The 2011
Conference USA
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football season was an
NCAA
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football season that was played from September 1, 2011, through January 2012.
Conference USA
Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are l ...
consists of 12 football members separated into two divisions:
East Carolina
East Carolina University (ECU) is a public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina.
Founded on March 8, 1907, as a teacher training school, East Carolina has grown from its orig ...
,
Marshall
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* Marshall, Saskatchewan
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,
Memphis
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,
Southern Miss
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,
UAB, and
UCF make up the East Division, while
Houston
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,
Rice
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,
SMU,
Tulane
Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...
,
Tulsa
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, and
UTEP
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comprise the West Division.
The 2011 football season marked the 17th season of the conference's existence and 16th of football competition; although C-USA was established in 1995, it did not begin football competition until 1996.
Previous season
UCF won the conference championship for the second time, defeating the
SMU Mustangs
The SMU Mustangs are the athletic teams that represent Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, United States. The Mustangs were founded in 1911 and joined the Southwest Conference, competing against Baylor, Rice, Texas, Texa ...
17–7.
Preseason
Coaching changes
*
Bill Blankenship
Bill Blankenship (born December 12, 1956) is an American football coach and former player. He was the head coach of the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane from 2011 through 2014.Eric Bailey"Bill Blankenship named new Tulsa football coach" ''Tu ...
replaced
Todd Graham
Michael Todd Graham (born December 5, 1964) is an American football coach and former player. He was most recently the head football coach at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2020–2021). Graham has served as the head football coach at Rice ...
at
Tulsa
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the U.S. state, state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population, 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ...
.
Preseason polls
No Conference USA teams were ranked though Houston, Southern Miss and UCF each received votes in the Coaches Poll, and Houston, Southern Miss, Tulsa and UCF received votes in the AP poll.
Coaches
*Tulane head coach
Bob Toledo
Robert Anthony Toledo (born March 4, 1946) is an American former college football coach and player. Toledo served as the head coach at University of California, Riverside (1974–1975), the University of the Pacific (1979–1982), the Universit ...
resigned on October 18 after starting the season 2–5 and was replaced for the rest of the season by interim head coach
Mark Hutson
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Hutson played college football at the University of Oklahoma, where he was a consensus selection at o ...
.
Regular season
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven
Week Twelve
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen- C-USA Championship Game
Players of the week
Rankings
Records against other conferences
Bowl games
Bowl Eligibility
Bowl Eligible (5)
*Houston (12–1) became bowl eligible on October 8 after defeating East Carolina.
*Southern Miss (11–2) became bowl eligible on October 22 after defeating SMU.
*Tulsa (8–4) became bowl eligible on November 3 after defeating UCF.
*SMU (7–5) became bowl eligible on November 5 after defeating Tulane.
*Marshall (6–6) became bowl eligible on November 26 after defeating East Carolina
Bowl Ineligible (7)
*UAB (3–9) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on October 29 after losing to Marshall.
*Tulane (2–10) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on October 29 after losing to East Carolina.
*Memphis (2–10) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on October 29 after losing to UCF.
*Rice (4–8) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 13 after losing to Northwestern.
*UCF (5–7) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 19 after losing to East Carolina.
*UTEP (5–7) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 25 after losing to UCF.
*East Carolina (5–7) lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 26 after losing to Marshall.
Attendance
References
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