What is Next for C-USA and UTEP After AAC Rumored Expansion

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Once North Texas, Rice, UTSA, UAB, Charlotte, and Florida Atlantic officially leave C-USA, the conference will be left with eight schools:

• UTEP
• Louisiana Tech
• Southern Miss
• Middle Tennessee
• Western Kentucky
• Marshall
• Florida International
• Old Dominion

UTEP's closest university is LA Tech and Ruston is 889 miles away from El Paso. Here is the rest of the breakdown:

• Hattiesburg, MS: 1,125 miles
• Murfreesborough, TN: 1,325 miles
• Bowling Green, KY: 1,360 miles
• Huntington, WV: 1,635 miles
• Miami, FL: 1,931 miles
• Norfolk, VA: 1,982 miles

As you can tell, UTEP does not fit into the new C-USA from a travel standpoint. However, only Miami and Norfolk have large enough airports that C-USA teams fly into. The rest fly into neighboring cities and then bus into each college town. At least El Paso has an airport large enough to accommodate every team in the league.

What happens next is the million-dollar question. If you judge by the Tweets from Jeff O'Malley, the interim Athletic Director of Marshall, he makes no mention whatsoever of a commitment to C-USA.

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Edited October 20, 2021 by meangreen11