DALLAS – Conference USA has announced its football schedule for the 2021 season.  The 14-team alignment for the 2021 campaign will again feature each team playing eight conference games, along with four non-league contests.  A total of 168 games are featured over 13 regular season playing weeks, plus two week zero contests.

2021 C-USA Football Composite Schedule.(pdf)

2021 Team-by-Team Schedules.(pdf)
 
The 2021 alignment will feature seven teams in the East Division and seven teams in the West Division.  Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion and WKU comprise the East Division, while Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP and UTSA make up the West Division.
 
Each school will play every team in its division once for six games, while playing two cross-over opponents from the opposite division.  Each team will reverse the location of its 2020 games against division opponents and will rotate in new cross-division opponents to begin a two-year intra-division cycle.  The conference is in the fifth year of a rotation between cross-division opponents that will rotate every two years until 2024, when each school has played every opponent in the opposite division once home and away.
 
The 2021 schedule complies with C-USA scheduling policies as approved by the Board of Directors.  In addition, the schedule provides the following:
 

• All teams finish their Conference schedule with two games of one at home and one away.
• All 14 teams have two home games and two away games in the first half of the Conference schedule as well as the second half of the Conference schedule; and
• There is at least one conference game in 11 of the 13 playing weeks.
• Each school has one bye week during the 13-week playing season with the exception of UTEP, which has two byes due to playing a non-conference game in week zero that has NCAA exemption.

 
It is important to note that all games are subject to date changes and some dates are expected to move in the coming weeks in order to accommodate national television.  A schedule of televised games will be released at a later date. 
 
Conference USA’s 17th annual Championship Game, pitting the champions of the East and West Divisions, is scheduled for Saturday, December 4.