The Conference USA Football Championship game is an annual postseason college football game played to determine the champion of Conference USA. From 1996-2004, the champion of Conference USA was determined by regular season record. In 2005, following the division of the conference into East and West Divisions, the conference began holding a championship game between the two division winners. The team with the better regular season record serves as the host team. The first such game was played on December 3, 2005, between Tulsa and UCF. Tulsa won the first C-USA championship game 44-27. It was held at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. ... is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Tulsa is a private, comprehensive university awarding bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... Head coach George OLeary 3rd year, 19–27 Home stadium Bright House Networks Stadium Capacity 45,301 - Grass Conference C-USA - East First year 1979 Athletic director Keith Tribble Website UCF Athletics Team records All-time record 159–149–1 (0. ... This article is about the football stadium. ... Nickname: Location in Orange County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State Counties Orange Government  - Mayor Buddy Dyer (D) Area  - City 101 sq mi (261. ...

Each year, the game has been televised live on ESPN. For 2006, the game was moved from Saturday afternoon to Friday night. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

The winner of the C-USA Championship receives an automatic berth to play in the Liberty Bowl. The loser of the C-USA championship game receives a bid in one of C-USA's five other bowl berths, typically the GMAC or Hawai'i bowl. For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The GMAC Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division 1-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,646-seat Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, since 1999. ... The Hawaii Bowl is a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of Oahu since 2002. ...

Past winners

A view of the kickoff of the 2005 game

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Conference USA Champions (1996-2004)

The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped. ... Head coach Art Briles 4th year, 26–24–0 Home stadium Robertson Stadium Conference Conference USA Athletic director Dave Maggard Website UHCougars. ... The University of Southern Mississippi (USM, but frequently referred to as Southern Miss) is a four-year public university located primarily in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split championship for the third time in the 1990s. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which crowned Tennessee its national champion, the schools first since the 1950s and one year after mega star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL. The BCS combined elements of the old Bowl... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with fans singing Oklahoma! as the Sooners claimed the first national championship of the new millennium, and their first conference championship since the departure of Barry Switzer. ... For University of Louisvilles independent weekly student newspaper, see The Louisville Cardinal. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the hurricane winds blow again as the University of Miami, the team of the 80s, returned to form winning the national title. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season bucked the trend of boring national title games, providing a game that lived up to the hype. ... Head Coach Gary Patterson 8th Year, 54–20–0 Home Stadium Amon Carter Stadium Capacity 44,008 - Grass Conference Mountain West First Year 1896 Athletic Director Dr. Daniel Morrison Website GoFrogs. ... The Cincinnati Bearcats are the NCAA athletic teams representing the University of Cincinnati. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The New Orleans Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana since 2001. ... SCREW USC! The 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in a heap of controversy. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... The 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season, like the previous season, ended with another three-way tie for teams deserving a spot in the national title game, and once again fans were left unsatisfied with the result. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ...

Conference USA Championship Game (Since 2005)

• The 2005 game was advertised as Conference USA Championship Presented by Xbox 360
• The 2006 game was advertised as Conference USA Championship Presented by Aeropostale

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MVPs

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External Links

• CUSA Fans Conference USA (C-USA) Football Championship game page