For a second consecutive week, Conference USA East Division leader Southern Miss will play a primetime game on ESPN. Tonight, Jeff Bower and his Golden Eagles will tee it up against UCF at “The Rock” in Hattiesburg at 8p.m. (EST) and they will need to produce a second straight nationally-televised win if they are going to remain atop of CUSA’s East Division.

The Golden Knights (4-3, 2-1)–along with East Carolina (5-4, 4-1) and Memphis (4-4, 3-1)–are all in the thick of the East Division title hunt.

If Southern Miss is beaten by UCF, East Carolina will take over the division lead and control its own destiny. The Pirates would have the tiebreaker over UCF, which it beat 52-38, and they travel to Memphis next week.

UCF holds the tiebreaker with Memphis, as the Golden Knights thoroughly trashed the Tigers, 56-20 earlier in the season.

If Memphis were to win out, it would obviously need someone to defeat UCF. The Tigers will be pulling for USM, as ECU and USM are the next opponents up on the Tigers’ slate.

CUSA Fans has begun their 2007-2008 Conference USA basketball previews as they take a look at the upcoming basketball season. To tip-off the previews, ECU Correspondent Bubba Rosenbaum has provided his 2007-2008 East Carolina basketball preview. While the Pirates struggled and finished 12th in the C-USA standings last season, ECU looks to improve with a new head coach in 2007-2008. Check out all of the Conference USA basketball previews online at CUSA Fans today!

College Sports Fans has revealed that Southern Miss head football coach Jeff Bower has been named to their top active college football coaches list which was released last week. Bower, the head coach at Southern Miss since 1990, had a career record of 112-77-1 coming into the 2007 season and his Golden Eagles teams have won 4 Conference USA Championships and 1 C-USA East Division Championship. Bower’s Southern Miss teams have had 13 consecutive winning seasons and 9 bowl appearances in the past 10 seasons.

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Conference USA football is under the national spotlight for the next two nights as ESPN2 will air two C-USA football games in the next two nights. Kicking off on Tuesday night @ 8 pm is Marshall @ Memphis, a match-up of two teams who are struggling badly. Marshall is looking for their first win of the season and Memphis looks to defend their home turf and pickup a second win of the season.

On Wednesday night at 8 pm on ESPN2 Rice travels to Southern Miss in a game that does not appear on paper to be much of a test for the Golden Eagles. Rice comes in 0-4 with losses to 3 in-state Texas teams from the Big XII and a Division I-AA school. Southern Miss is coming off a loss @ Boise State last week, but should take care of business as the Golden Eagles will look to improve to 2-0 in the 2007 Conference USA football standings.

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