Magazine Team of The Week twice, and College Soccer News Team of the Week once.

He was also a C-USA third team All Conference his junior year.

The accolades continued his senior season when McManus was named C-USA first team All Conference, the C-USA Defender of the Year, an NSCAA third team All-America, and a College Soccer Times All America.

This was the first time the Pirates played in the C-USA Championship Game.

In 1993, the Metro and Great Midwest conferences began reunification talks that led to the creation of C-USA.

Conference USA ( C-USA ) is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States.

In 1998, C-USA faced either the Western Athletic Conference champion or an at-large team, taking the WAC champion if the Cotton Bowl Classic had not already done so.

A view of the field during the inaugural Conference USA Football Championship | C-USA Championship Game in 2005.

Starting in 2013, UTSA and Texas State will be in different conferences, with UTSA moving to Conference USA ( C-USA ) and Texas State to the Sun Belt Conference.

They are members of C-USA until 2013 when they will move to the Big East Conference.

A new way to solve the problem is to attempt to switch to a more prominent conference, which Utah State did in 2005 ( Big West to the Western Athletic ), or Central Florida did in 2005 ( Atlantic Sun Conference to the C-USA ).

When the Gamecocks men's soccer program rejoined C-USA in 2005 after ten seasons as an independent, fellow SEC member Kentucky, the other school, left the Mid-American Conference to follow their SEC brethren.

CUSA may also refer to Conference USA ( C-USA ) or Carleton University Students ' Association.

At present ( 2012 ) only two schools, Memphis and UAB, from the Great Midwest still remain in C-USA, and as of July 2013, only UAB will remain.

Skip finished up the season 9 – 5, which included a C-USA East Division title and C-USA Champions title.

Tulane remained an independent in football until C-USA began football competition in 1996.

Since 2005, the winner of the C-USA Championship game has received the berth, with 2011 being an exception.

Marshall returned to the " Big Easy " in May and knocked Tulane out of the C-USA Tournament on the Green Wave home field, Turchin Stadium, in the C-USA Tournament, 10 – 5 and 8 – 7.

They chose not to do this for the first year of this arrangement, allowing C-USA champions UCF to play Georgia.

On February 1, 2012, Athletic Director Mack Rhoades announced that demolition work will begin at the conclusion of the 2012 season, barring the Cougars hosting the C-USA Championship Game.

The 4, 000 capacity stadium has hosted several events throughout the years including Lamar Hunt US Open Cup matches, the C-USA soccer tournaments for Men and Women, the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship five times, and the C-USA track and field championships.

UTSA will then be one of four Texas schools in C-USA, along with a fellow newcomer in the North Texas Mean Green and established C-USA programs in the Rice Owls and UTEP Miners.

One year later, they will leave the WAC for C-USA, and will be full FBS members.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.