C-USA Football, Basketball & Baseball blog by CUSA Fans

After having five Conference USA member schools receive bowl bids in 2006, it appeared as though it was a season to make a statement for the strength of C-USA. But with three bowl game results in, the New Orleans Bowl, PapaJohns.com Bowl and the Armed Forces Bowl, Conference USA teams are 0-3. What is worse, none of those three games were really close with Tulsa’s 12-point loss to Utah being the closest of the three games. Most surprising of all has got to be Rice’s 24-point loss to Sun Belt Champion Troy. Losing to a Sun Belt team is not something that fans of any Conference USA team takes lightly, and after Rice’s impressive 7-5 regular season and bowl berth it severely dampens one of the most successful seasons in recent memory for the Rice football program.