Conference USA Football Championship Game
| Conference USA Football Championship Game | |
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| Conference Football Championship | |
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| Sport | College football |
| Conference | Conference USA |
| Current stadium | Rotates yearly to home site of team in game |
| Played | 2005–present |
| Last contest | 2016 |
| Current champion | Western Kentucky |
| Most championships | Tulsa, UCF, East Carolina, Western Kentucky (2) |
| TV partner(s) | ESPN/ESPN2, ABC |
| Official website | ConferenceUSA.CSTV.com Football |
The Conference USA Football Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Conference USA's season champion since 2005. The championship game pits the CUSA East Division regular season champion against the West Division regular season champion. It is typically played on the first Saturday of December.
Five of the fourteen current CUSA members have played in the CUSA Football Championship Game. The overall series between both divisions is led by the East Division, 8–4.
While five CUSA members have played in the game, only four have won: Marshall and WKU of the current East Division members, and Southern Miss and Rice of the current West Division members. WKU is the current CUSA champion.
The CUSA Football Championship Game has been aired on ESPN or their affiliates since 2005.
Before 2005, each member of the conference played in a round robin scheduling to determine the champion of the conference. In this time period, Southern Miss won the most with 4 titles. Historically the winner of the C-USA Championship customarily receives a berth to play in the Liberty Bowl against a member of the Southeastern Conference.
The team the with the best overall conference win percentage will be the team that hosts the championship game. Four venues have hosted two title games—Houston's Robertson Stadium of Houston, UCF's Bright House Networks Stadium, Tulsa's Chapman Stadium, and WKU's Houchens Stadium.
In most recent years, Marshall and Rice both finished with 7–1 records in conference play in 2013, and did not play one another in the regular season, the site was chosen based on the BCS rankings at that time on December 1. Although only 25 teams were explicitly ranked, the ranking formula could be used to determine the relative rankings of any two teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Since 2014, when the BCS was replaced with the College Football Playoff rankings (CFP), national rankings have been removed from the tiebreaker process.
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