C-USA 2013 Football Home/Away is released

Oh SNAP!!! TULANE ON THE ROAD!!!!

And LATech and Tulsa are very drivable games. This is awesome.

Edited January 23, 2013 by MeanGreenTexan

I need to spend a few minutes coming up with a trivial reason to complain about this. Be right back.

The Conference USA's winter meetings of athletics directors were concluded this week, and the league announced the 2013 conference opponents.

Conference USA will have two divisions of seven teams each. The East will have UAB, Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, East Carolina, Marshall and Southern Miss.

North Texas, Texas-San Antonio, UTEP, Rice, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech and Tulane will be in the West.

EAST CAROLINA

HOME - FAU, Southern Miss, Tulsa, UAB

AWAY - at FIU, at Marshall, at Middle Tennessee, at Tulane

FAU

HOME - FIU, Marshall Middle Tennessee, Tulane

AWAY - at East Carolina, at Rice, at Southern Miss, at UAB

FIU

HOME - East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, UAB

AWAY - at FAU, at Middle Tennessee, at Southern Miss, at UTEP

LOUISIANA TECH

HOME - North Texas, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa

AWAY - at FIU, at Rice, at UTEP, at UTSA

MARSHALL

HOME - East Carolina, Southern Miss, UAB, UTSA

AWAY - at FAU, at FIU, at Middle Tennessee, at Tulsa

MIDDLE TENNESSEE

HOME - East Carolina, FIU, Marshall, UTEP

AWAY - at FAU, at North Texas, at Southern Miss, at UAB

NORTH TEXAS

HOME - Middle Tennessee, Rice, UTEP, UTSA

AWAY - at Louisiana Tech, at Southern Miss, at Tulane, at Tulsa

RICE

HOME - FAU, Louisiana Tech, Tulane, UTEP

AWAY - at North Texas, at Tulsa, at UAB, at UTSA

SOUTHERN MISS

HOME - FAU, FIU, Middle Tennessee, North Texas

AWAY - at East Carolina, at Louisiana Tech, at Marshall, at UAB

TULANE

HOME - East Carolina, North Texas, Tulsa, UTEP

AWAY - at FAU, at Louisiana Tech, at Rice, at UTSA

TULSA

HOME - Marshall, North Texas, Rice, UTSA

AWAY - at East Carolina, at Louisiana Tech, at Tulane, at UTEP

UAB

HOME - FAU, Middle Tennessee, Rice, Southern Miss

AWAY - at East Carolina, at FIU, at Marshall, at UTSA

UTEP

HOME - FIU, Louisiana Tech, Tulsa, UTSA

AWAY - at Middle Tennessee, at North Texas, at Rice, at Tulane

UTSA

HOME - Louisiana Tech, Rice, Tulane, UAB

AWAY - at Marshall, at North Texas, at Tulsa, at UTEP

Read more: http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/01/conference_usa_finishes_winter.html

I need to spend a few minutes coming up with a trivial reason to complain about this. Be right back.

Came out on wrinkled paper???

Those will be some tough road games, but me likey.

I'm gonna go on record right now.

The ONLY way this could have been better for us is if you switched Tulsa and MUTS.

And this year's season ticket sales will absolutely dwarf any year prior.

Cue KRAM's sarcastic post about RV not getting credit where due.

Love that we got Tulane in New Orleans!!! Roadtrip to The Rock at USM is neat and I also like getting Rice, UTEP and UTSA at home. I am really interested to see which of our home opponents bring the most fans, it wouldn't surprise me if it is UTSA.

To echo Emmitt's comment, this is the very BEST schedule I have seen us have in my years of following this program. Every single road game is close enough to drive to!

Heck yes, yall get to come to Ruston

Wow. That is wayyyyy better than the Sun Belt. Our team better get on their game or it's going to be a long season!

Hopefully that schedule helps us sway a couple of recruits here at the deadline.

Heck yes, yall get to come to Ruston

Be on the lookout for a thread about tailgating and what to do while there when it gets closer to gameday... Looking forward to it!

"Television. Conference USA has television agreements with Fox Sports Networks and CBS Sports Network, and ESPN will continue to carry the C-USA Football Championship. As one the largest BCS conferences in 2013, C-USA membership will include institutions in 12 of the Top 65 television markets, eight in the Top 40 and four in the Top 25 media markets according to Nielson. C-USA home markets next year will include a little more than 14.5 million TV households, a 43 percent increase to our current 10.1 million homes."

NORTH TEXAS

HOME - Middle Tennessee, Rice, UTEP, UTSA

AWAY - at Louisiana Tech, at Southern Miss, at Tulane, at Tulsa

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HOME- Idaho, Ball State, MUTS, Rice, UTEP, UTSA

AWAY- Ohio, Georgia, La Tech, So. Miss, Tulane, Tulsa

Very tough road schedule. At least we're back to 6 home games.

Edited January 23, 2013 by DeepGreen

Heck yes, yall get to come to Ruston

Looking foward to it. I was at the last game we had there in the Dickey era and had a good time even though we lost the game. It's a nice trip and easy to do by car.

Take out Tulsa and Tulane, and you've got six of eight conference games for some years to come. Honestly, I'm OK with what's left as long as we don't have to play a F_U school every year.

(Looks like MTSU is in the east?)

Take out Tulsa and Tulane, and you've got six of eight conference games for some years to come. Honestly, I'm OK with what's left as long as we don't have to play a F_U school every year.

(Looks like MTSU is in the east?)

Conference USA will have two divisions of seven teams each. The East will have UAB, Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, East Carolina, Marshall and Southern Miss.

North Texas, Texas-San Antonio, UTEP, Rice, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech and Tulane will be in the West.

http://www.conferenceusa.com/genrel/012313aab.html

NORTH TEXAS

HOME - Middle Tennessee, Rice, UTEP, UTSA

AWAY - at Louisiana Tech, at Southern Miss, at Tulane, at Tulsa

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i like this schedule a lot!!! good home games...drive to la tech and maybe tulsa...possibly new orleans...man...can't get any better!

Best schedule BY A MILE I've ever seen in my 14 years associated with UNT. Three in state opponents at home and some truly awesome roadies. Can't wait.

not a bad road tripping schedule at all! We get to go to both Athens' of the West (Ohio and Georgia) and Southern Miss, Tulsa, Tulane, and LA Tech, with a nice home schedule to boot! let's go 6-0 at Apogee in 2013

average drive time to 4 conference games...6 hours...damn...that's pretty awesome!!!

4 hours plus to ruston/tulsa

8 hours plus to new orleans/hattiesburg

This is awesome! Have we ever had a better schedule, considering regional competition for travel? Never! GMG!!!

For those interested in a comparison of our past schedules here is a link: http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/NorthTexas.htm

Very nice schedule and all conference games are easy drives for fans, if they do not mind interstate drives to Tulane and Hattiesburg (8-10 hrs from DFW.

Should be fun for all.

Thanks CUSA scheduler

Well, I will go on record that I was looking forward to either making a cool trip to El Paso, San Antonio, or Houston....

BUT! Having all three in Apogee!?! We get to show those guys how awesome Denton is!?

Ticket sales are just gonna go up and up and up. This is sweet.

Since we will have the benefit of having 6 home games (along with the added bonus of being solid opponents), we should easily set the all time attendance record. We almost did it this year with 5 home games. Is it reasonable to think we can top 23k in average attendance next year? We were basically at 19k this season. A 20% increase is a pretty steep hil to climb.